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Issue 4; November 2007 Welcome to the fourth issue of the Holy Souls Crusade Newsletter. The aim of the Holy Souls Crusade (HSC) is to promote the needs of the Souls in Purgatory through Masses, Eucharistic Adoration, Rosaries and prayers all year and not just during November. More recently that promotion has expanded into pilgrimages. This issue looks at Pilgrimage and reports on two of the three pilgrimages organised by the HSC during 2007. Pilgrimage has been defined as: “A long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place.” This quote from Answers.com expands on the definition of Christian Pilgrimage:
“Pilgrimages were first made to sites connected
with the birth, life, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Surviving
descriptions of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land date from the 4th
century, when pilgrimage was encouraged by church fathers like Saint Jerome.
Pilgrimages also began to be made to Rome and other sites associated with
the Apostles, Saints and Christian martyrs, as well as to places where
there have been apparitions of the Virgin Mary. The crusades to the holy
land are also considered to be mass armed pilgrimages.
The second largest single pilgrimage in
the history of Christendom was to the Funeral of Pope John Paul II after
his death on April 2, 2005. An estimated four million people travelled
to Vatican City, in addition to the almost three million people already
living in Rome, to see the body of Pope John Paul II lie in state.
World Youth Day is a major Catholic Pilgrimage,
specifically for people aged 16-35. It is held internationally every 2-3
years. In 2005, young Catholics visited Cologne, Germany. In 1995, the
largest gathering of all time was to World Youth Day in Manila, Philippines,
where four million people from all over the world attended.”
But pilgrimage, as we know it, began in Old Testament times. In the
Book of Deuteronomy we read of instructions given to our Hebrew forebears
who were commanded by God to journey to the Temple:
“Three times in a year shall all thy males
appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the
feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
No one shall appear with his hands empty before the Lord: But every one
shall offer according to what he hath, according to the blessing of the
Lord his God, which he shall give him.” (Deuteronomy 16:16-17)
We in the HSC see those for whom we pray as being on another type of ‘pilgrimage’. Our earthly lives are but a short journey on our way to Paradise. For most of us the next part of our journey to God will be as a ‘pilgrimage of perfection’, passing through purgatory to be cleansed of all traces of imperfection or shadow of sin. Few and far between are those who make that final journey directly to our Heavenly Father. That can only be achieved by leading a life of growth in holiness and our mentors can be found in our Blessed Mother and the lives of the Saints. Their lives, lived within the same social, financial and external constraints as we live ours, were based on prayer, obedience and submission to the will of God, as well as charitable works - they are our models for holiness. One consoling thought for us here on earth is the power we have in our own hands through the power of prayer. We are told that the concept of time is an earthly one – minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years – but in eternity there is no time, just the ‘eternal now’. Our prayers of today can be effective for all those who have gone before us and for all who are to come after us. This is particularly significant for us living in a period of time devoted to the loving mercy of God – the Divine Mercy. Our first journey to Poland, in November 2006, to that place where our Blessed Lord spoke of His Mercy to His Apostle of Divine Mercy, St. Faustina, has opened the door for HSC pilgrimages to the Shrine of Divine Mercy just outside of Krakow in Poland. It brought us to the home place of the great pilgrim Pope – John Paul II - as we travelled in his footsteps. We gained a deeper understanding of how powerful the Divine Mercy prayers are, of how closely linked they are to our work for the Holy Souls and of the need we all have to promote this prayer form. It is a prayer for conversion of hearts, - for our own and those of our families and friends, for those on their deathbed and most in need of God’s Mercy, for those who are contemplating or who have committed suicide, for governments and decision-makers, for leaders in society - the list is endless. Those souls converted and saved from eternal damnation by the Divine Mercy prayers could also be the souls we then pray for in purgatory. We have much work to do! And much praying to do!
