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Pilgrimage

A Scilly Wild Monastery?

Those who have been following our journey for a while, will know that a core group of contemplative companions have worked hard over the last few years to find a home base for Wild Monastery. In this process we have… Continue Reading …

Autumn Term Diary Dates

Wild Monastery and River Dart Wild Church have some good harvests to celebrate this autumn, in the form of an ever growing collection of offerings, gatherings and collaborations. See below for a cornucopia of this term’s dates, all gathered together… Continue Reading …

Franciscan Finish

I concluded my ‘forty days in the wilderness’ during the second week of Eastertide. On Monday I left Edinburgh for Cumbria and then concluded my ‘monastery crawl’ in a Franciscan house (above) near Worcester, before arriving back in rural Devon… Continue Reading …

A Touch of the Sacred

On Easter Monday I left the monastery on Unst and began my slow return journey to Devon. This would take me most of a fortnight, so I will divide it between two journal entries here. I also returned to posting… Continue Reading …

A Most Northerly Easter

Following Palm Sunday I went into retreat for Holy Week, first on the remote Shetland Isle of Fetlar and then on the ‘most northerly’ monastery back on Unst. Below is a little a taste of this time, which lay at… Continue Reading …

Willow Wand Sunday

I am sorry that it has taken longer than I hoped to return to this pilgrimage journal, but here at last is a glimpse of the last fortnight and a few reflections on Palm Sunday for today. I fell asleep… Continue Reading …

Mysterious Mothering

This post is the first in a short series over six weeks, during a time of pilgrimage. Daily descriptions of my journey, some reflections and photos are being offered in our River Dart Wild Church fb community. So these longer… Continue Reading …

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