[Ely Events] Little Gidding Pilgrimage 14 May 2011

[Simon Kershaw]

  LITTLE GIDDING PILGRIMAGE


    Saturday 14 May


/For nearly 400 years p//ilgrims have been drawn to Little Gidding in 
the north of the diocese of Ely,
ever since the saintly Nicholas Ferrar and his family lived there in the 
early seventeenth century./

You are warmly invited to join the annual Pilgrimage to Little Gidding
commemorating the life and witness of Nicholas Ferrar

Join the celebration of Holy Communion in Leighton Bromswold Church
whose restoration was funded by George Herbert and directed by the Ferrars.
The preacher is Ronald Blythe, the distinguished author and Church Times 
columnist
('Word from Wormingford'), and the service is led by Frances Ward, the 
Dean of St Edmundsbury

Share lunch with fellow pilgrims at the historic Green Man at Leighton 
Bromswold

Enjoy the gentle walk through the Huntingdonshire countryside
from Leighton Bromswold to Little Gidding
(about five miles along the country roads, with three short stations for 
prayer and rest)

Gather round the tomb of Nicholas Ferrar for prayer

Sing Evening Prayer at Little Gidding 'where prayer has been valid'
(preacher: Donald Allister, the Bishop of Peterborough choir: the 
Hurstingstone Singers)

Delight in Tea and conversation at Ferrar House


    All welcome!

For more details see www.littlegidding.org.uk/pilgrimage 
<http://www.littlegidding.org.uk/pilgrimage/>


      Timetable for the day

10.30am: Pilgrimage Holy Communion at Leighton Bromswold Church
12 noon: Pilgrims' Lunch at the Green Man
1pm: Start of Pilgrimage Walk: First Station at the Hundred Stone at 
Leighton Bromswold
2pm (approx): Second Station at Salome Wood
2.45pm (approx): Third Station at Hamerton (refreshments and toilets 
available)
3.30pm (approx): Fourth Station at Steeple Gidding Church
4pm: Final Station: Prayers at the Tomb of Nicholas Ferrar at Little Gidding
followed by Pilgrimage Evensong
5pm: Tea at Ferrar House


/Whilst we would be delighted if you can join us for the whole 
pilgrimage day we appreciate that not everyone will be able to walk the 
five miles from Leighton Bromswold to Little Gidding. You are welcome to 
join us at a later stage, for example for the final half-mile from 
Steeple Gidding, or else at Little Gidding itself./


-- 
Simon Kershaw
simon at kershaw.org.uk
Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire

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