Following Columba

Well, I was about to write that this is the end of the pilgrimage. However, any pilgrimage I have been on, including being Bishop of this Di...

“This is the last stage”. Columba pointed towards the city that lay on the side of the great hill many miles ahead of us. I certainly did no...

“It is important to arrive at the completion of this pilgrimage by night”, Columba said quietly as we climbed up the last of the steep valle...

We hadn’t eaten for two days. When we found a friendly inn, we sat by the fire and after a huge plate of broth, fell fast asleep. We woke ea...

[Perhaps it seems strange to be writing about Matthew’s account of The Passion, The Tomb and indeed about The Resurrection at this time of y...

A wealthy pilgrim joined us for two days. A delicate looking man, he wore fine clothes, too fine for a long pilgrimage. Some distance back, ...

We had walked off the path, to sit for a while and look at the snow covered landscape that was now piercingly painful to look at in the brig...