WALK TO EMMAUS

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The Walk to Emmaus #6 was held 20^th-23^rd February at St Josephs College, Up Holland, near Wigan. Walk to Emmaus is the Methodist equivalent of Cursillo, and before the weekend they made two requests of Chester Cursillo. The first was to provide a Music gofor, which Steve Clapham from Offerton kindly agreed to do. The second was to join their fourth day community on the Saturday evening and at the closing service on the Sunday.

A group of us joined the community on the Saturday evening for their Eucharist service where we prayed for each participant and staff member by name. At the end of the service we greeted the participants with a candle-lit procession then we left them to continue with their own candle-lit service.

A further group joined the community for the closing service on Sunday afternoon.

St Josephs college was built in the eighteen hundreds as a seminary and is now partly a conference centre. In this magnificent holy building on this particular weekend was not only a Walk to Emmaus weekend, but a Roman Catholic Cursillo training day as well, as St Josephs is the home of Roman Catholic Cursillo in the UK.

At the Eucharist we shared with Methodist, Roman Catholics, and Anglicans who had all experienced the joy of a Cursillo weekend. We were all able to join together as one body in the name of Christ. Denomination didn't matter. It was a most moving experience, one we look forward to repeating in the future. We are all pilgrims together walking the way of the Lord.

Sylvia Craddock

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