Prayer + Pilgramage

• Ecumenical reasons

  Create ties with other Christian denominations
• Pilgrimage

  A journey to a sacred place, usually as an act of devotion
• Walsingham has been a holy place since 1061
• Walsingham

  A holy place located in Norfolk, England
• Taizé was founded in 1940 by Roger Schutz
• Example of an Ecumenical monastic order

  Important religious community in Taizé
• Taizé

  A Christian site of pilgrimage in Burgundy, France
• Reasons for pilgramage

  • Act of penance
  • Follow in Jesus' footsteps
  • Visit important historical/biblical site
  • Ecumenical reasons
  • Want to ask God/important figure for something
• Walsingham was built because..

  A widow was asked by the Virgin Mary to build a replica of the house in Nazareth in a dream (where the announcement of Jesus' birth took place)
• Walsingham today is an Anglican shrine
• Taizé is an important ecumenical monastic order
• The monks at Taizé are from different Christian denominations, which is unusual