...and at the weekend a glorious pilgrimage there. We gathered at the Anglican shrine and a service of blessing and sprinkling with water from the well...this was very beautiful. The message was one of healing and hope, and also of placing trust in God, of just wanting to be with him. He made everything, and he made and loves us, and we are his children. There was a timeless quality to the day, a sense of a link with all the pilgrims down the centuries and with the origins of the shrine... "The water was there before you were".
A procession, led by the Cross and acolytes, to the Catholic shrine, a picnic lunch, meeting friends and lots of talk...time for a visit to the beautiful Slipper Chapel, and then Mass in the barn church. The Mass was concelebrated by lots of priests from the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, and was in the Ordinariate form. A good day.
You can read about this and also read Auntie's page in the latest issue of The Portal...
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