Posts by John Holgate

Week 11 – Prayers and Reflections

Download these prayers as a pdf here. In this eleventh, penultimate, week of our pilgrimage, we pass through Oxford and Gloucester, places rooted in tradition, yet where change is present. We contemplate the roots of our own faith and how they can sustain us but not hold us back as we move forward in our ever-changing lives. As you walk this week,…

Week 8 – Prayers and Reflections

Download these prayers as a pdf here. In this eighth week of our pilgrimage, we pass through Canterbury, eventual home of worldwide Anglicanism, and contemplate about the call of those who follow the ways of God. As you walk this week, think about those situations that obliged you to choose between the ways of the world and the ways of God. Consider…

Week 5 – Prayers and Reflections

Download these prayers as a pdf here. In this fifth week of our pilgrimage, one of our stops is Lindisfarne, an island also called Holy Island, where we find both a castle and a priory. In this place, monks and other people living the religious life reflected upon the nature of the Divine for centuries. As you walk this week, think about…

Week 2 – Prayers and Reflections

Download these prayers as a pdf here. In this second week of our pilgrimage, we are heading towards Bath and Glastonbury, and we contemplate the arrival, persistence, and development of Christianity in Britain, even in the face of struggle and oppression. As you walk this week, think about your own story of faith development. Consider how your faith has changed and grown over…