Pilgrimage to Lourdes with the ICRSP

Any reason to go to France is a good reason, but this one seems exceptionally good.  From the website of the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest:

PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES

March 29 - 30, 2008

This year, Holy Mother Church commemorates the 150th anniversary

of the apparitions of Our Lady in Lourdes in 1858,

when she identified herself to St. Bernadette Soubirous

as the "Immaculate Conception,"

thus confirming the dogma proclaimed four years before.

Join Msgr. Gilles Wach, Prior General of the Institute of Christ the King, and other members of the Institute on a two-day pilgrimage to Lourdes.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

12:30 noon - Opening Mass at the Basilica of the Rosary

5:00 pm - a. Conference by Msgr. Gilles Wach

b. Group activities with seminarians for children

aged 7 - 15 years: "In the footsteps of St. Bernadette"

9:00 pm - Candlelight Procession

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

9:30 am - Stations of the Cross

11:00 - Solemn High Mass at the Grotto

2:30 pm - Closing of the Pilgrimage with Adoration of the

Most Blessed Sacrament, Rosary, and Benediction

in the Basilica of the Rosary

All travel and lodging to be arranged by each pilgrim.

For information and registration:

Agence Clio

France/+33 1 53 68 82 98

peleicrsp@clio.fr