Within a congregation there will be different preferences, based upon age and temperament, and upon the varying stages reached by individuals in their spiritual pilgrimage.

So Virginia, too, embarks on a spiritual pilgrimage, hoping that "the abstract - relationships, work, religion - might regain the substance of the concrete."

The experience was, for many, the climax of an 11-day "spiritual pilgrimage" to Egypt.

Last year our reviewer, Francisco Goldman, called the result an "often satiric and hyperactive tale of spiritual pilgrimage."

The faithful of Bologna organized a nationwide "spiritual pilgrimage" to the pope and the tombs of the apostles in 1873.

But he does keep his word, disappearing for long stretches of this often satiric and hyperactive tale of spiritual pilgrimage.

At the ecumenical level, a similar spiritual pilgrimage is made at Taize in France.

But it can also be misleading, for its strength is partly reinforced by the Cardinal's self-confidence and the place he had reached on his spiritual pilgrimage.

His studies started him on a spiritual pilgrimage.

A spiritual pilgrimage used to mean having to leave the house, but with the Web getting more metaphysical, seekers can pursue truth right at their desks.