This is the big day! All of our pilgrims arrived throughout the day yesterday, and we took a bus tour of Athens. Today our two beautiful busses pull up to the hotel, we load up our luggage and we head into downtown Athens. First, we have Mass at the Cathedral of Dionysius of Athens. St. […]
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Read MoreAmericans will be flooding back to the Holy Land after the first of the year 2027, now that things have calmed down. Join us before the crowds arrive and the lines get long. A big anniversary is coming up in 2030—the 2,000th anniversary of Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River —and we will renew our […]
Read MoreOur last full day together! Everyone could sleep in a little bit today, but we had to be ready to leave the Grand Moderne Hotel at 9:30 for our 10 AM Mass in the Grotto of Lourdes. We celebrated Mass right where the Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette and where the spring is now still […]
Read MoreThe bus is gone. We have two full days in this lovely town of Lourdes at the foot of the Pyrénées Mountains in France. Full morning with free afternoon and evening. After a luscious breakfast at our quaint Grand Moderne Hotel we walked to Mass at the Cosmos and Damian Chapel in the Holy Rosary […]
Read MoreAfter leaving our luxury seminary-turned-hotel, Abba Hotel Burgos, we drove through the Pyrenees Mountains for our stop in Loyola, the birthplace of St. Ignatius. We toured the 17th century basilica dedicated to St. Ignatius and his family home, located behind the basilica. Very cool, we celebrated Mass in the very room where Ignatius experienced his […]
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