Joseph Shaw has written a series of posts about the walking pilgrimage from Ely to Walsingham which was held by the Latin Mass Society for the first time this year: See his posts from 20-22 August. He also has plenty of photos at his flickr set. Above you can see Fr Alex Redman walking in the pilgrimage in cassock, cotta and stole. Hardnut! If you have done a walking pilgrimage, you will know what I mean. Fifty miles might sound simple but it is enough to do your feet in comprehensively if anything is slightly out of kilter, and any minor discomfort can magnify over the miles.
Paul Smeaton got the idea going for the Pilgrimage so congratulations to him for pulling it off and to the walkers for doing the distance. You can bet that this will become a much loved and cherished tradition among them.
If you do actually walk for a reasonable distance in a spirit of penance and prayer, there is something very moving about reaching the pilgrimage destination. Here the pilgrims have reached the Slipper Chapel:
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@ Father Finigan
I wore a white rose, and carried a bodhrán when I walked into Walsingham on tour. I remember that it brought a smile to a villager's face at the time, perhaps as a man I should have worn a red rose.
In the 1987/88 football season I was working as a site agent in Albury Street , Deptford SE8. This early Thames Gateway regeneration project involving English Heritage and the Church of England's Guardian of Walsingham, the late Canon David Diamond of St Paul 's SE8, stimulated my creative and artistic talents.
Midway through the underpinning and demolition contract, that I was supervising for PGM developments, I had a big dream in which Our Lady of the Assumption called me "Vesper". I have used this nom de plume ever since.
Canon David Diamond was old school Oxford Movement who didnot support the Ordination of Women. When I converted to Rome , Father Diamond gave me a giant Rosary which I gave to Father Tony Pyle at Our Lady of the Rosary Blacken.
Canon David Diamond once thanked me for my qualified professional Planning & Development work in relation to the CRITICAL Deptford Power Station & Creekside planning brief.
Addey & Stanhope School's Steve Pratt can confirm that Canon Diamond also used my poetry to invite HRH the Prince of Wales to the opening of St Paul 's Court in the 1987/88 football season.
SONGS & DREAMS FOR SAD SISTER DEPTFORD A Deo et Rege : PART 6
SE8 MATE
DIRTY SMELLY DEPTFORD.
HOW WE LOVE YOU SO.
THE POWER THAT ONCE CAME FROM YOU.
HAS LONG CEASED TO FLOW.
ARCHER'S DREAM NO LONGER DWARFED.
16 ACRES FREE.
A FUTURE KING FINDS HIS LAND.
AND PLACE IN HISTORY.
Canon Diamond and I are both recorded as being professional Thames Gateway contributors to the Civic Trust report which preceded Deptford City Challenge.
Our Lady of the Rosary ( http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/2010/08/gaudeamus-omnes-in-domino.html ) pray for us in BNP leader Nick Griffin MEP's EU/GLA/LDA/ODA NEO-NAZI DEVELOPMENT TIMES Amen
PAPA RATZI ( http://www.thepapalvisit.org ) ORA PRO NOBIS!
Great photos of the pilgrimage - very impressive to see some bare-footed pilgrims as well as the priest in cassock, cotta and stole.
Fifty miles in 3 days is no mean feat!
The formidable Sr Hyacinthe OP has also been running this same pilgrimage for at least three years.
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