JOIN US for a Trip of aLifetime Led By: YOUR Fr. Antony Pulikal INVITATION! HOLY NAME OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCH PILGRIMAGE Dear Friends, It is my pleasure to invite you to join us on a pilgrimage through IMPORTANT INFORMATION Ireland. As you can see from the itinerary, many incredible sights Departing: and experiences await us. Whether it’s your first time or a return Deposit - $ 500 trip, I invite you to join me on our pilgrimage to Ireland. SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 from Miami, FL (MIA) (upon booking) We will explore the beauty of Ireland together and experience the legendary sights in the land of St Patrick. Our trip will be 2nd Payment Due: a special time of sampling the best of natural beauty, historic $ .00 landmarks rich in Catholic heritage and the warmth of the Irish April 5, 2020 people. 3,349 All Inclusive! Full Payment Due: Take a few moments to look over the itinerary and invite your friends and family members to come along for this wonderful (Except lunches) June 19, 2020 pilgrimage. Single occupancy in Ireland Hotels Also available is an Optional visit to Scotland at the end of our (Limited Availability) - $450.00 Each tour member must hold a pilgrimage. passport that is valid until at least Optional Extension to Scotland - 4 Days We look forward to having you on this journey! March 15, 2021. $1,498.00 per person - All inclusive! DAYS God bless! (Except lunches) Single occupancy in Scotland Hotels 10 IRELAND (Limited Availability) - $150.00 Application forms are available at your Fr. Antony local Passport Office. Any required visas For further information, please contact: PILGRIMAGE will be processed for US citizens only. WITH OPTIONAL EXTENSION Non-US citizens are solely responsible Joan Claus Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church TO SCOTLAND for obtaining any required visas. 345 S. Military Trail West Palm Beach, FL. 33145 Providing Superior Christian Journeys Rates based on double-occupancy, the (561) 951-5561 [email protected] airline tax and fuel surcharge ($105) and for 43 years! currency exchange rate (s) at the date of quotation to your host. Subject to change CONTACT CPO TODAY! up to 30 days prior to departure. TOLL FREE: 1(800) 769-9466 ATLANTA: (404) 467-8041 3223 PACES FERRY PLACE NW • ATLANTA, GA 30305

WWW.CATHOLICPILGRIMOFFICE.COM [email protected] which surround it. The castle received many visitors in its magnificent scenery of Killarney National Park. Visit Killarney, time ~ some of the most notable being Greta Gabor and home of St. Mary’s Cathedral, a beautiful Gothic-style building Princess Grace of Monaco. Then we visit Colmcille Heritage that serves as the cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Kerry. Centre, an interpretive exhibition featuring Saint Colmcille Celebrate Mass. Dinner at your hotel (or enjoy an Optional [Columba], Patriarch of the Irish Monasticism and Scottish dinner and traditional entertainment at Kate Kearney’s Day 1: Wed Sep 2: USA / Dublin. We begin our Ireland pilgrimage by Church. Celebrate Mass. Return to our hotel for dinner and Cottage (or similar). Kate Kearney’s Cottage is a 150 year old boarding our trans-Atlantic flight to Dublin from Miami. Dinner overnight. family-run establishment. Price is subject to the number of and breakfast served during our flight. participants) Day 6: mon sep 7: Donegal to Galway. This morning we depart Day 2: thu sep 3: Welcome to Ireland. Arrive in Dublin Airport and THE PILGRIMAGE Donegal for Galway. En-route visit Knock Shrine, an Day 9: thu sep 10: Kerry to County Clare. Today after breakfast meet your modern motor coach with your driver and guide. Enjoy internationally recognised Marian Shrine. This little town we depart for Limerick. First we visit , superbly a panoramic Dublin City tour to discover the north and south side is an important pilgrimage centre and has been famous set on a rocky island in the River Suir in Cahir town. This of the River Liffey. This area offers great striking monuments such for over a century as the site of visions, apparitions, and impressive 15th century castle - the largest of its period in as the GPO (General Post Office) on the city main thoroughfare, miraculous cures. Celebrate Mass. The story of Knock Ireland - was considered impregnable until the advent of the O’Connell Street, or the Custom House along the quays, as well began on the 21st August 1879 when Our Lady, St. Joseph heavy cannon. Then visit