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Today, hundreds of people from our Diocese are on the move! By plane, by train, by coach, by car, by Jumbulance, they are on pilgrimage to the southern French town of Lourdes, in answer to Our Lady’s invitation to be, with her, Pilgrims of Hope. They carry with them prayers and intentions for our whole community.

Among the nearly 750 pilgrims travelling are 95 Redshirts (school years 10-11), nearly 80 Purpleshirts (year 12), nearly than 120 pilgrims needing support, 22 priests and deacons, 13 lay assistant chaplains, over 150 Helpers, and more than 40 members of the clinical team, including 6 student nurses, for whom the pilgrimage is a clinical placement, as part of their training.

Let us pray for those travelling and those staying at home but with the Lourdes Pilgrimage in their hearts, that we will all be blessed by this holy time.

You can read the Pilgrimage Handbook, to follow the Pilgrimage's prayers, Masses and events, by clicking the button below.