Overview & Itinerary
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Accommodation
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Highlight
The Young Adult Team on the Nottingham Diocesan Lourdes Pilgrimage is a new offering from the diocese. Open to those aged 18-35, this offers a unique opportunity to serve the main pilgrimage, deepen faith, and build lasting friendships.
Young adults will take on a variety of roles, including carrying banners in processions, supporting music ministry, serving at Mass, assisting with wheelchair maintenance and support. We will also help with catechesis sessions, airport transfers, and hotel support to ensure the smooth running of the pilgrimage. We will also be involved with any evening and free time activities. Finally, there will be opportunities for spiritual formation, including talks and reflections to deepen the pilgrimage experience.
About our pilgrimage
During our pilgrimage, there will be a lot to see and experience. Our pilgrimage and tour of Lourdes includes visits to the Basilica of the Rosary and the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.
We take part in the Masses, the Stations of the Cross and the blessing of the sick, visit the Grotto of Massabeille where the apparitions of Our Lady took place.
You will have the chance to drink from the spring at the base of the Grotto. The original spring that Bernadette located is still visible, protected by a glass cover and illuminated.
Visit the baths where hundreds of miraculous healings have taken place.
We participate in the evening torchlight processions which is a wonderful experience. Our Lady requested that these processions take place when She appeared to Bernadette.
We will also offer a walking tour to the Boly Mill, where Bernadette was born, and to the Cachot, an abandoned prison where Bernadette’s family lived.
We will see the hospice where Bernadette attended school and made her First Holy Communion. After the apparitions she also lived here until the age of twenty two, when she went to Nevers to join the Sisters of Charity of Nevers.
With any free time available, we are pleased to offer optional excursions to Bartres where we will see where Bernadette lived for a period of her life. Other optional excursions to Gavanie may also be offered.
This programme is subject to change.
