This year so we invite you to join together in A Spiritual Pilgrimage from Cork and Ross to Lourdes
12th to 17th June 2020.
From as far back as the nineteenth century, the Church instituted the practice of making a spiritual pilgrimage for all those who could not, for whatever reason, physically make a pilgrimage to a holy place.
To help us on our pilgrim way, we draw on Bernadette’s own experience. During the eighteen Apparitions, Bernadette never came to the Grotto alone. She was always accompanied; sometimes by people who helped her physically to get near the Grotto safely; sometimes by people who were already praying whilst waiting for her in front of the Grotto. We should also remember that, during the Apparitions, Bernadette was always accompanied on her spiritual path by priests, particularly by the young Abbot Pomian, who became her spiritual director.
Bernadette moved to the Convent in Nevers on the 7th July 1866, and each day she made a spiritual pilgrimage to the grotto saying: “Every day I go in spirit to the Grotto. I make a pilgrimage there.”
In the Gospel, Jesus tells us: “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them”. (Matthew 18:20). So with Bernadette and with each other we make our spiritual pilgrimage to Lourdes bringing with us our prayers and petitions.
1. We join the Chaplains at the Grotto in Lourdes each day beginning on Friday 12th June and concluding on Wednesday 17th June by watching on TV Lourdes as we pray together.
https://www.lourdes-france.org/en/tv-lourdes/
2. Each day in English there is Rosary at the Grotto at 2:00pm (Irish time) and Mass is celebrated in English at 4:00pm (Irish time) at the Grotto. (watch on Lourdes TV)
A large candle will be lit at the grotto for the intentions of the pilgrims of our diocese on 12th June
