What an experience! Despite blazing sunshine, blisters, sleepless nights etc...
For anyone who has not been, it is hard to convey both how tough and how rewarding the pilgrimage is.
The Masses in the woods, and the final Mass in Chartres Cathedral, are of course highlights; but so are so many other moments: seeing the endless procession wending its way through the French fields, singing Chez Nous; unexpected meetings and rapid friendships -and the renewal of old ones; being amongst so many young committed Catholics, all marching in honour of the BVM; sudden moments of grace - in a meditation, a rosary, or the song of a bird...
If you've been you will know how inadequate that brief summary is; if you have not been: put it in your diary for Pentecost next year!
OLDIE PODCAzT 59: St Leo the Great on Pentecost fasting; Benedict XVI’s
Pentecost sermon
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Here is an OLDIE PODCAzT from 2008 ___ Today is Thursday in the Octave of
Pentecost, or at least it ought to be in in the Novus Ordo as it is in the
older,...
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