Annual Whithorn Pilgrimage
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the pilgrimage post-reformation - as such, Bishops' Conference of Scotland have designated this year's pilgrimage as a National Pilgrimage.
On this webpage you will find daily videos from our Diocesan countdown to Whithorn, alongside information about our pilgrimage (for visitors to our website, this information applies to parishioners from St. Teresa's and Holy Trinity). You will also find historical information, music and prayers relating to St. Ninian and our Whithorn pilgrimage.
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Bus Departure Times
Make sure to sign up for the Whithorn Pilgrimage today! Sign up in the church porch or contact the parish office.
Holy Trinity, Lockerbie
12.30PM
St. Andrew's, Dumfries
1.00PM
St. Teresa's, Dumfries
1.10PM
Countdown to Whithorn
1 day to go!
Bishop Frank Dougan
Diocesan Bishop
Diocese of Galloway
2 days to go!
Fr. Uchenna Odenigbo
Parish Priest
St. Teresa's | Holy Trinity & St. Luke's
3 days to go!
Lisanne Hume
St. Palladius
4 days to go!
Angela Taylor
St. Quivox
5 days to go!
Celia McQueen
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
6 days to go!
Susan McQuiston
St. Margaret's Cathedral
7 days to go!
Gabrielle Vine
St. Martin's & St. Ninian's
8 days to go!
Archbishop Leo Cushley
Metropolitan Archbishop
St. Andrew's & Edinburgh
9 days to go!
Steph Lavell
St. Teresa's
10 days to go!
Canon Pat Keegans
Retired Priest
Diocese of Galloway
11 days to go!
Josephine McCrossan
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
12 days to go!
Gillian Campbell
St. John's
13 days to go!
Fr. Stephen Latham
Parish Priest for
The Garnock Valley
14 days to go!
Pauline Ryding
St. Quivox
15 days to go!
Sean McCrone
St. Teresa's
16 days to go!
Martin McCutcheon
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
17 days to go!
Pauline Hendry
St. Mary's
18 days to go!
Fr. Stephen McGratten
Parish Priest
St. Joseph's | St. Paul's
19 days to go!
Nikita Broll
St. Martin & St. Ninian's
20 days to go!
Owen Jones
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
21 days to go!
Beatrice Gardener
Holy Trinity
22 days to go!
Jimmy Murphy
St. Quivox
23 days to go!
Patricia Templeton
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
24 days to go!
Fr. William McFadden
Diocesan Vicar General
Parish Priest for Stewartry and the Machars
25 days to go!
Louise Girvan
St. Teresa's | St. Quivox
4 Weeks to go!
Come and join us!
People of Galloway Diocese
One Month to go!
Ninian's Story
Fr. Stephen Latham
Countdown with us!
New video daily!
Road to Whithorn (1957)
You will find this 1957 film, dedicated to our Diocesan pilgrimage and St. Ninian very interesting! Mass is celebrated here by Bishop Joseph McGee - who bought the land and installed our church on the site. On the 100th anniversary of the modern pilgrimage, it's inspiring to see how Mass was celebrated on the very same shore 67 years ago, one year before our parish opened its doors!
St. Ninian's Prayer
Saint Ninian,
first to preach the Good News of Christ in our land,
hear our prayers and present them to the Lord,
whom you served so faithfully.
Gain for us a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
abundant vocations to the priesthood and religious life,
deeper faith in God’s merciful love,
stronger love for God and for our neighbour,
a renewal of Christian life in our nation.
May we imitate your fidelity to the call of Christ and your passion to share the truth He brought us, and also be
found worthy to share the heavenly reward.
Amen.
Ninian of Galloway
"Ninian of Galloway, homage we fondly pay and tribute bring.
Saint by our Church proclaimed, Scotland's Apostle named,
thy praise we sing, thy paise we sing
Born of the Scottish race, God led thee forth by grace to find in Rome
that pearl so richly priced, that faultless creed of Christ,
And bear it home, and bear it home.
Softly the Christian morn dawned o'er the lone Whithorn like kindly sun;
nobly thy loyal band, led by thy sure command,
our kingdom won, our kingdom won.
Where once thy footsteps trod, unquenched the fires of God await thy hand;
renew thy fervent care, tender to God our prayer
to bless our land, to bless our land."
A prayer to St. Ninian
Thank you Lord for the faith that led St Ninian to witness to you in a land ignorant of your ways. Thank you for his vision of a Christian community to be a light in a dark place. Thank you for his courage to pray for miracles and that a Shining House of the Lord was established on our soil. Give us such faith, vision and courage to establish the light of the Gospel, that it may shine hope in dark times and dark places. In Jesus’ name we pray.
Amen.
