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Graces of France BARCELONA • LOURDES • PARAY • MONT-SAINT-MICHEL • LISIEUX • PARIS Graces of France BARCELONA • LOURDES • PARAY • MONT-SAINT-MICHEL • LISIEUX • PARIS Journey the pathways of some of the Church’s greatest Saints on this blessed pilgrimage route through the glorious countryside and most TOUR CODE: 4GF04 sacred regions of France. A 17 DAY PILGRIMAGE | BARCELONA TO PARIS FROM AUD Lisieux Paris FULLY INCLUSIVE* $7,390 2 2 OR $5,090 Mont-Saint-Michel Chartres FEATURING: Nevers • Barcelona (1) Paray-le-Monial 2 • Montserrat (2) • Manresa Taize • Lourdes (3) france • Toulouse 1 Departing • Rocamadour (1) Rocamadour • Paray-le-Monial (2) 16th October 2014 • Taize Toulouse • Nevers Accompanied by • Chartres 3 Lourdes • Mont-Saint-Michel (2) Fr Richard Smith EV PP • Lisieux SPAIN Manresa • Paris (2) Montserrat 2 1 Barcelona HARVEST HIGHPOINTS Be awestruck as you enter the Enjoy a relaxed 3 night stay in magnificent 13th century Chartres Lourdes, the ‘City of Mary’ to absorb Cathedral on a professionally guided a healing grace. 1 2 exploration. Come to breathtaking Mont-Saint- Enjoy a memorable visit at the Rue du Michel and be inspired by the prayerful Bac Chapel where Our Lady appeared beauty of the great Abbey built in to Catherine Laboure. 3 honour of St Michael the Archangel. 4 Free Call 1800 819 156 • www.harvestpilgrims.com • Ph: (02) 9390 5460 • [email protected] ITINERARY Barcelona DAY 1: DEPART FOR SPAIN DAY 2: ARRIVE BARCELONA On arrival at Barcelona airport we will be met and transferred to our centrally located hotel. Remainder of the afternoon at leisure in this city synonymous with art, culture and faith. Barcelona overnight (D) DAY 3: BARCELONA TO MONTSERRAT We enjoy a morning in Barcelona to experience the cultural canvas that underpinned many of Picasso’s artworks and view the unique and colourful architecture of Antonio Gaudi dispersed throughout the city. We commence with a visit and Mass in Barcelona Cathedral (La Seu), a celebrated example of Catalan Gothic architecture dating from the 14th century. The elevated DAY 4: MONTSERRAT MOUNTAIN Sanctuary. site occupied by the cathedral has always RETREAT Before lunch, we will take our place among been the spiritual centre of Barcelona. Our spectacular day of pilgrimage begins the privileged to hear the heavenly sounds We will be awe-struck visiting Gaudi’s with a visit and Mass in the Basilica, the of the Montserrat Boys Choir (The famous La Sagrada Familia Basilica before construction of which began in the 16th Escolania), one of the oldest and most enjoying a leisurely visit to Guell Park where renowned in Europe. we can enter Gaudi’s house which is now a century, and a viewing of the beautiful Holy After lunch we will have a private guided tour museum as well as offering spectacular views Image of Our Lady of Montserrat, known of the museums and the Basilica. over the city. affectionately as the “Black Madonna.” The remainder of the afternoon will provide Later this afternoon we will arrive into We will then board the Santa Cova funicular the option of time for rest and prayerful stunning Montserrat. The renowned railway and after a short ride, enjoy a walk reflection. eleventh-century sanctuary of Our Lady of down the sacred path passing modernist Montserrat lies at the top of a 4000 foot high sculptures of the Mysteries of the Rosary (all Before dinner, we will have an opportunity mountain and is one of Spain’s most popular worked on by Llimona and Gaudi among to join the Benedictine monks in the Basilica pilgrimage destinations. The shrine is home others). Almost hanging from the rock’s for the beautiful sounds of evening Vespers. to a twelfth-century miraculous statue of the edge at the end of the route is the Chapel Montserrat overnight (BD) Blessed Virgin Mary, lovingly known as the where the image of Our Lady of Montserrat “Black Madonna”, discovered in the Santa was found by young shepherds in the 13th DAY 5: MONTSERRAT TO LOURDES Cova or Holy Cave. Here at Montserrat St century after seeing a bright light which led (VIA MANRESA) Ignatius kept vigil with a coarse sackcloth them to the grotto. We take time here at the After an early breakfast we farewell and a pilgrim staff. Holy Cave for prayer and reflection before Montserrat and travel to the nearby town of Montserrat overnight (BD) taking the funicular railway back up to the Manresa where St Ignatius came on retreat for eleven months between 1522 and 1523. Montserrat Each day he spent seven hours in prayer in a cave and then helped the sick in the village with the time he had left over. Here too Ignatius began to develop the method for seeking God’s will and where he wrote his renowned Spiritual Exercises. We come as pilgrims to this amazing place with St Ignatius and pray in the actual cave where his life and