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All Shall Be Well Women's Pilgrimage

Updated: Jan 14

The theme for the 2025 pilgrimage is hope! 



 

May 5 - 12, 2025

                              

Lady Julian of Norwich, England

a UNESCO City of Literature


We need hope more than ever these days. Lady Julian of Norwich who lived in the Dark Middle Ages amidst plagues, wars, and an oppressive Church is the right woman for our own times. She defied all odds as the quintessential insider/outsider in her 14th Century village. At age fifty she moved into an Anchorage (a small room) attached to St. Julian's Church. She spoke a hopeful message from her window while the Church preached doom from the pulpit. She spoke about God as mother and love. She became the first woman to write a book in the English language, still in print today. She continues to inspire us in her oft quoted mantra: "All shall be well".


On Pilgrimage

We will join the "Friends of Julian" for their Festival Days to celebrate Julian of Norwich’s Feast Day. Keynote speaker, Author Dr. Hetta Howes Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife:The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women


We will stay next door to Julian’s Anchorage in All Hallow's Guesthouse which serves daily breakfast fresh from a farmer's market in operation since the 11th century. 


We will attend services in the anchorage shrine to celebrate Julians’ Feast Day.

We will attend Norwich Cathedral Evensong, a glorious place to hear the lovely young choristers from the Cathedral School. 

We will walk the large labyrinth within the cloister and have lunch at the refectory. 

We will have a personal tour with the librarian at the Cathedral Library to see some of their precious holdings like Queen Victoria's Bible! 


We will take a train from Norwich to the British Library in London to see Julian's hand-written manuscripts of Divine Love from the 14th century and visit the Treasures Gallery.


We will take a day trip with the Vicar of St. Julian's Church to the Shrine of Mary of Walsingham, lovely in May.


We will take a tour of the National Writing Center’s DragonHall.


Optional day trips: University of East Anglia’s Sainsbury Art Center and Ely Cathedral, as time permits.

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You will have free time daily on your own to explore the Fourteenth Century walking city of Norwich.


Each day we will share one meal together. Breakfast is provided and taken on your own, other meals are paid for individually.


Some evenings, a local poet/author and Julian scholar will join us in the cozy parlor for shared writing, reading and reflections.


Space is limited to six women in single rooms. Rooms are private (unless you want a roommate); three full hall bathrooms are shared. Innkeeper (a Medieval Studies Scholar) is on the premises at all times.  https://www.allhallowsnorwich.co.uk/


$1,200 Approximate Pilgrimage Cost (plus your own transportation arrangements including airfare). (Payable in two installments) 


$1,000 Early bird special price through January.

 (Payable in two installments)


NOTE: All transportation arrangements to and from Norwich are your responsibility.


Pilgrimage Leader: Charlene Vincent  has led groups to England and Thailand. Prior to leaving on pilgrimage, we will get to know one another in monthly group Zoom meetings. We will hear Julian of Norwich’s story and what makes a pilgrimage a pilgrimage. Required reading: The Art of Pilgrimage The Seeker’s Guide to Making Travel Sacred by Phil Cousineau.


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​Six Stages of Pilgrimage:

  • The Call:

  • The opening clarion of any spiritual journey. Often in the form of a feeling or some vague yearning, a fundamental human desire: finding meaning in an overscheduled world somehow requires leaving behind our daily obligations. Sameness is the enemy of spirituality.

  • The Separation:

  • Pilgrimage, by its very nature, undoes certainty. It rejects the safe and familiar. It asserts that one is freer when one frees oneself from daily obligations of family, work, and community, but also the obligations of science, reason, and technology.

  • The Journey:

  • The backbone of a sacred journey is the pain and sacrifice of the journey itself.  This personal sacrifice enhances the experience; it also elevates the sense of community one develops along the way.

  • The Contemplation:

  • Some pilgrimages go the direct route, right to the center of the holy of holies, directly to the heart of the matter. Others take a more indirect route, circling around the outside of the sacred place, transforming the physical journey into a spiritual path of contemplation like walking a labyrinth.

  • The Encounter:

  • After all the toil and trouble, after all the sunburn and swelling and blisters, after all the anticipation and expectation comes the approach, the sighting. The encounter is the climax of the journey, the moment when the traveler attempts to slide through a thin veil where humans live in concert with the Creator.

  • The Completion and Return:

  • At the culmination of the journey, the pilgrim returns home only to discover that meaning they sought lies in the familiar of one's own world. "Seeing the place for the first time . . ."

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