Category: Pilgrimages
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Pilgrimage Preparation
Dan, Lucy and I have had a very cold but fun couple of days completing our Outdoor First Aid course. We had lots of opportunities to practice possible scenarios (and also our acting skills). From abdominal thrusts to ticks, from compound fractures to adder bites, there has been lots to remember all within the beautiful…
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Frideswide Pilgrimage
Last Saturday we joined pilgrims from all over the Oxfordshire area as they travelled towards Christ Church Cathedral for the Frideswide Service. For the past two years, St Margaret’s has facilitated the shortest route taking just over an hour from our church down to the cathedral via the canal. It’s a very accesible route and…
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Pilgrimage Journey
It seems a little strange to be talking about endings as we look towards the start of the new school year. However, our minds are very much with the Phil and Jim Year 6 leavers as they prepare for high school in a few weeks and we just wanted to share our pilgrimage journey that…
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Pilgrimage From Home 2020 – Day 7
Signs of Life – Endings John 15. 9-17 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my…
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Pilgrimage From Home 2020 – Day 6
Signs of Life – The Rock 1 Peter 2. 4-10 Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in…
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Pilgrimage From Home 2020 – Day 5
Signs of Life – The Flame Acts 2. 1-4 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and…
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Pilgrimage From Home 2020 – Day 4
Signs of Life – The Cross Philippians 2. 1-11 If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or…
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Pilgrimage From Home 2020 – Day 3
Signs of Life – Bread and Wine 1 Corinthians 11. 23-26 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body that…
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Pilgrimage From Home 2020 – Day 2
Signs of Life – Water Mark 1: 1-11The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.As it is written in the prophet Isaiah,‘See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,who will prepare your way;the voice of one crying out in the wilderness:“Prepare the way of the Lord,make his paths straight”…
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Pilgrimage From Home 2020 – Day 1
Signs of Life – Light John 8. 12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.’ I have many very happy and thought provoking memories of the Pilg, but one in particular from St David’s…