Well, it is rare, even for me, to be this late. But here I am writing the ‘we are home’ blog on the Pilgrimage blog site three weeks after we arrived home and not the one week that I had planned! I suspect that many of us who were on the Diocesan Pilgrimage have been … More Three weeks later…
I am not by choice a very early riser but I know that many of my fellow Pilgrims had been getting up early to see the sunrise and I had seen it a couple of mornings too. On this blog we have been pleased to show some people’s sunrise photographs already but on this last morning … More Day 8 – 29 February: Morning
Having arrived back from Nazareth quite early some of us found time for a swim and packing before dinner. The thing about packing to go home is that at least you know that everything that is in the room has to go home. It isn’t so hard to think about as choosing what to pack … More Day 7 – 26 February: Evening
After a really nice Sunday lunch – and I do mean a Sunday lunch – soup, followed by spaghetti Bolognese. Many of us thought that that was it but we were then served beef and roast potatoes and carrots! Then we were also served the most magnificent coconut macaroons. So we were all really rather … More Day 7 – 28 February: Afternoon
It was an early start to the day again to the day as before we were to be at Christ Church Anglican Church in Nazareth we were to visit the Greek Orthodox Church in Nazareth. It was good to share briefly in their worship and to see where Mary’s Well would have been and to … More Day 7 – 28 February: Morning
Martin Swindlehurst has been writing poems regularly whilst travelling around the Holy Land. Some of them have already been featured on previous blogs and here are a couple more. Land of Hope Surrounded by despair Enemy at the door A shroud of darkness But within a glimmer of light A kindness done A child … More More reflections on the journey
On the evening of Day 4, the Pilgrims celebrated evening prayer at St George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem – more details here. The Revd Canon David Longe, who is now Archbishop Soheil’s Chaplain and who was ordained and served his curacy in the North Lambeth Team Ministry in the Diocese of Southwark, was with the Pilgrims that night … More Looking back to Jerusalem
Following our swim and a quick change we were all ready for our dinner and then onto our usual meeting. Our meeting on Saturday evening enabled us to once again reflect together on the many things that we had seen, learned and experienced during the day. We had been to quite a number of places … More Day 6 – 27 February: Evening
After lunch we went just around the corner to Caesarea Philippi to the site of the Hermon Springs – the waters that feed the River Jordan – where we all renewed our baptism vows. It was great to see everyone getting involved especially as Bishop Christopher sprinkled us with water from the Springs. Everyone wanted … More Day 6 – 27 February: afternoon
The Pilgrim’s journey on Saturday was, as the Dean would say, in Jesus’ parish. We were all around the Lake in the morning and then up to the Golan Heights. Our day began with the drive to the area of Tabgha and our first stop on the way was the Mount of the Beatitudes and … More Day 6 – 27 February: Morning
Southwark Diocesan Pilgrimage 2016 