spirituality developed. Later we travel through the scenic foothills of the Pyrenees, crossing into Southern France before continuing on to Lourdes. It was in this small town that Our Lady first appeared to St Bernadette in 1858. Lourdes overnight (BD) DAY 6: LOURDES We celebrate an International Mass this morning with pilgrims worldwide in the immense Underground Basilica of Pius X (schedule permitting) followed by a visit to the little village of Bartres, and the farm where St Bernadette was nursed and later returned in adolescence to help her foster mother. We will visit the Sheepfold and the Parish Church where she spent so many hours in prayer. We will return to Lourdes to enjoy a peaceful afternoon to rest or wander at your own pace or take the time to pray the Stations of the Cross with the life sized copper images which overlook the holy Grotto. Spend some quiet time perhaps reflecting at the Grotto with its chapel built over the place of the apparitions. Optional Blessed Sacrament Procession and evening candlelight procession. Lourdes overnight (BD) DAY 7: LOURDES This morning we will celebrate a group Mass at the Grotto before meeting our guide for a walking tour of Lourdes including the Sanctuary area: Upper & Lower Basilicas, the Grotto, and the Baths where hundreds of Lourdes Grotto miraculous cures have taken place. Continue our visit of the main sites associated with St east towards Rocamadour. En route we will statue. Other sites we will see include St Michael’s Chapel Bernadette including the Boly Mill where visit Toulouse, the ‘pink city’ including with its 12th century St Amadour’s crypt. she was born in 1844, the original parish the Saint-Sernin Basilica, the largest frescoes and church and the Cachot (prison) where the Romanesque church in Europe, and the Departing Rocamadour we continue our family was forced to live due to misfortune Church of the Jacobins which is also the French immersion travelling on to Paray- during the time of the apparitions. burial site of St Thomas Aquinas, the great le-Monial, the place where St Margaret theologian and philosopher. Mary Alacoque experienced visions of the Free time this afternoon for a visit and Sacred Heart of Jesus in the 17th century. In prayers for the sick at the miraculous Baths Later this afternoon we arrive into revealing His Heart to her, Jesus said: where the water has continued to flow since Rocamadour, the sacred city built “Behold the Heart which has so loved men that 1858. Pilgrims may choose to submerge stunningly against the side of a cliff. it has spared nothing but has been poured out themselves in the healing waters, or collect Remainder of the day at leisure. You may totally and consumed as proof of its love”. the Lourdes water at the taps. During her wish to climb the Grand Escalier or take the ninth apparition to Bernadette, Our Lady elevator from the lower town. Paray-le-Monial overnight (BD) said “Go drink and wash yourself at the spring”. Rocamadour overnight (BD) Optional afternoon Blessed Sacrament DAY 10: PARAY-LE-MONIAL & TAIZE Procession and Blessing of the Sick before DAY 9: ROCAMADOUR TO PARAY- After a leisurely breakfast, we set off this morning for Taize, the tiny hillside a final evening candlelight procession after LE-MONIAL dinner. community in which young people from This morning we will visit theShrine of Lourdes overnight (BD) all over the world are drawn. Bl. Pope Rocamadour. Our group Mass will be John Paul II referred to Taize as ‘that little celebrated at the Chapel of the Black Virgin springtime’ as pilgrims join in a common DAY 8: LOURDES & ROCAMADOUR where we have the opportunity also to pray weekly programme of prayer meetings, We depart Lourdes today travelling north- before the miraculous Black Madonna discussion groups and meals. We join with Rocamadour the community for midday prayer, which is sung beautifully in the large candlelit church. Return this afternoon to Paray-le-Monial for a guided visit featuring the Chapel of Apparitions, the room of the relics of St Margaret Mary, the Diorama of St Margaret and the Eucharist Museum. Other highlights include the Basilica of Sacre Coeur and the Chapel of St Claude in honour of St Margaret Mary’s Spiritual Director. Paray-le-Monial overnight (BD) DAY 11: VIA NEVERS & CHARTRES TO MONT-SAINT-MICHEL This morning we farewell the city of the Heart of Jesus and journey to the town of Nevers nestled within the picturesque Loire Valley. Here we will celebrate Mass and visit the Convent of St Gildard where St Bernadette’s incorrupt body reposes and may be viewed. After she was blessed with the eighteen apparitions of the Virgin Mary Paris pilgrimage tour of Lisieux visiting the family home of Les Buissonets, the Carmelite Convent Chapel with its reliquary of the saint and St Therese’s Basilica.
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