To be a Pilgrim

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Radio play by Rachel Joyce, broadcast as the BBC Radio 4 afternoon play. It won the Tinniswood Award in 2007 for best original drama. I join a two-day, late-summer water-pilgrimage along the River Avon to the Roman city of Bath — whose hot springs were dedicated to the goddess Soulis, worshipped by both the Romans and Celts alike for her gift of water. As we gather in a café in Frome town centre, to get to know each other over coffee, on the first morning, it is clear that fleeces and walking boots are de rigueur for latter-day pilgrims.

a b Welsch, Chris (January 3, 2007). "Travelers define such a pilgrimage in many different ways". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on June 8, 2008 . Retrieved 2008-03-11. beatitude". January 17, 2023. Archived from the original on April 25, 2019 – via Wiktionary. [ user-generated source] The hymn has also been sung to the melody "Moab" (John Roberts, 1870) and "St Dunstans" (Charles W. Douglas, 1917).

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Is this you? Are you ready to start journeying with intention in everyday life? If so, the path of the pilgrim at home begins right here: 1. SET YOUR INTENTION

In the epic poem Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri portrays himself as a pilgrim traveling through the afterlife realms of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Selected by Tony Benn as one of his choices on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in January 1989. [9] For, in spite of news reports to the contrary, not everyone attending the Lag Be'Omer celebrations was necessarily Hasidic, Haredi, or even Orthodox. The annual pilgrimage to Meron is open to all Jews, many of whom were enjoying a break in the general mourning period, and who were simply attending a revered spot in northern Galilee which they were unable to do last year because of Covid conditions. And a fair few were foreign pilgrims. The story starts where the previous one ended. Sara has gone to prison. Tom Wilcher, however, did not want her to go and, indeed, is prepared to wait for her to come out of prison and he will then marry her. He feels what she stole was only trivial and, indeed, she deserved the items, as he paid her badly. However, his heirs (his nieces and nephews), eager to protect their inheritance (Tom has never been married and has no children) pushed for the prosecution. Tom had spent most of his career managing the family estate. He had lived part of the time in their London property but that been badly burnt so he had now returned to the family estate in Devon, Tolbrook, where he is now living. He is under the care of his niece, Ann, daughter of his brother Edward, and his nephew, Robert, son of his sister, Lucy. Tom’s three siblings are all dead. Ann is a qualified doctor (Tom has heart problems) but he is not sure whether they are concerned with his health and well-being or are there to protect their inheritance. Tibetan pilgrim, Rewalsar Lake, Himachal Pradesh, India Modern Orthodox pilgrim in Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, UkraineThere is a great deal to take in. As Katherine, one of my fellow pilgrims, here to celebrate her 50th birthday, tells me: “This feels like being at a party and trying to form new relationships. It’s not so much a physical effort as a mental one.”