By Andrew Marmion
The ecclesiology (the theology of the Church, its nature and what it is about) of Vatican II adopted an understanding of the Church as a pilgrim people demonstrated in the document Lumen Gentium: this augments the view of the Church as the Body of Christ. Significantly, this idea enunciates the fact that the Church is not static, but rather, is moving, set on a course through history, guided by the Holy Spirit, and is advancing towards its culmination with the Second Coming of Christ. Therefore the Church has cried out through the ages and continues to cry out: Maranatha! Come Lord Jesus! Simultaneously, the Church declares that Christ is Risen, salvation is available for all who will embrace Him. The Carmelite spirituality reflects this notion of Pilgrim People, teaching that the spiritual life too should be something alive and active; we are meant to grow in the likeness of Christ as we journey through life until we hear him calling us to our heavenly homeland. Likewise, the climb of Mount Carmel can be paralleled to that of Calvary where we are to meet our Crucified Saviour. Bathed in the rays of His forgiveness and healing coming from the cross, and as we advance ever upward, we are gradually transformed into the perfect image of Christ and thus, rendered more pleasing to our Heavenly Father. We are not to look down at the path we are climbing, which will only weigh us down, and neither are we to consider the height that must be reached, which will only serve to discourage us. Rather, we are to look away from ourselves and the hazards of the journey up to our Crucified Lord of Glory. Faith in him will ensure that we do not trip; we will not be led astray. This is synonymous with St. John of the Cross’ understanding of the spiritual path as “night” since the soul journeys by faith. This imagery informs us that living our life in Christ is not easy, but we are granted the necessary graces and more besides to live out our daily conversion, whereby we slowly detach ourselves from our idols, turn away from all that is unholy towards God whose face shines upon us, bidding us move forward to a greater union with Him. It is not only renunciation that plays its part, prayer and the reception of the sacraments are food for the journey, the means by which we are enabled to listen to the still, small voice of God and enabled to respond to him. So, the Pilgrim Church, that is, its faithful disciples, are called to move away from a sinful existence and, stripped of their self-centredness, are to travel more freely towards their heavenly homeland while keeping their gaze fixed on their ultimate goal. This calls to mind St. Luke’s Gospel (9:1-6), when Jesus sends out the Twelve Apostles to the neighbouring villages He himself is to visit. He tells them to take nothing for the journey, no staff, no sack, no money, no food. They were to have complete trust in God that their needs would be met. Their entire focus was to be on God and the preaching of the Good News. We too are called to be witnesses to the Gospel and, as we unburden ourselves of our sins and evil inclinations through prayer and sacrifice, keeping our eyes fixed on God, our witness becomes more real, more effective. However, our journey to the Beatific Vision does not necessarily end with our death. Many of us will continue our travels to the Blessed Trinity via Purgatory. Interestingly, an American mystic, Patricia Devlin, was taken to Purgatory by her Guardian Angel, and describes it in a way I have never read before. She saw the suffering souls as on a journey towards heaven and they had many obstacles which they had to overcome - steep hills, rocks and the like. Every so often, Patricia would come across a soul lying prostrate before large boulders they had to climb over, or before deep gullies they had to descend in order to confront themselves, unable to carry on the journey. Her Guardian Angel explained that these souls did not have the willingness to comprehend or accept the responsibility for their sins and were in need of our prayers to help them. The pilgrimages that the Holy Souls Crusade organise to Garabandal in Spain and to Poland are microcosms of the pilgrimage of life. We are called there not only for spiritual refreshment and healing, but also to practice penance and prayer that will bring us that bit closer to Heaven. Likewise, each pilgrimage is dedicated to the Holy Souls to help them reach their eternal homeland and thus, our pilgrimage of life and our particular pilgrimages to holy places are linked to that of the pilgrimage of the suffering souls in Purgatory. We pray for them to help them on their way just as they assist us with their prayers. This is made possible as we are all part of the Pilgrim Church: we are the Church militant and they the Church Suffering. May we help each other to reach Heaven, the Church Triumphant where our Heavenly Father awaits us with outstretched arms. “Heavenly Father, grant us the grace to keep our eyes fixed on you. May we co-operate with the graces you give us so that we may reach our heavenly homeland where you long to embrace us, where we find our completion. Grant that our journey through life, our prayers and penance, be of assistance to our suffering brothers and sisters in Purgatory. Have mercy on them and hasten their purgation that they may sing Your praises for eternity. Amen.” By Mary Mullins During the summer of 2006 two of us were
drawn to visit Auschwitz in southern Poland. The ‘pull’ was to visit and
pray for the souls of those who had committed or taken part in the atrocities
of that place. We arrived on a clear November day and went on to spend
three hours facing the reality of mans inhumanity to man!