the , possibly the most as the Phoenix Park, the largest public park in Europe. The south and St. John the Evangelist appeared at the south gable photographed site in Ireland. The Rock of Cashel towers over side appears more sophisticated with its vast Georgian squares, Itinerary of Knock Parish Church. Fifteen people, young and old the town of Cashel from its perch on a 200-foot high outcrop such as Merrion Square, where Oscar Wilde’s House can still be witnessed the apparition. The personal pilgrimage of Pope of limestone. St. Patrick visited the rock in 450 AD, while Brian found (today owned by an American College). Not so far from St. John Paul II in 1979, commemorating the centenary of the Boru was crowned the first high King of Ireland here in the Stephen’s Green, in Kildare St.where you will see the house of Bram apparition, inspired an even greater devotion to the Shrine tenth century. Celebrate Mass. Continue to our Limerick area Stoker, the author of Dracula. This part of the city is also dominated and endorsed the indelible seal of Vatican approval. Mother hotel and enjoy a medieval banquet and entertainment at by the students of Trinity College, where the famous book of Kells Teresa of Calcutta visited the Shrine in June of 1993. One and (or similar - Included). Overnight at our hotel is permanently exhibited in its library. Visit Trinity College, founded a half million pilgrims visit the Shrine annually. Continue to in the County Clare or area. in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth 1st on grounds confiscated from an Galway city, a delight with its narrow streets, old stone and Augustinian priory and is the oldest university in Ireland. Then PILGRIMAGE FEATURES wooden shop fronts and good restaurants. Our visit can Day 10: fri sep 11: Farewell Ireland / North America. Transfer visit St Mary’s Pro Cathedral which functions as the main Catholic start at Galway’s modern Cathedral, which was built in 1965. from our hotel to the Shannon Airport for return flight home parish church of the city centre in Dublin. Celebrate Mass. Dinner Then continue across the Salmon Weir Bridge and along the – the end of a memorable pilgrimage and overnight. Roundtrip Air trout stream to the Collegiate of St Nicholas of Myra, which was built in 1320. Continue along Eyre square, the accepted OR, continue with an extension to Scotland… Day 3: fri sep 4: Dublin’s fair City. This morning after breakfast, visit Transportation centre of Galway City and a statue to Padraig O’Conaire, a (minimum of 10 passengers required) , originally built in the 13th century on a site previously from Miami, FL (MIA) noted Irish writer. Then we visit Galway Cathedral, the largest settled by the Vikings. Dublin Castle functioned as a military Catholic church in Galway. The cathedral is located on Nun’s Day 10: fri sep 11: Shannon / Glasgow. This morning we drive to fortress, a prison, treasury, courts of law and the seat of English 3 Star Hotels Island and was the last large church in Ireland to be made the Shannon or Cork Airport for our flight to Scotland. Upon Administration in Ireland for 700 years. Next visit St. Michan’s from stone. Dinner and overnight at our hotel. arrival we meet our tour escort at the Glasgow airport and Church. Built on the site of an early Danish chapel (1095), this 17th- Land Transportation set out on an introductory tour of central Glasgow. This is a century edifice claims to be the only parish church on the north via deluxe, private motor coach Day 7: tue sep 8: Galway to Kerry. Celebrate Mass. This morning city that flourished in Victorian times due to the shipbuilding side of the Liffey surviving from a Viking foundation. Now under with wi-fi we depart Galway and drive to Kerry. First we travel through industry and international trade. Drive around George Square the Church of Ireland banner, it has some fine interior woodwork the Burren Region, one of Ireland’s 6 National Parks. The with its ornate City Chambers and visit Provand’s Lordship, and an organ (dated 1724) on which Handel is said to have played Taxes Fuel Surcharge region is visually similar to a moonscape, yet shelters a Glasgow’s oldest house built in 1471. The house was originally his Messiah. The church was completely and beautifully restored in mixture of flora and archaeological sites which have attracted part of a hospital and has been extensively restored and 1998. Celebrate Mass. The remainder of the afternoon is at leisure ($105) & Tip ($90) Included