Since 2018 our Laudato Si’ Mini Pilgrimages have been celebrations of God’s Creation and of our care for the earth, Our Common Home. They began as short, seasonal, guided walks through Ilkley’s Myddelton Grange estate woodlands to the Calvary led by the then Estate Manager, the late Paul Elgar, who initiated and implemented diocesan conservation and renewal projects on the Myddelton site. 

It is thanks to parishioners at Sacred Heart, Ilkley who came on that first ‘pilgrimage recce’ that proposals for wheelchair-accessible pilgrimages to the Calvary were set in progress, as well as Laudato Si’ Pilgrimages to other environmentally-important sacred sites within our Diocese, including the Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag and St Robert’s Cave on the banks of the River Nidd at Knaresborough. 

Our most recent Laudato Si’ Mini-Pilgrimage Walk was on Sunday 7 November 2021

Feel free to get in touch via environment@dioceseofleeds.org.uk and cc communications@dioceseofleeds.org.uk with suggestions for Laudato Si’ Pilgrimages in YOUR parish; your ideas will be warmly received! 

These short pilgrimage routes are especially suitable for school groups and the Diocese of Leeds Faith in Action Awards.