Auschwitz I was originally a Polish army camp. Prisoner population quickly rose and Auschwitz II–Birkenau, 3km away, was built in 1941, becoming the infamous ‘factory of death’. Efficiency in the ‘extermination process’ had been scientifically developed – how much Zyclon-B was required in a specific floor area to gain maximum deaths. It resulted in 2,000 souls gassed in just 15-20 minutes in each of the 4 Birkenau gas chambers. The Angelus bell greeting our arrival, and passing through each block, our sense of shock, sadness, and revulsion increased. Blocks 4-6 house display cases with lists of names, photographs, artificial limbs, walking sticks and crutches, spectacles, clothes, shoes, suitcases, Jewish Prayer Shawls and items for religious worship, empty Zyclon-B canisters, and human hair! Nothing was wasted! In 1945 liberators found warehouses stacked with these items, and 7 tons of human hair, bagged and awaiting sale in Germany for weaving into tailor’s lining! In Block 10 SS doctors Mengeles and Clauberg used inmates for their genetic experiments, anthropological research, sterilisations and testing of toxic substances. In Block 11, the ‘Death Block’, prisoners were sentenced to death for any reason and none. Here we saw the cell of Saint Maximillian Kolbe! We prayed the Chaplet for the Holy Souls at the ‘Death Wall’ joining Blocks 10 and 11 and left some prayer leaflets, the only tangible offering we had with us to add to the wreaths and candles left by pilgrim Israeli soldiers. We prayed at the original gas chamber and crematorium, at the portable gallows where prisoners were hung en-masse, and we finished our tour of Auschwitz I praying before the gallows used to execute SS Commandant Rudolph Höss. As we walked from block to block in Auschwitz I and stood beside the gas chambers of Auschwitz II we saw at first-hand man’s capability of absolute evil and two big questions came to my mind – how could it have happened, and what would I have done had I been in these circumstances? No question of WHY? There is no answer to the why of absolute evil – we know where it comes from and its purpose. Our feelings of revulsion, seeing what happened in this terrible place, left us wondering how we could pray for the souls of those who carried out these awful deeds? It was but a fleeting moment of doubt. Always was the thought that no child is born evil, each is born in the image and likeness of God and much loved by Him. The cry went out after its discovery – ‘NEVER AGAIN’ – yet history repeats itself, just as it has from the beginning! Auschwitz is a symbol for many other places and times in history –Stalin’s Siberia & the Gulags; Pol Pot’s Killing Fields in Cambodia; Rawanda; Kosova; Dafur; etc. and every other place of genocide since the beginning of time, also infanticide through abortion and embryonic stem-cell experimentation, research and cloning. We need to remember each and every ungodly situation and event in prayer. We also must remember all those who die through hunger and poverty and who were and continue to be persecuted and murdered for their faith. November brings darkness at 4pm and our visit to Auschwitz I had taken 3 hours. A lovely taxi-driver brought us to Auschwitz II-Birkenau. He showed us the ghostly remains of the IG-Farben factory, two of the original railway carriages used to transport French Jews, and the ‘Judenrampe’ where the trains disgorged their human traffic. He showed us the ruins of the 4 large gas chambers and crematoria, pointed out the pond filled in with human ashes and stood with us at the memorial monument erected in 2005. Dangling our Rosary beads, we asked him to wait as we ended our day standing beside one of the gas chambers praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. He stood and watched and on the way back spoke of his own ancestors, some of whom had survived. We spoke about our apostolate for the Holy Souls and gave him some prayer leaflets for his English-speaking passengers. He gave us a business card and later we discovered our ‘guide’ was Jewish. Auschwitz had ‘marked’ Aidan and I and we spent the following day in the beautiful Monastery of Kalwaria discussing our experiences and wishing to organise Holy Souls pilgrimages to this place, especially aiming to bring young people. For them Auschwitz is just a place name in a history book, soon to be discarded from UK history books – the reality is unbelievable. Our future leaders in society need to experience this place too. We came to understand that we now live in a time of ‘man depending on man’ for solutions that are outside of his full sphere of comprehension; or that are deliberately orchestrated as means to an end in power struggles of ownership and control of the world’s resources; or of population control through enforced sterilisation, abortion and euthanasia; or scientific experimentation on early human life to find cures, and the ultimate evil - to create life - the one thing that satan has not been able to do until now through cloning – Godless decisions made by many Godless men and women, men and women who listen to the call of the world. Yet these men and women have that tiny glimmer of the light of God in their souls and prayer for them can ignite it. This is where we are called into action. Jesus needs His troops on this
battlefield too – the battlefield for souls - souls from long ago, souls
of today and the souls of tomorrow. We need to pray the Divine Mercy 3
o’clock prayer, the Chaplet and the Novena, for God’s Mercy to pour out
and flow through the hearts of mankind. Then the cry from Auschwitz of
‘NEVER AGAIN’ will be heard and answered in the only place where it can
be answered – the heavenly sphere.
