Hundreds gathered in Dunfermline yesterday (Sunday 18 June) for the St Margaret’s Pilgrimage.
The day started with an ecumenical service at Dunfermline Abbey before Holy Mass at St Margaret’s Memorial Church in Dunfermline. Read Archbishop Cushley’s Homily here.
Gallery
A member of the Knights of St Columba venerates the relic of St Margaret.Archbishop Cushley and Fr Francisco Liporace IVE nad Fr Simon Willis IVE, with some of the Pilgrims who walked to the Church from Lochgelly!Archbishop Cushley with members of the Knights of St Columba.Pilgrims chat with Archbishop Cushley after Mass.Archbishop Cushley and members of the Order of Malta.A religious sister visiting from Leeds with a local family.Members of The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.Local primary and high school pupils with Archbishop Cushley after Mass.Archbishop Cushley with a teacher and pupils from Holy Name Primary in Oakley.Mass at St Margaret’s Church.Prayers at the Shrine of St Margaret at Dunfermline Abbey.Fife Provost Jim Leishman MBE (foreground) attended the ecumenical service at Dunfermline Abbey.Knights of the Order of Malta at the Ecumenical Service at Dunfermline Abbey.Ecumenical Service at Dunfermline Abbey.Ecumenical Service at Dunfermline Abbey.Ecumenical Service at Dunfermline Abbey.Prayers at the Shrine of St Margaret at Dunfermline Abbey.Archbishop Cushley lays flowers at the Shrine of St Margaret at Dunfermline Abbey.Fr Syriac Palakudiyil chats with a pilgrim after the Ecumenical Service at Dunfermline Abbey.Fr Emmanuel Francis of St Margaret’s in South Queensferry after the Ecumenical Service at Dunfermline Abbey.Members of the Knights of St Columba with the relic of St Margaret at her shrine at Dunfermline Abbey.Archbishop Cushley chats after the Ecumenical Service at Dunfermline Abbey.Holy Mass at St Margaret’s Church.Holy Mass at St Margaret’s Church.Holy Mass at St Margaret’s Church.Fr Paul Lee reads the Gospel during Holy Mass at St Margaret’s Church.Holy Mass at St Margaret’s Church and the Relic of St Margaret.Holy Mass at St Margaret’s Church.From left: Fr Isaac Oshomah (Our Lady Immaculate & St Margaret in Duns); Fr Joshua Kauras (The Most Holy Trinity – Dunfermline/ Inverkeithing/Rosyth); Fr Gerard Hatton (St Teresa of Lisieux in Craigmillar); Fr Paul Lee (St Agatha, Methil); Fr Syriac Palakudiyil (St Margaret’s in Dunfermline).Holy Mass at St Margaret’s Church.From front: Fr Emmanuel Francis (St Margaret’s in South Queensferry); Fr Francisco Liporace IVE and Fr Simon Willis IVE (The Holy Family in Cowdenbeath); Fr Daniel Doherty (St Francis Xavier’s in Falkirk).Holy Mass at St Margaret’s Church.Dr László Kálmán, Consul General of Hungary in Edinburgh, chats with a Member of the Knights of Malta after Mass.Members of The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.Holy Mass at St Margaret’s Church.Holy Mass at St Margaret’s Church.
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