Clonmacnoise

We enter the gates

Of Clonmacnoise.

Ahead of us are

Centuries of life in the Spirit.

You have a choice, the leader says,

Go in pilgrim or go in tourist mode.

Either way is fine, but make your intention.

I walk the stones

Of the pilgrim way.

I touch the high cross

That has stood there for 1000 years.

How many people

Have walked these steps?

How many hearts have been

Touched, guided,

Inspired in this place?

Let me journey with their spirits.

Let me walk in faithfulness,

In kindness,

In love.

In the pilgrim way.