In August 2007 our
first pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Divine Mercy in southern Poland saw
62 pilgrims gather from all over Ireland, both north and south. Four lovely
nights were spent at the Pastoral Lodge, built for visiting pilgrims in
2003 under the instruction of the Bishop of Krakow. The remaining three
nights were spent in the Centre for Dialogue & Prayer in Auschwitz.
We were blessed to
have three wonderful Priests travelling with us, two of them pilgrims and
Fr. Alphonsus Cullinan as our Spiritual Director - Chaplain to Limerick
Institute of Technology and a Youth 2000 Priest. Our pilgrims’ ages ranged
from 20 years old to 91 years young! Eight married couples graced us with
their presence and witness to the holy Sacrament of Marriage through their
commitment to each other. By mid-week this group of ‘strangers’ had become
a ‘family’, completely comfortable with each other and forging friendships
that may well last a very long time.
Our week was one of prayer from start to finish and yet it was filled with fun and laughter as we basked in the beautiful Polish sunshine of late summer. Daily Mass laid the foundation for the day’s journeys and nightly Eucharistic Adoration laid the foundation for peaceful nightly slumber (not withstanding the ‘snoring beauties’!). Sr. Gaudia, one of the novices in St. Faustina’s order of Our Lady of Divine Mercy, whose convent is right next door to the Pastoral Lodge and the Basilica, spoke with the group about the Message of the Divine Mercy. For Fr. Phonsie the impact of her words left a deep impression. Sunday started with Mass at the Shrine and was then spent visiting the beautiful city of Krakow, with first port of call to Wawel Cathedral. The rest of the day saw many of us lounging in outdoor cafés watching the many young families enjoy their Sunday together. Churches were full to capacity for all Sunday Masses and again for the 3 o’clock Divine Mercy prayers, such a joy to behold and long may it continue. Krakow has to be one of Europe’s most beautiful cities! 
The Cloth Hall in Krakow's city centre square, Rynek Glowny
Tuesday offered those who were fit and able
a visit to the famous Salt Mines located just outside of Krakow. 135 metres
down and with marvellous displays at three levels, we descended over 800
steps and were all struck by the wonder, skill and beauty of the hundreds
of displays, all carved in salt! Each level has a lovely little chapel,
statues of Our Lord and the Blessed Mother, Pope John Paul II, as well
as historic displays of life as it would have been for the miners of centuries
ago. This is a place well worth a visit whether on pilgrimage or not!
Wednesday was the day we made our way to the ultimate focus of our pilgrimage
– our visit to Auschwitz. We said farewell to our marvellous, friendly
and welcoming hosts at the Shrine, vowing to return again.
We moved from Kalwaria on to the lovely little city of Wadowice, home
place of Pope John Paul II in his early years. Again we experienced a church
filled to capacity for Mass and spent some time looking around the place
where he must have spent many, many hours in prayer as a child. Eucharistic
Adoration was present in a lovely little chapel at the back of the church.
The former home of JPII has been turned into a museum and offers great
insight to the various stages of his life - from boyhood, through Priesthood
to his years as Bishop, Archbishop, Cardinal and finally as one of the
greatest Popes the Catholic Church has ever known!
