A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance. I read these words on Wikipedia as I searched on Google for pilgrimages. In May 2011, I wondered if I had been on a pilgrimage every Tuesday for seven months while travelling to the Ignatian Centre in Glasgow? ( http://www.iscglasgow.co.uk/ )
Yes, I thought, in a way I had, because I had become much more aware of God and saw him in the everyday things and people around me. I thank the team at the Centre who helped me through the Growth in Prayer and Reflective Living course and I recommend it to everyone.
Through this experience, I had grown in prayer and I yearned to do something beautiful for God.
After seeing the film “The Way” about the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, this yearning grew and my mind was in searching mode; I knew that I needed to go on some kind of journey.
My pilgrimage hadn’t ended in Glasgow. It had just begun. I couldn’t afford to go to France and Spain to walk the Camino so where could I go? I prayed and asked God to show me my own ‘Camino’ and then the thought came to me. I have a bus pass and I haven’t been round our beautiful diocese of Galloway. Yes! Thank you Lord. I could visit each church and celebrate Mass and pray for family and friends who are living with cancer.
My pilgrimage took me to forty-seven churches of the Galloway Diocese, plus masses in both a Benedictine Monastery and a Retreat Centre, and these are detailed in the index above in ten parts.
As well as reading about my pilgrimage, if you wish you can follow my blog by clicking here.
Yes, I thought, in a way I had, because I had become much more aware of God and saw him in the everyday things and people around me. I thank the team at the Centre who helped me through the Growth in Prayer and Reflective Living course and I recommend it to everyone.
Through this experience, I had grown in prayer and I yearned to do something beautiful for God.
After seeing the film “The Way” about the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, this yearning grew and my mind was in searching mode; I knew that I needed to go on some kind of journey.
My pilgrimage hadn’t ended in Glasgow. It had just begun. I couldn’t afford to go to France and Spain to walk the Camino so where could I go? I prayed and asked God to show me my own ‘Camino’ and then the thought came to me. I have a bus pass and I haven’t been round our beautiful diocese of Galloway. Yes! Thank you Lord. I could visit each church and celebrate Mass and pray for family and friends who are living with cancer.
My pilgrimage took me to forty-seven churches of the Galloway Diocese, plus masses in both a Benedictine Monastery and a Retreat Centre, and these are detailed in the index above in ten parts.
As well as reading about my pilgrimage, if you wish you can follow my blog by clicking here.