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Southwest Scotland Ordinariate Group

AST YEAR we decided about ten for Mass, but this
L Lto organise a week’s nudges up to twenty during
Pilgrimage to Walsingham. the Summer when we enjoy
As has become our practice welcoming visitors to the area.
before travelling, we prayed
the Itinerary for departing In the last twelve months we
pilgrims at the start of the have been celebrating Mass
long trek south to Norfolk. A on the First Sunday of the
small group of only six we set month at Stonehouse Mill,
off with various reasons for Fr. Simon, and Sarah’s home.
going and a high expectation On the third Sunday Mass is
for a time of reflection, offered at a member’s house
contemplation, and worship. in Rockcliffe some fifty miles
from Whithorn. We are a
We were not disappointed. well-travelled group committed
For some it was a first visit to our distinctive liturgy and
to the Shrine of Our Lady of members regularly cover
Walsingham, but it was a first distances to Mass ranging 64,
for us as a group. We stayed 72, 100 miles and 120 miles
at the Dowry House in the respectively, on return trips!!!
village. Our goal was simple;
to settle into familiarising This Lent, we have been
ourselves with the Offices of reading and studying Catholics
Morning and Evening Prayer In Exile – Biblical Wisdom for
and offering daily Mass, both The Journey Home by Scott
according to Divine Worship. Hahn & Brandon McGinley.
The book was selected in
The programme followed the response to a request from a
routine of the Shrine but member for a recommendation
also included a day out to for a book for Lent, selected
Ely Cathedral, exploring for being a scripture- based
the Abbey grounds, the response to a spiritual situation
village, walking the Holy of feeling “out of it” in the
Mile and evenings playing world as Catholics.
pool and enjoying a glass
or two of sherry with The book demonstrates this
convivial conversation. We condition as one which we
all returned home with a should embrace to make our
firm intention to go again. Whithorn. On way to our true home in heaven
completion we as citizens of the city of God. It
Our routine for Mass in go for lunch also speaks to those who may
Dumfries and Galloway at St Ninian’s feel on the margins striving
has been a Sung Mass Tea Room to be faithful in the world but
every Wednesday at at the Isle of not of it. In the words of the
10.30am followed by Whithorn or authors, “The aim of this book,
Rosary Prayers at St the Whithorn therefore, is to go on a pilgrimage”
.
Ninian and St Martin Story Café. So, if you do feel “out of sorts”
of Tours in the centre of We number but do not want to step out on