We arrived in Auschwitz tired and hungry and welcomed the fine dinner awaiting us. Next door to the Centre for Dialogue & Prayer sits the Carmelite Convent and Church which was to be our location for Mass each morning and Eucharistic Adoration each evening before dinner. Thursday morning and our first visit to the infamous ‘death camp’! Our pilgrims faced a place of absolute evil, saw all we had seen the previous year, prayed at the same spots we had prayed and felt the same emotions we had felt – anger, revulsion, lack of understanding at how any human being could do what was done to another human being! A cloud of sadness descended on them!  John, our youngest pilgrim laid a wreath at the ‘death wall’ and this for him was the most touching and poignant event of his whole week, so much so that this quiet, shy lad stood up and spoke about it at our final dinner on the Friday night before returning home. It was an experience he will never forget! It was a quiet bus
that returned to the Centre for lunch that day. In the afternoon we were
given a talk by the Programme Director of the Centre, Fr. Manfred Deselears,
a German Jesuit who felt called to return to this place after his own first
visit. Such were the feelings of us all that I’m afraid many of us nodded
off! We were all emotionally and physically drained! Before dinner we spent
an hour in quiet and reflective Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the
Carmelite Church and after dinner our three blessed Priests held a service
of prayer and reconciliation, hearing confessions for more than an hour.
Friday morning saw us making our way to Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a short bus drive just 3kms away. This visit turned out to be very peaceful and healing after the assault to our senses from the day before, despite this being the place where the most deaths took place. We prayed the Rosary walking beside the Judenrampe and down the avenue to the Monument; the Divine Mercy Chaplet at the Monument where our oldest pilgrim, Michael, laid another wreath, and moved over to the side of the ruins of one of the gas chambers and crematoria to pray the Chaplet for the Holy Souls. Our group had quite a few folk from Northern Ireland and one of the girls led us in a Rosary for Life and for an end to the slaughter of the modern-day holy innocents through abortion.  Before dinner that
night our Eucharistic Adoration was an unusual one. We ‘kept Jesus company
in the Garden of Gethsemane’ and then ‘walked His Calvary with Him’ as
we prayed and meditated on a Stations of the Cross for Auschwitz composed
by Fr. Manfred that included reflections from some survivors of the concentration
camp. It brought into focus the terrible emotional and psychological suffering
Jesus must have endured in the Garden, knowing in His Divine heart that
evil would continue to be manifested throughout time in places like Siberia,
Auschwitz, Cambodia, Kosova; and across Africa, South America, Asia and
the Middle East; and through terrorism, civil wars and genocide; and in
the abuse of innocent children through abortion, child prostitution, paedophilia;
and through the arms trade, the drugs trade and human trafficking! The
list goes on and on!
And so we left this
lovely land with its haunting memories with just one solution to the evils
of the world, the only solution – PRAYER - and especially the prayers of
Divine Mercy for conversion of hearts. It is up to each one of us to set
out to save souls and the only way we can do it is one soul at a time!
Jesus gave St. Faustina this powerful prayer form in the early part of
the last century and the Divine Mercy is indeed a prayer for our times!
We will be back, we will promote, we will never forget!
"We must make many sacrifices, perform
much penance and visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently. But first, we
must lead good lives. If we do not, a chastisement will befall us. The
cup is already filling up and if we do not change, a very great chastisement
will befall us."
Over the four years She appeared all over the village, giving Her Heavenly Mother’s blessing at the church, in the homes and at the cemetery, and kissing religious objects such as rosaries, crucifixes, medals and particularly wedding rings. On Our Lady`s last visit to Garabandal, she told visionary Conchita Gonzalez "Through the kiss I have bestowed on these objects, my Son will perform prodigies..." . This promise has been and continues to be fulfilled in numerous physical cures and spiritual conversions reported around the world. The children continually
asked Our Lady to give the visiting crowds proof of Her presence in the
village and on July 18th 1962 the ‘Miracle of the Host’ occurred.
As the crowd pressed around Conchita, she put out her tongue and there
immediately appeared on it a brilliant white Host. One witness, who was
just inches away, quickly dispelled any notions of trickery and stated
that,.... " It did not seem to have been deposited there but might be described
rather as having materialised there, faster than the human eye could see."
