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What a week we had
What a week we had in Walsingham. Just a few days away but we experienced so much. So here are a few highlights of the past few days for you to enjoy on your journey home or to watch or listen from a distance at any time. Monday It was a long journey but always…
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Influential Followers
It’s the last Mass of the Pilgrimage, and we celebrate St James, Apostle. Fr Dean recounts something of the last few days, and sends us on with a challenge to be influential! Ask children what they want to do when they grow up and you get the usual list of ambitions. To be a world…
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Free Food
On Wednesday evening, as we celebrate a time of Eucharistic Adoration, we get global and celebrate the freedom God gives through gifts filled with love. “When they had sung the hymn they went out to the mount of olives.” I love olives. Although I never ate them as a child. They weren’t on our table.…
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A Muddy Cradle
On Wednesday Morning we celebrated a Mass of Our Lady of Walsingham at the Parish Church, and explored a rediscovered sense of awe and wonder. I remember as a child and teenager, during the summer months, particularly after a fall of rain, slugs would emerge from hiding places, seeking something to eat. We didn’t have…
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Hush, be still
On Tuesday Evening we celebrated the Liturgy of Healing with Laying on of Hands and Anointing with Holy Oil, as we seek the vision of the Heavenly City and a new world Stories are important. They connect us with one another. They are fragile too and can be easily abused and misused by others. Priests…
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Don’t go down there!
On the second day of our pilgrimage, we celebrate the Feast of St Bridget of Sweden, co patron of Europe. Fr Dean takes us on a journey from a festival of football, to crossing boundaries and how we discover God in surprising places It’s 2017, and Cardiff is alive with festivities as football fans in…
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A Sense of Love
In 2023, Tiffany Barber attended the Walsingham Youth Pilgrimage as a member of the Ministry Team. After many years of taking part as a teenager, she reflects on last year’s pilgrimage when she joined the Ministry Team.
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The Way of the Saints
On Saturday 12th August, a band of pilgrims made their way on foot from the Church of Llanwonno in the Cynon Valley to the Shrine of Our Lady of Penrhys in the Rhondda. Crossing the mountain path – up hill and down hill and uphill again – it’s just a few miles, but the wind…
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A Song from the Hill Country
On Saturday 12th August, many of us will walk from Llanwonno Church to the Shrine of Our Lady of Penrhys. It’s all part of our Assumptiontide weekend celebrations. When we arrive at Penrhys, we will meet with others to celebrate Mass on the mountain beneath the beautiful image of Mary “nursing Jesus for a kiss.”…
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A Well Travelled Woman
As we prepare for our Assumptiontide celebrations at St Mary’s Church in Butetown on August 13th, Fr Dean Atkins grapples with a Google Map journey and reflects on the travels of Mary, and her onward journey to Heaven where we are called to follow. Google maps tells me that the distance from Nazareth to Ain…
Enter the Mystery 