{"id":71249,"date":"2021-05-24T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/bishop-anne-completes-st-magnus-pilgrimage\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:29:41","slug":"bishop-anne-completes-st-magnus-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/bishop-anne-completes-st-magnus-pilgrimage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Anne completes St Magnus pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bishop Anne Dyer\u2019s pilgrimage in Orkney comes to an end today, with a visit to St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney has walked the St Magnus Way over the past week, as part of the \u00a0\u2018Season of Pilgrimage\u2019 in the Scottish Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n

The 58-mile route is a long distance pilgrimage route through mainland Orkney, established in 2017 to mark the 900th anniversary of the death of St Magnus, Orkney\u2019s patron saint. The journey is intended to give time and space for reflection.<\/p>\n

Bishop Anne was joined by fellow pilgrims, pictured above, who walked the route alongside her, and a series of themes were considered, discussed and contemplated each day: peace, loss, growth, change, forgiveness and hospitality.<\/p>\n

The pilgrims arrived at their final destination in Kirkwall on Saturday, a little weary and with a few aches and pains, but with their spirits lifted.<\/p>\n

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In her daily blog, Bishop Anne wrote: \u201cAfter six days together, our pilgrim band was very relaxed with each other. Some of us had begun on Monday as strangers, but it is not possible to pray together so often, to share stories and food, and not become close. Today we laughed often and very deeply \u2013 what a healing experience this was.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my mind I thought of all those who I have carried in prayer through the week \u2013 the sick, the bereaved, the confused and anxious. I thought of the churches in the diocese and their priests, and those churches without one. I thought of my family at home, so generous in encouraging me to do this, and friends who have prayed (and some walked) with me where they are. My desire was that everyone was caught into the pilgrim\u2019s blessing that was mine today.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Kirkwall I swapped my back-pack for a crozier, and we gathered as six by the door to St Olav\u2019s church \u2013 the place where Magnus\u2019 bones rested waiting for the cathedral to be completed. Then, to my very great surprise, from around the corner appeared a very good number of the congregation of our St Olav\u2019s church in Kirkwall. They had come to walk with us the final 400 yds to the cathedral \u2013 to accompany us on our spiritual homecoming. My heart was full.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next day, Bishop Anne led worship and preached at St Olav\u2019s in Kirkwall for Pentecost, and on Monday made a visit to St Magnus Cathedral, which was closed to the pilgrims on Saturday because of coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n

All of the Bishop\u2019s blog posts are available to be read on the Diocesan website here https:\/\/aoepiscopal.scot\/tag\/other\/?fbclid=IwAR2bkMxmrb0yyX6RwZJGeI9LPuelgg_gI3On2lYvcsazQdAu89mYwafqXP0<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bishop was also interviewed by Radio Orkney<\/a> (at the 12min 30sec mark) and her pilgrimage was the subject of her most recent column in the Press & Journal<\/a> newspaper (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bishop Anne Dyer\u2019s pilgrimage in Orkney comes to an end today, with a visit to St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall. The Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney has walked the St Magnus Way over the past week, as part of the \u00a0\u2018Season of Pilgrimage\u2019 in the Scottish Episcopal Church. The 58-mile route is a long distance […]","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-71249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71249","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=71249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73235,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71249\/revisions\/73235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}