Taylor Lingle
Taylor Lingle
The Iona pilgrimage is $2,650 per pilgrim including all land and sea travel, breakfast & dinner, and lodging paid in 25 monthly installments of $100. The first payment is due upon registration. If you would like to pay in full before December 31, 2024, you will receive a $150 discount.
If you would like for the MWF to arrange airfare, we will book your airfare and invoice you separately.
Please also select a registration from our store for each pilgrim.
Dates: July 17-26, 2024
The Missional Wisdom Foundation is pleased to present the inaugural Journey Pilgrimage! This pilgrimage will trace the spread of Christianity backward in time across Scotland and England, starting in Durham, England, at the Durham Cathedral then onto the cathedral’s spiritual source, Lindisfarne, and ending on the Island of Iona, the source of Celtic Christianity in Scotland and England.
Journey Pilgrims will worship at 9 am and 9 pm as a small group prior to arrival on Iona and with the Iona Community while on Iona.
Iona Pilgrimage 2025 will focus on Creation and Creativity. Pilgrims will encounter stunning cathedrals, scriptoriums, and exquisite natural landscapes and explore questions surrounding beauty, art, and spirituality and engage in creative spiritual practice including creative writing, spiritual collage, and temporary communal art. There will also be ample unscheduled time for reflection and wandering. Journey Pilgrimage will focus on the wisdom of St. Cuthbert and St. Columba and, like all MWF pilgrimage experiences, will be rooted in Celtic Spirituality.
If you are interested in participating in this opportunity, please do not wait to register as space is limited. Once space fills, we will maintain a waitlist on a first come first served basis.
The island of Iona has long been a place of refuge for pilgrims and wanderers alike. Known as a spiritual “thin place,” Iona welcomes you in with whispers and shouts. Iona, Scotland, a Hebridean island known throughout the world as a celtic “thin place,” a place where the veil between heaven and earth is thin, is home to the Iona Community. Pilgrims worship in the Iona Abbey morning and evening, and spend the remainder of the day in unprogrammed times of rest, walking, and reflection.
Now, on that same day, two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them. -Luke 24:13b-15a
Pilgrimage is an intentional journey from the pilgrim’s context to a place of religious significance to promote spiritual growth or transformation. Pilgrimage happens in the process. It is bringing intention to where you are and receiving the grace of walking and talking.