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I'm Eirene - backstreet pilgrim.

I'm changing my image of God, one step at a time. My journey is taking me through the backstreets,

not by any main route into the city.

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'This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.'

Maya Angelou

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Today's Headline! New Novice Finds Words!

eirenepalmer

Oct 21, 2021
4 min

Today's Headline! New Novice Finds Words!

So, there I am, standing up in front of a congregation of supporters, proclaiming my intention to dedicate myself to the service of Our...

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Oct 14, 2021
3 min

The doubting novice

The week before I became a novice, I felt empty. I felt low, ungracious, raw and angry. The week when I should have been full of life and...

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Sep 30, 2021
3 min

Are you a worrier?

The gospel reading at church last Sunday was that passage from Matthew about not worrying. You know, the one which says we are not to...

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Sep 23, 2021
4 min

A Simple Life

I sometimes feel, living in our little outcrop of rock in the middle of the North Sea that other countries have so much more nature than...

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Sep 16, 2021
1 min

My three most popular posts!

I can't believe it, but backstreetpilgrim has been online now for just over a year now, and I have published fifty blogposts. Fifty! When...

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Sep 9, 2021
3 min

Holy Ground

Two weeks before we were due to lead our first ever writing retreat, we got ill. It started first as one of those tickly throats – you...

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Aug 26, 2021
3 min

Overwhelmed

This morning I was up at 7.30 am. (I know – ridiculously early for some, middle of the day for parents of toddlers) and I needed to go...

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Aug 9, 2021
3 min

Silly Monkey

We have a prayer we say every day in the Third Order which says... ‘Grant, we pray, that being knit together in community and prayer we...

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Aug 5, 2021
3 min

Here!

When I was growing up in my little wooden hut of a church with its bare walls, its serried ranks of hard chairs and its purple and white...

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Welcome!

Exploring your spiritual journey? Check out my blog

Are you a writer?

Interested in Franciscans?

To contact: backstreetpilgrim@gmail.com

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Exploring your spiritual journey?

Check out my blog