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Welcome to all visitors - Tourists, Seekers and Pilgrims

A place where your mind can be idle, and forget its concerns, descend into silence, and worship in secret. — Thomas Merton

Small Pilgrim Places are:

• Spaces for pondering, breathing, meditating, praying, and ‘being’;
• Small places, not those already on the map, well-known, or that draw crowds;
• Simple, quiet and unpretentious, with the presence of the Divine;
• Can potentially be in places of worship, gardens, ruins, open air space, holy wells, etc.;
• Welcoming and inclusive.

The Small Pilgrim Places Network:

• Consists of people who look after Small Pilgrim Places, and network supporters across the UK and beyond;
• Is mutually supportive and encourages the development of Small Pilgrim Places;
• Publicises the location and availability of Small Pilgrim Places.

More about Small Pilgrim Places

Each place fulfils its purpose of making space, keeping silence, encouraging solitude, and providing simple focus points in its own way.

They have a respected identity of their own, unique and singular - with their own history, character and atmosphere, communicating something of the ‘eternal now’, while also bringing the past into the present day and pointing towards the future

Some might describe them as holy or sacred. Celts sometimes described them as ‘thin’ places, others as liminal – ‘in-between’ ‘thresholds’ on the edge of mystery

They should have the potential to gently nudge tourists with glazed looks into becoming pilgrims with gently focused eyes

Who are they for?

• All people of goodwill, from all faiths and none, as they pause on their journey;
• The seekers and searchers and those asking questions about God;
• The bruised, the puzzled, the vulnerable, and those lacking in self-esteem;
• Those who feel in exile from their spiritual communities.

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