Find A Way: A Sacred Journey 2025-2028

What is it?
The Find A Way Pilgrimage is a 3 year intention to walk (literally and metaphorically) with the 350th anniversary of King Philip’s War across the lands of New England. This war between indigenous tribes and the settler-colonists of the church shapes our history and is largely unknown. It is an unhealed wound in our land, our culture.

“No dream of repair is possible without the long, slow, embodied work of reckoning.” These words from the Landscape of Slavery at Harvard Walking tour imagine a way towards a dream of healing that begins with learning from the land and the peoples who have lived with this land for thousands of years, discovering who we as church have been in that story. How can we begin a new chapter? How can we dream of healing centuries of damage? We will seek to Find A Way, against all odds, to listen, to witness to “streets that may be familiar but which we will seek to hear from in a new way.” (H& LS Tour)

Over three years, Province I of the Episcopal church with various native, ecumenical, interfaith partners in each diocese will sponsor convening opportunities to walk and pray and be in silence and listening together. These events will be on each of the Indigenous People’s Day weekends of 2025, 2026, 2027, and Holy Week of 2028, commemorating the signing of the treaty that ended the active phase of the conflict. Other events may emerge. In each event, the intention is to have opportunities to gather, to walk, to listen.

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The Day of Reckoning and Remembrance at St Augustine’s in South Kingstown, RI was very special. Thank you so much to John Brown, the tribal historic preservation officer of the Narragansett Tribe, for sharing with us. Thank you also to Peaceful

The Day of Remembrance & Reckoning at the site of the Great Swamp, plus the first small stint of our pilgrimage. We’re feeling extremely grateful to Sachem Dancing Star of the Pokanoket Tribe, who was generous enough to welcome us onto Poka

Starting this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, five pilgrims will travel from the site of the Great Swamp in Rhode Island up to Boston. We’d love to invite you to meet the pilgrims on Thurs evening when we arrive back in Boston. We’ll join

A small group of pilgrims will be traveling from the Day of Remembrance & Reckoning at the site of the Great Swamp on 10/12 and arriving in Boston on 10/15. Along the way we’re seeking hospitality and a place to stay in Bristol the evening

2026 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Diocesan Gathering

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Monday, October 12, 2026, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM: Journey to the Great Swamp: Day of Remembrance & Reckoning in St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church, South Kingstown, RI – On December 19, 1675 a Narragansett encampment of over a thousand civilians was attacked by colonial militias from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, alongside Pequot allies, killing hundreds. On October 12, representatives from the Episcopal Province I Indigenous Peoples’ Justice Network, ecumenical partners, and Native partners will gather at the church near the site of the Great Swamp for a day of remembrance and reckoning guided by Native neighbors. In consultation with leadership from the Narragansett tribe no ceremony of any kind will be performed at the site, but we will be permitted to walk on the site and experience it.

Tickets are limited and can be reserved based on your home diocese/canonical residency. RSVP for the Day of Reckoning & Remembrance here.

If you are participating in the Diocesan Gathering, there will be a preparation zoom call on Tuesday, October 6 at 7pm. if you have not received a link for this call, please email findawaypilgrimage@gmail.com.

2026 Sacred Journey

Following the gathering, a small group will embark on a 3-day pilgrimage by boat and foot, stopping in Bristol, New Bedford, Plymouth (the full schedule of the pilgrimage is below).

Upon arriving back in Boston, we welcome you to join us for a short walk followed by prayer and fellowship. To participate in any part of the pilgrimage is to be part of the whole.

Schedule:
3:30PM: Pilgrims will disembark from the Hingham Ferry at Long Wharf, receive a blessing, and then walk 0.7 miles to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Voyage to pray. Meet us at Long Wharf and walk with us to the Shrine to participate in a mini-pilgrimage.

5PM: The pilgrims and those who join us for the prayer will break bread together and share about their journey at the Well Coffee House on Tremont St (0.8 mile walk from the Shrine). Light appetizers will be provided.

Reach out to findawaypilgrimage@gmail.com if you’re interested in learning more. Please keep the pilgrims in your prayers and continue to pray for the healing of the land.