Although an amateur with a movie camera and with the aid of only flashlight
illumination, he was able to film the last few moments of the Miracle.
In October 1965 Our Lady gave the world Her second and final formal message: "As my message of October 18 has not been complied with and has not been made known to the world, I am advising you that this is the last one. Before, the cup was filling up. Now it is flowing over. Many Cardinals, many Bishops and many Priests are on the road to perdition and are taking many souls with them. Less and less importance is being given to the Eucharist. You should turn the wrath of God away from yourselves by your efforts. If you ask His forgiveness with sincere hearts, He will pardon you. I, your Mother, through the intercession of St. Michael the Archangel, ask you to amend your lives. You are now receiving the last warnings. I love you very much and do not want your condemnation . Pray to Us with sincerity and We will grant your requests. You should make more sacrifices. Think about the Passion of Jesus” In 2004 twelve of us travelled to Garabandal, the ‘forgotten Marian apparition site’ in the Cantabrian Mountains in Northern Spain. This was to be the first ‘organised pilgrimage’ for the Holy Souls. Such was the peace experienced during that week that the visit was repeated in 2005 when seven of us returned again. On reaching home it was agreed to bring a larger group on pilgrimage specifically for the Holy Souls. In 2006 over one hundred pilgrims ‘descended’ on this tiny village up in the mountains where ‘time has stood still’. In October 2007 our second large pilgrimage experienced a most prayerful, peaceful and fun-filled week. 54 pilgrims enjoyed the beauty of this place, both within the village itself and on our day trips out. If there was only one word to describe this place it is PEACE – prayerful
peace, meditative peace, relaxing peace, healing peace!
Fr. Thomas Kiernan, our Spiritual Director,
gave us a definite theme for the week. His teachings were Sacramental and
Eucharistic with a focus on the Suffering Christ upon the Cross and the
need for reconciliation. Most days started with morning Mass and ended
with a Holy Hour in front of the Blessed Sacrament exposed. Our liturgies
fitted in with those of the parish and on occasions Mass was later in the
evening. On the evening of our arrival we gathered together for Mass after
dinner.
After Mass and breakfast on Sunday, our first day in the village, we climbed to the Pines praying the Stations of the Cross, and after lunch we prayed the 3 o’clock Divine Mercy prayers in the church, recited the Rosary through the village to the cemetery, and the Chaplet for the Holy Souls outside the cemetery gates. In 2002 Pope John Paul II introduced the Luminous Mysteries, or Mysteries
of Light, and the villagers erected a Rosary path all the way up the mountain
with each of the 20 decades of the four mysteries. Monday was spent up
the mountain starting with the Stations of the Cross, a lunch break at
the pines and the full Rosary all the way to the top. Imagine telling others
that six hours were spent praying all the way up a mountain! What a lovely
way to spend a sunny autumn day as a community!
On Thursday our second day trip brought us to the Marian Shrine of Covadonga
and to the beautiful monastery of Santo Toribio de Liebana.
Santo Toribio is one of only five places with the privilege to celebrate a “Holy Year”, granted by a Papal Bull from Julius II in 1512, the others being Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela and Caravaca de la Cruz. The reason for this extraordinary privilege is that the Monastery guards the “Lignum Crucis” the largest known piece of the Cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified, brought here in the 7th century by Saint Toribio to protect it from possible capture by the moors. This lovely little
place of San Sebastian de Garabandal has had a centuries-old tradition
of devotions for the holy Souls with a local lady ringing a hand-bell every
evening reminding villagers to pray for the souls in Purgatory. During
the apparition years Our Lady ‘brought’ the children to the cemetery numerous
times asking them to pray for their dead. A pilgrimage here boosts both
the spiritual and the physical ‘batteries’ and the peace of this place
seeps into the heart and soul of the pilgrim.
PRAYER DAYS & PILGRIMAGES 2008NIGHT VIGIL FOR THE HOLY SOULSAFTERNOON OF PRAYER FOR THE HOLY SOULSAn afternoon of prayer
for the Holy Souls, 2pm – 6 pm on Sunday 9th November at Knock
Shrine. Starting with the Stations of the Cross (outside if the weather
is fine, inside the Parish Church if not). Introduction, Eucharistic Adoration,
Confessions, Holy Mass, HSC updates. Celebrating Priest to be confirmed.
