The Southwark Pilgrim Way is Ready to Walk!
Phil McCarthy • Mar 08, 2023
The Romero Way, the Becket Way and the Augustine Camino
The Southwark Pilgrim Way is made up of three sections:
The Romero Way is from Southwark Catholic Cathedral to Southwark Anglican Cathedral. It has been walked by the Hearts in Search of God Project Lead Phil McCarthy
The Becket Way is from Southwark Anglican Cathedral to Aylesford Priory. It is a well established route with a guidebook written by Leigh Hatts and published by Cicerone.
The Augustine Camino is also a well established pilgrim way from Aylesford Priory to Ramsgate via Faversham and Canterbury.
Resources for the inner and outer journeys and details of how to find the walking guidance and GPX files can be found on the Southwark Pilgrim Ways pages of this website.
Rowan Morton-Gledhill describes the first pilgrimage for vocations in the Diocese of Leeds, in the footsteps of GK Chesterton and Fr Brown!
Gerard Bonner describes the first pilgrimage along the Three Altars Way in the Diocese of Hallam.
In this blog, originally published on the website of Together for the Common Good, Phil McCarthy argues for the importance of open church doors.
You are invited to join a pilgrimage taster day walk in Sussex for young people organised by the Diocese of Arundel & Brighton Ecumenical Walking Pilgrimage. NB This is not an event for existing A&B walking pilgrims. Rather we want existing pilgrims to encourage a younger generation to take part. The details are as follows: Walk for Young People aged 16 plus Saturday 25th May 2024 Start and finish at St Wilfred's Church, South Rd, Hailsham, BN27 3JG 09.30 Registration 10.00 Start walk 12.30 Prayers/lunch St Pancras, Arlington 14.00 Michelham Priory 16.00 Arrive St Wilfred’s Church Hall 16.30 Prayers and depart Please bring a packed lunch and wear suitable clothes and footwear. For more info email garyobrien4@yahoo.co.u
The Holywell Way is a Pilgrim Way for the Diocese of Wrexham from the Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows in Wrexham to the National Shrine of St Winefride at Holywell. St Winefride’s Well is believed to be the only British shrine that has a history of uninterrupted pilgrimage from the Middle Ages to the present day. The Way is north from the Cathedral to join the Wat's Dyke Way which then passes through a valley beside the River Alyn to the villages of Caergwrle and Hope. After 10 miles the Pilgrim Way diverges from the Wat's Dyke Way to visit the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Buckley, re-joining the Wat’s Dyke Way just over a mile after this. On leaving the village of Sychdyn the Wat's Dyke Way diverts from the line of the Dyke to take in a Celtic hill fort at Rhosesmor. The Pilgrim Way takes a more direct route, but the two paths coincide again shortly before crossing the A55 North Wales Expressway. After this the path follows an impressive section of the Dyke. The Way ends at the Shrine of St Winefride in Holywell, but pilgrims may wish to walk on to Basingwerk Abbey, the ruins of a C12 Cistercian monastery (1.0 miles). This is the start of the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way.
Join the Walking as 'Pilgrims of Hope' online Conference!
Details of the Prayer Walk to mark 25 years of Masses for LGBT+ Catholics and their families in the Diocese of Westminster.
View the recording of the recent Pilgrims to Rome Conference!
The Hearts in Search of God Easter newsletter with details how to register for the upcoming Pilgrims of Hope conference
I was delighted to be asked to lead a short walking pilgrimage between Llandaff Cathedral and St David's Metropolitan Cathedral in Cardiff on 14th March 2024.
