Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage is an approach to life that asks us to walk open-hearted towards transformation. It can be cultivated in incremental steps in our everyday lives—and sometimes in momentous journeys. Trinity leads pilgrimages to sacred sites around the world.
2024 Trinity Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
May 12–25, 2024
Join Trinity’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land in Spring 2024, led by Canon Iyad Qumri and Canon John Peterson with Trinity’s Faith Formation & Education Team.
Together, we’ll walk the steps of the New Testament and the life of Jesus in guided travel through Jerusalem, the Galilee, and Nazareth, accompanied by sacred text study and interfaith dialogue. An optional extension will be available to explore the world’s oldest operational Christian monastery, Saint Catherine’s on the Sinai Peninsula.
Pilgrims will also participate in a Fall 2023 retreat at the Trinity Retreat Center. Package includes all meals and accommodation; some scholarship funds available. There are limited slots for this pilgrimage, and so a brief application will be required for those who are interested. Priority will be given to those who have not attended a Trinity Holy Land Pilgrimage before.
Please contact the Faith Formation & Education Team at Pilgrimage@trinitywallstreet.org for more information.
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Explore Past Pilgrimages
See all pilgrimage articles2019: A Pilgrimage to The Holy Land
During Lent in 2019, 27 members and friends of Trinity Church joined together to travel on pilgrimage for 10 days through Jerusalem, Galilee, and other parts of the West Bank and Israel, We explored the sites that pilgrims through the centuries have venerated, and learned more about and from the “living stones” — the people who continue to share this troubled, beautiful, and holy land.
2018: Northern Ethiopia for the Epiphany Festival of Timkat
The religious practice of northern Ethiopia, Christian since the fourth century, is at once regally solemn and exuberantly joyful. Eighteen pilgrims from Trinity Church in New York City traveled there during the feast of the Epiphany, Ethiopia’s largest religious celebration, to immerse ourselves in this spiritual and cultural abundance. This is a brief daily record of that journey.
2017: Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, North Dakota
In August 2017 nearly 30 Trinity youth and adult parishioners and staff traveled on pilgrimage at the invitation of Deacon Brandon Mauai and the Episcopal Church in Standing Rock, North Dakota.
2017: Canterbury, England
This trip involved traveling along the medieval route known as the Pilgrims Way, which begins in the old English capital city of Winchester, and ends in Canterbury.
2016: Iona, Scotland
The Abbey building is a world all its own, with a rich history and a strong presence on the island. It's on the site of Columba's 6th-century monastery, which was a major center of learning, arts, and mission in the British Isles and Europe for hundreds of years until it's refounding as a Benedictine community in the 12th century. Ruined and now rebuilt, it is home to a thriving ecumenical Iona Community with a worldwide mission of reconciliation and justice.
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