Pilgrimage:
We are fortunate to have several routes crossing through our presbytery area
Pilgrimage is becoming an increasingly popular activity.
With a love for the outdoors and a desire to connect with the past new walkers or pilgrims are finding this an invigorating way of engaging with others, nature and spirituality.
We are fortunate to have several routes which cross through our presbytery area.
Why not design a pilgrimage style walk around your town or area?! History * Nature * Hospitality * Silence * Togetherness * Exercise * Companionship…
St Cuthbert's Way
Melrose to Lindisfarne
62 miles
This ancient pilgrimage route starts and crosses through our Presbytery. Starting in Melrose it finishes at Holy Island. Several of our churches are engaged in welcoming pilgrims who walk the way. https://www.scwchurches.co.uk/
St. Cuthbert’s Way Pilgrimage -April 2024
Notes from the Mission Officer accompanied by friends
Day 1 Melrose to Harestanes Visitor Centre
Eager to get underway
We eat up the first few miles
Until we pause
and look at from where we came,
where we are going
and what’s around us!
Hills, river, trees.
Mud, mud, mud
Searching for loos
Reminiscing about absent friends
Talking about churches
Mud, mud, mud.
Notice the blossom
Smell the fragrance of the sweet gorse
And the wind on our faces
Mud, mud, mud.
Cuthbert, an Irish monk keen to share Jesus with others wandered in these hills seeking solitude rather than prestige or power.
From Forth to Farne
North Berwick to Lindisfarne
72 miles
https://www.britishpilgrimage.org/portfolio/forth-to-farne-way
Next year we hope to be walking the Borders Abbey Way.