visitors for centuries. Continue to the Cliffs of Moher, one of furnished. Check in to our hotel for dinner and overnight. so that you can browse, shop and sightsee independently. (We Ireland’s most spectacular sights and situated on the Atlantic suggest a stop at the Kylemore Shop on Nassau St. to see the large Professional Ocean and bordering the Burren Area. The Cliffs boast one of Day 11: sat sep 12 Loch Lomond & Loch Ness Cruise. This morning assortment of Waterford Crystal) In the evening we have dinner the most amazing views in Ireland. On a clear day, the Aran we travel alongside the famous Loch Lomond, renowned at the hotel (or you are free to choose from the many restaurants, English-Speaking Guide Islands are visible in Galway Bay as well as the valleys and for its unsurpassed beauty and through the deep valley of theaters and pubs that Dublin has to offer) hills of Connemara. Then a visit to O’ Brien’s Tower built by Glen Coe, notorious for the Campbell massacre of the Clan Entrance fees Cornelius O’ Brien, a descendant of Brian Boru and Atlantic Macdonald in 1692. Drive through Fort William and stop at Day 4: sat sep 5: Dublin to Donegal. Today we journey from Dublin to all sites on itinerary Edge, an exciting new interpretive centre at the Cliffs of the Spean Bridge Woollen Mill, which offers a good selection to . First enroute we visit Monasterboice where Moher. Take the Shannon Car Ferry to our hotel in the Kerry of quality Scottish goods. At Fort Augustus embark on a short we discover an old graveyard, two churches and a sundial. area. The Shannon estuary has a unique value with a group cruise on Loch Ness to keep an eye out for “Nessie.” Return to Monasterboice is most famous for its spectacular high crosses, Breakfast & Dinner of bottle nosed dolphins resident in the estuary as well as an our hotel for dinner and overnight. especially the cross of Muineadach an outstanding example of high Daily important habitat for migrating birds and wild fowl. Dinner crosses of the early Christian period, noted as being the tallest in and overnight at our hotel. Day 12: sun sep 13: Edinburgh & Castle.This morning we drive Ireland. Then visit St Patrick’s RC Cathedral Armagh, an imposing to Edinburgh to visit the principal sights. Drive along the site, perched on the hilltop in Armagh and dominating its skyline. Includes visits to Trinity Day 8: wed sep 9: Ring of Kerry. Today, we tour the Iveragh bustling Princes Street and through the gracious, wide streets The church was begun in 1840, but because of the intervening College, Monasterboice, Colmcille Peninsula and discover the Ring of Kerry. Taking in spectacular of the 200-year-old Georgian New Town. Walk along part of famine years, not completed until 1873. Armagh is the ecclesiastical Heritage Center, Cliffs of Mother, scenery - mountains, peat bogs, lakes and magnificent views the Royal Mile where compact medieval houses reach 11 capital of Ireland. Celebrate Mass. Continue to our hotel in the St. Michan’s Church, Nat’l of the Atlantic Ocean as we travel through Killorglin, famous floors tall. Visit Edinburgh Castle, which dominates the city Donegal area. Dinner and overnight. Park & Castle, Galway Cathedral, for its Puck Fair, Glenbeigh, Cahirciveen, Waterville, Sneem and contains the Scottish Crown Jewels and the Stone of Rock Cashel, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Village, Molls Gap and Ladies View with superb views of the Scone. The balance of the day is free. Dinner is on our own Day 5: sun sep 6: County Donegal. Enjoy a full day touring in the Dublin Castle, Knock Shrine and Cahir famous lakes of Killarney. Visit , a nineteenth tonight to taste the local flavors. Donegal region. Donegal matches anywhere else in Ireland for Caste. century country residence with folk museum. Visit Killarney bleakness, dramatic cliffs and hectares of peat bogs. Visit the and enjoy a Jaunting Car Ride to discover areas of the National Day 13: mon sep 14: Edinburgh / USA. Your journey ends with Glenveagh National Park, in many ways one of Ireland’s hidden Park that you might not otherwise visit. Relax aboard a breakfast this morning and then transfer to the airport for treasures, as well as Glenveagh Castle and the splendid gardens Daily Masses Included jaunting car as your Jarvey [driver] takes you through the our flight home – the end of a memorable experience. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION VISIT: WWW.CATHOLICPILGRIMOFFICE.COM/FRPULIKAL