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pilgrimage

Brigid’s Birthday Tea

Saturday 1st February, 2-5pm at St Barnabas Church, Brooking, Dartington (parking available) Drop in ‘high tea’ from 2-3.30pm & arrive/stay for ceremony at 3.30pm. A gentle get together to start our year in community & to celebrate the first signs of spring,… Continue Reading …

Spring Diary Dates 2025

From January onwards new shoots continue to unfurl in our Wild Monastery and Wild Church, including the next steps of our new project at Brooking Church, Dartington. Events start with a launch party at the beginning of February, then ‘second… Continue Reading …

What is Wild Monastery?

Folks contact me regularly to ask what our wild monastery and wild church is about and what is on offer. Well, it keeps emerging and as a creative person that’s what I find life giving. We are not an institution… Continue Reading …

A Scilly Wild Monastery?

Update: since this post was written much has changed… again! As I write now, just over a year later, our hopes for a Scilly Wild Monastery have been let go. The property on St Agnes turned out to have significant… 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 …

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 …

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