Who Am I? A Tourist, a Pilgrim, a Peacemaker?

Amid ongoing conflicts, it can be difficult to recognize the positive impact we are making on humanity. Reflections are necessary to remember our origins and the importance of our role in the world. Because we do exist for something transcendental, don’t we? In a world where it seems all the answers have been given, we have decided to embark on a journey to recall the meaning of the pilgrim as a peacemaker. The objective of this article is to develop an interpretative analysis of the origin of the pilgrim as a spiritual traveler with an apostolic and missionary quest. Starting with the figure of a pilgrim who was a stranger in another land and became a reference point for Christianity through his dedication and service, Jesus is the pilgrim of peace as well as a servant and traveler inspired and moved by love, whose legacy we have inherited to understand who we are and why we move in faith. The spiritual traveler, seeking meaning, emerges as a powerful voice of dissent against rising systemic injustice. That is why the authors go back to Christian mysticism as the foundation of the transformative experience of pilgrimage as a rite of passage, to explain how, from a Christocentric perspective, religious tourism has reopened the way for individuals to reconnect with the sacred, with their inner selves, so that they return to the origin of their mission: to be peacemakers.