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Pilgrim in Words.Pdf Forth to Farne Way A Pilgrimage in Words and Pictures With special thanks to all contributors of images and reflections. This booklet has been produced through the voluntary work of three members of the Forth to Farne Way Steering Group and the presentation is by the voluntary work of a professional graphic designer. We want this to be freely available to all interested pilgrims. However if you wish to make a contribution to the ongoing work of the Forth to Farne Way Steering The wild geese fly over Group and our ability to produce and print further support leaflets, then you the waiting cave. can make a donation by a secure online 'donate' button at On too long a journey www.forthtofarne.org they change formation, easing the strain, For more information contact like these steady few, www.forthtofarne.org or www.sprf.org.uk good Cuthbert’s chosen guard, migrating to safety, leaving Lindisfarne. Andy Raine The Route The Forth to Farne Way is a new Pilgrim Route which makes use of existing core paths with optional branches of spiritual, natural heritage and cultural importance. We hope that walking this Way will bring a sense of achievement and the opportunity to reflect on life’s journey. The Pilgrim Route’s full distance is 72 miles. © OpenStreetMap contributors Places of interest St Andrews Kirk St Abbs Harbour Scottish Seabird Centre Coldingham Priory Coastal Communities Museum Eyemouth Harbour Tantallon Castle Hutton’s Unconformity St Mary’s Parish Church, Whitekirk Burnmouth Settlements Preston Mill Berwick Ramparts and Lighthouse Dunbar Castle Berwick Bridges Dunglass Collegiate Church Goswick Sands Cove Harbour Causeway to Lindisfarne Fast Castle Lindisfarne Priory and Castle Historic Links The Way connects historic towns and villages with areas of outstanding natural heritage and coastal scenery, for a period encompassed within the former Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria which pre-dated the current border between Scotland and England. The Way helps to celebrate the historic ties between St Andrews, Lindisfarne and Durham as major centres of religious pilgrimage, with links going back to St Aidan, Cuthbert, Ebba and Baldred. What is Pilgrimage? For your own thoughts on your pilgrim journey The Oxford dictionary defines it as ‘a journey to a place of particular interest or significance’ and ‘Life viewed as a journey.’ We think of Christian pilgrimage as a journey taken to places of Christian significance often linked to lives of saints on paths they have taken, or life as a spiritual journey. So far no mention of walking, but this is the usual mode of travel. Many may walk this route and enjoy using this booklet as they pause and with all their senses become aware of God’s creation, their part in it and his presence with them. What if we are no longer able to walk this far? Many of the places en route are accessible by car and bus, but if physical health precludes even this, then take an armchair pilgrimage using this booklet, a ‘Pilgrimage in Pictures and Words.’ However you make your pilgrimage we hope and pray it will be a spiritually enriching journey. Blessing for walkers A Pilgrim’s Reflection May God be in our eyes We are called to follow making them keen to appreciate in the footsteps of the first disciples the colour and form of his designs. We are called to follow May Christ be in our feet in the footsteps of the early saints keeping them sure and steady We are called to follow on stony paths and narrow ledges. in the footsteps May the Spirit be on the wind of faithful ones today pure and strong to blow away all that keeps us from inner peace. Jesus calls us to follow in his footsteps on our journey of life. © Heather Johnston © Heather Johnston ‘Lead Thou me on Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene - one step enough for me.’ John Henry Newman The Journey Give me my scallop shell of quiet, Journey’s End My staff of faith to lean upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope’s true gage And thus I’ll make my pilgrimage Prayer of Francis Drake See ahead of you as you travel the sands and walk the pilgrim’s way the open road, the open space the sun’s warmth to cheer you on your Way. Find the space within yourself to be still, to experience the Beloved in your heart as you make space for her. © Gabrielle Ayerst ‘The World is full of the grandeur of the God’ ‘And I have felt May the God of these ruins Gerard Manley Hopkins A presence that disturbs me with the joy surround us with his strength Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime May the Christ of Aidan and Cuthbert Of something far more deeply interfused, encompass us with his compassion ‘Where’er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit, shall crowd into a shade; Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, May the Spirit of the wild geese Where’er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise And the blue sky and in the mind of man.’ empower us as we return home May the light and love of Lindisfarne And all things flourish, where you turn your eyes’ William Wordsworth shine in every corner of our existence. Alexander Pope Alpha and Omega © Heather Johnston Don’t look back along the track Beginning and end And now for rest as journey reaches its end the blasts of wind in your face The beginning is the end and final destination. but embrace the steps before you The end is the beginning And behold the sun comes out again well travelled by other pilgrims on the way In the circle of Eternity the steps of saints as they travel as though to greet you and welcome you home. © Heather Johnston to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne © Gabrielle Ayerst the centre of spiritual fire and place of love and beauty © Gabrielle Ayerst Thoughts on Creation St Andrew St Andrew was a fisherman, one of Jesus’ first disciples and was the ‘Hail to thee, blithe spirit, Creator God, reveal to us, as our journey we begin, Bird thou never wert. The beauty and grandeur in all around we see, brother of Simon Peter. He was there at the feeding of five thousand and And singing still dost soar, Exquisite detail in every tiny flower and stone, took the boy with loaves and fishes to Jesus. He is known as the ‘networking’ disciple because and soaring ever singest.’ To hear in every natural sound the gentle harmony, he introduced people to Jesus. Our hearts’ beat with Yours in rhythm and in tune. He is believed to have been crucified by the Romans at Patras in Greece on an X shaped To a skylark - Bysshe Shelley cross as he didn’t think himself worthy to be crucified the same way as Jesus. This became Kirsten Coulter the Saltire or St Andrew’s cross. Legend tells of how during the battle near Athelstaneford ‘Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap, the Pictish King prayed for victory and on seeing a saltire shape in the sky promised that St Andrew would be patron saint of Scotland if he won the battle. nor gather into barns and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not of more value that they?’ The city of St Andrews is one of the major places of pilgrimage in Scotland. In the middle ages there was a ferry run by Cistercian nuns to take thousands of pilgrims from North Matthew 6:26 Berwick across the Firth of Forth to Fife after probably selling them the pilgrim ‘Consider the lilies of the field. they neither toil nor spin, yet badges they had made. Many a pilgrim even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these’ may well have spent some time in prayer Matthew 6:28-29 before the altar dedicated to Mary in the ‘To see the world in a grain of sand Chapel of St Andrews (better known ‘To me the meanest flower that blows can give And heaven in a wild flower, today as the 'Auld Kirk') asking our Lady Thoughts that do often lie too deep for words.’ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, for a safe crossing. St Andrews Auld Kirk, North Berwick And eternity in an hour.’ ‘And ‘tis my faith that every flower Whitekirk: a medieval place of Pilgrimage Enjoys the air it breathes.’ William Blake Though there may have been a place of worship in Whitekirk since the 8th century, the William Wordsworth ‘Flocks may graze in tranquil safety’ present church of St Mary’s dates from the later Middle Ages. It may surprise many to find ‘He paints the wayside flower.’ H A Chambers such a big church in the middle of the country side, but Whitekirk was a world famous place of pilgrimage due to its holy well known for its healing powers. In its heyday it was John Montgomery Campbell ‘All we like sheep have gone astray, visited by thousands of pilgrims and pilgrims’ hostels were built to accommodate at least ... ‘he goes ahead of them and theh sheeph We’ve turned everyone to his own way’ some of them. Among the pilgrims were James IV and Aeneas Piccolomini, the future Pope follow him because they know his voice... Pius II. Sadly today the exact place of the Holy well is no longer known.
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