Come and join us on Sunday 9 March

Our Gathering Lent Walk is taking place on Sunday 9 March on the SAPT and will be led by Bishop Barry and Archdeacon Amanda. It is part of the Archbishop of York’s Lord’s Prayer Tour and Faith in the North initiative. I do hope that you can come and join us for this Lent Walk in early Spring. We promise you joy, companionship, food for the body and the soul, and a good day’s walk amongst friends.

That brilliant North Yorkshire photographer Val Mather will be taking photographs of the Lent Walk along the Trail, some of our very talented local artists will also have displays on in our churches along the route, the hauntingly beautiful sounds of the Bilsdale Silver Band will accompany us once again in the grandeur of Rievaulx Abbey, and English Heritage’s Tuukka Laakso and Gemma Jones have very kindly agreed to host our service in the Abbey Nave at 4pm(approx.) and afterwards provide hot drinks and sausage rolls in the Abbey Café. It promises to be a good day of walking, prayers, food, and spiritual contemplation in the stunning early Spring scenery of the North York Moors.

Here are the arrangements for the day:

10am:       Welcome, coffee, cakes, and prayers at All Saints Church, Old Byland

10.30am:   Commencement of our Gathering Lent Walk

11.30am:   Arrival at Saint Mary’s Church, Scawton, prayers

11.45am:   Leave Scawton.

12.45pm:   Arrival at the closed Church of Saint Michael, and soup and a roll, plus (your own) packed lunch, in Cold Kirby Village Hall opposite the church.

1.45pm:     Leave Cold Kirby.

3.30pm:     Arrive Rievaulx Methodist Church for tea and biscuits and prayers in Saint Mary the Virgin Church, Rievaulx.

4pm:            Procession commences led with Cross and Banner to Rievaulx Abbey for a short service in the Abbey Nave accompanied by the Bilsdale Silver Band.

4.45pm:     Hot drinks and sausage rolls in the Abbey Café afterwards.

I’m really looking forward to this first Lent Walk event on the Saint Aelred’s Pilgrim Trail, so I hope that many of you of all faiths and none will be able to join us.

George

On behalf of the SAPT Planning Group