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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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Living Well

As we gather at the holy well on Tuesday morning for the rite of Sprinkling, Fr Richard Green reflects on John 4.3-19 Who is old enough to remember what a telegram is? In the olden days, you could send a message faster than the mail over telegraph wires, paying by the word. Telegrams were often…
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Am I Christian?

In the first Mass of our pilgrimage on Monday evening, we celebrate St Mary Magdalen who sought the one whom her heart loved. But, first, in the homily from Fr Dean we begin at a picnic, and a little litter pic. I remember, last year, I stood on this same spot, on this same day,…
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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…