Saturday, April 11, 2009

Pilgrimage versus Mission - What's the Difference?

What do you call Religious Travel? Well there are several terms which apply to it:
  • Pilgrimage - Often a long journey where you follow a certain path or visit different places all with a religious significance. It can also mean visiting only one place of great importance.
  • Missionary - Travel not for pleasure but instead for the purpose of spreading a religious message and converting other people to that religion.

7 comments:

networkmarketer said...

Mission is rather a personal vocation travel if not affiliated with any religious group somewhat similar with pilgrimage. But for me, whatever lessons I learned during an attended pilgrimage may be shared in many ways (also a part of mission.)

William said...

Don't your definitions answer your own question? It seems pilgrimage is for the sake of you while a mission is for the sake of others.

ny web design said...

Thanks for sharing this. All these years I thought that pilgrimage and missionary means the same because from what I understood before, when you work as a missionary, you undergo pilgrimage at the same time.

health news said...

Very Big Different between both. Missionary means you have a target. And Pilgrimage is differ..

But The Post is nice

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