The \u2018Season of Pilgrimage\u2019 in the Scottish Episcopal Church is being marked next week in the Diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney, where Bishop Anne Dyer will walk the St Magnus Way.<\/p>\n
The 58km route is a long distance pilgrimage route through mainland Orkney, established in 2017 to mark the 900th<\/sup> anniversary of the death of St Magnus, Orkney’s patron saint. The journey is intended to give time and space for reflection.<\/p>\n Bishop Anne was supposed to be joined by Bishop Dorsey McConnell of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, but he has not been able to travel because of pandemic restrictions. However, others closer to home who planned to make the journey with Bishop Anne are making their way to the island to walk alongside her.<\/p>\n Bishop Anne will be blogging every day, on the Diocesan website<\/a>.<\/p>\n She has also written about her pilgrimage in her latest column for the Press & Journal<\/em> newspaper, saying: \u201cIn our sharing of conversations, in the telling of stories, in the careful listening that comes when we really pay attention to each other, I hope to find encouragement and new perspectives, friendship and laughter.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of this will take time, and it is the time I am giving to this pilgrimage that seems like the most important thing. For a few days I can lay down some of the weight of the responsibilities I carry day by day in Aberdeen and be renewed on the rolling hills of Orkney.<\/p>\n \u201cAs the days warm and lengthen, what a wonderful time for us all to get out and walk, especially with others. And as we go, there will be so much we can be learning about ourselves and the world.<\/p>\n \u201cOne thing that marked the pilgrims \u2013 they did not return home unchanged. I hope this is true for me.\u201d<\/p>\n The full article appears here<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n Bishop Anne also appeared on BBC Radio Orkney to talk about the reasons for her pilgrimage, and what she hopes will come of the experience. The interview is available on the ‘listen again’ facility, at the 12min30sec mark, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Bishop\u2019s schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n Sunday 16 May: Holy Communion, St Mary\u2019s Stromness For more information on the St Magnus Way, go to the official website<\/a> There is also a two-minute video guide on YouTube here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u2018Season of Pilgrimage\u2019 in the Scottish Episcopal Church is being marked next week in the Diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney, where Bishop Anne Dyer will walk the St Magnus Way. The 58km route is a long distance pilgrimage route through mainland Orkney, established in 2017 to mark the 900th anniversary of the death of […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMonday 17 May: Walking Day 1 \u2013 Egilsay
\nTuesday 18 May: Walking Day 2 \u2013 Evie to Birsay
\nWednesday 19 May:Walking Day 3 \u2013 Birsay to Dounby
\nThursday 20 May: Walking Day 4 \u2013 Dounby to Finstown
\nFriday 21 May: Walking Day 5 \u2013 Finstown to Orphir, and in the evening, blessing of the St Magnus Way toilet
\nSaturday 22 May: Walking Day 6 \u2013 Orphir to Kirkwall
\nSunday 23 May: Holy Communion, St Olaf\u2019s (Pentecost)
\nTuesday 25 May: Return to Aberdeen<\/p>\n