PILGRIMAGESDIVINE MERCY SHRINE & AUSCHWITZ – MAY 2008Saturday May 17th
– Saturday May 24th 2008. Ex. Dublin to Krakow. 4 nights half
board (B&B + evening dinner) at the Pastoral Lodge, Divine Mercy Shrine,
Lagiewniki, Krakow; 3 nights full board (B&B, lunch & dinner) at
the Centre for Dialogue & Prayer, Auschwitz.
€600 – including trips to Jasna Gora Monastery in Cz?stochowa– home of the Black Madonna - Krakow, Kalwaria, Wadowice & Auschwitz Deposit: €250. Insurance not included DIVINE MERCY SHRINE & AUSCHWITZ – JUNE 2008Saturday June 21st
– Saturday June 28th 2008. Ex. Dublin to Krakow. 4 nights half
board (B&B + evening dinner) at the Pastoral Lodge, Divine Mercy Shrine,
Lagiewniki, Krakow; 3 nights full board (B&B, lunch & dinner) at
the Centre for Dialogue & Prayer, Auschwitz. Spiritual Director
to be confirmed.
€600 –
including trips to Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa– home of the Black
Madonna - Krakow, Kalwaria, Wadowice & Auschwitz
Deposit: €250. Insurance not included DIVINE MERCY SHRINE & AUSCHWITZ – SEPTEMBER 2008Saturday September
13th – Saturday September 20th 2008. Ex. Dublin to
Krakow.
5 nights half board
(B&B + evening dinner) at the Pastoral Lodge, Divine Mercy Shrine,
Lagiewniki, Krakow; 2 nights full board (B&B, lunch & dinner) at
the Centre for Dialogue & Prayer, Auschwitz. Only 50 places available
(this pilgrimage is almost half filled!) Spiritual Director: Fr. Denis
O'Sullivan SMA
€600 – including trips to Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa– home of the Black Madonna - Krakow, Kalwaria, Wadowice & Auschwitz Deposit: €250. Insurance not included. GARABANDAL – OCTOBER 2008Saturday 11th
October – Saturday 18th October 2008. Ex Dublin to Bilbao.
7 nights full board.
Spiritual Director: Fr. Martin Keane (known for his 'Healing the Family
Tree' Masses every Thursday in Kilcornan, Clarinbridge.)
€600 – including trips to Oviedo – home of the Sudarium, Covadonga – a Marian Shrine, Santo Toribio - home of the largest relic of the True Cross, and Potes. Deposit: €250. Insurance not included. For details please contact Mary at 091-798407 or 087-2255739The Holy Souls Crusade has been placed under the intercessory care of the Blessed Mother, St. Joseph, St. Pio, St. Gertrude, St. Nicholas of Tolentine – Patron Saint of the Souls in Purgatory, Saint Faustina, Pope John Paul II and Archdeacon Cavanagh of Knock. Following our Garabandal pilgrimage in October 2007 we have also placed the HSC under the care and protection of Archangel Raphael, patron of travellers, meetings, joy, marriage and health. Prayer to St. Raphael, Patron of the HSC Pilgrimages Angels of The Divine Mercy How You Can Help the Souls in Purgatory 1. Attend Masses offering them up for the Holy Souls. Have Masses said
for them.
Prayer of Saint Gertrude the Great (Our Lord promised to release
1,000 souls from Purgatory each time this prayer was recited piously)
9pm Saturday May 10th – 1am Sunday May 11th 2008
Ireland:
Eucharistic Adoration for the Holy Souls in the Adoration Chapel, Athenry,
Eucharistic Adoration for the Holy Souls in the Adoration Chapel near St. Peter’s Church, Castle St., Athlone, Co. Westmeath. On the last Saturday of every month from 4-5pm. Contact Maureen at 087-2985144 Healing the Family Tree Mass in Abbey Parish, Loughrea on the third Thursday of the month at 8pm – Contact Fr. Cathal Stanley 0909-745217 Northern Ireland:
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