Virtual Pilgrimage 2025

WE KNOW IT IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO ATTEND THE PHYSICAL PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES. ON THIS PAGE, WE WILL ADD VIDEOS, PRAYERS, HYMNS AND MUCH MORE SO PILGRIMS NOT IN LOURDES CAN FEEL PART OF THE PILGRIMAGE VIRTUALLY THIS YEAR. WE WILL KEEP YOU ALL IN OUR PRAYERS - PLEASE DO THE SAME FOR US. THANK YOU.

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Friday 29 August 2025

Daily Reflection from Fr. Nicholas King, SJ: Today our pilgrimage of hope comes to its end, and we bid farewell for the moment to this extraordinary place; some of you will not be able to get to mass before you start the journey home; but ask yourself now: • Has this been a pilgrimage? • In what sense has it been a pilgrimage? • Did you find yourself with Mary, perhaps late at night in the Grotto? • Are you filled with more hope than when you set off, such a long time ago? • And what will it be like to be back where you started from? Has your life changed, do you think?

Often there is a bit of time to look around, spend time in prayer and see some of the sites missed during the week whilst we await departure.

Thursday 28 August 2025

Daily Reflection from Fr. Nicholas King, SJ: As you will frequently have heard, this year’s pilgrimage is being known as “With Mary, Pilgrims of Hope”. As we come together to say, “goodbye and thank-you”, you may like to express your gratitude for what you have been given this year; and, of course, that means looking carefully and prayerfully over the last few days, and making sure that you have noticed all the good things that have come your way during these days. Perhaps make a list of them, and take them with you for the journey home, and for the year ahead. This is so as not to lose any of the gifts that you have been given. For example, what did our cherished visit to the Baths, including the Water Gesture, do for you today? One approach might be for you to read through the lovely gospel that is assigned for today, the story of the two disciples who met Jesus on the road to Emmaus, but did not realise that it was him. Instead they were concentrating on their own sadness and disillusion, expressed, in sad tones, as “we had hoped”. What were you hoping for from this year’s pilgrimage? Were you given it? Or did God and his Mother give you something else instead?

Thanksgiving Mass with the Glanfield Children’s Group

Jumbulance Departs

Wednesday 27 August 2025

Daily Reflection from Fr. Nicholas King, SJ: Today we remember the feast of St Monica, that very great lady, whose prayers for that wretched son of hers did so very much good. Today our pilgrimage has a great deal going on, with our precious Grotto mass, and our pilgrimage’s selfless act of accompanying Jesus round the Stations of the Cross.

Grotto Mass

Tuesday 26 August 2025

Daily Reflection from Fr. Nicholas King, SJ: Today our different pilgrimage groups, from various dioceses and schools, will celebrate in their own groups. Some may choose to celebrate the memory of the great Passionist, Blessed Dominic Barbieri, who did so much to restore Catholicism in England, back in the 19th Century. His life was very much a “pilgrimage of hope”, and may give us a few hints about how we are to live when our own 2025 pilgrimage of hope is finished, and we return to England (or wherever you are going to be living out the effects of this year’s pilgrimage). Then we are to imitate St Paul, who in our first reading can speak, daringly, of the “foolishness of God”, as part of his way of preaching the gospel. Start thinking now of how you are being called to preach the gospel at home.

Later the CA visited the vault to pay their respects for those who have gone before and honour their work that has meant the CA exists today. Please spend a moment to pray for the repose of the souls of pilgrims who have died in Lourdes and elsewhere. RIP.

Monday 25 August 2025

Daily Reflection from Fr Nicholas King, SJ: Today we have, what never fails to move us on our pilgrimage, our mass with anointing. It is, like all of this year’s “pilgrimage of hope”, something of a gesture of love, and as today’s gospel reminds us, love is really the only thing that matters. Love is precisely not a matter of winning an argument, but of opening out to the one thing that matters in life, namely the quiet gift of self that we see going on all the time here in Lourdes; and you will see it when you get back home, and even find yourself living that love. Watch today’s ceremony with the eyes of love, and see what a difference it makes.

Mass with Anointing

Blessed Sacrament Procession

Sunday 24 August 2025

Daily Reflection by Fr. Nicholas King, SJ:
Today’s gospel has Jesus making his pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This is very much a pilgrimage of hope, we know; for at the end of the journey Jesus is going to be brutally killed. We hear people asking Jesus how many people are likely to be “saved”; but they do not really get an answer, only the warning that it is not enough simply to go on a pilgrimage; we have to live out the hope. And we may need to remember at today’s “Service of Reconciliation” that we are not called to show how pious we are, but only to listen to God’s invitation. What are you being invited to do on this pilgrimage?

International Mass

Penitential Service

Torchlight Procession

Saturday 23 August 2025

At our opening mass today, we saw the helpers’ hands anointed ahead of the tasks that await them in the coming week on their Pilgrimage of Hope with Our Lady. The gospel reading for today is the wonderful story of the “Visitation”, when Mary, hearing that her elderly relative is unexpectedly pregnant, goes on that immense journey to the hill-country of Judaea to see what help she can give. What help might you be called upon to offer this week, after your own immense journey to the hill-country of the Pyrenees?

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Thank you to the new CA Comms Team (Andy, Ella, John, Matt, Nicole, Olivia, Sophy) for all their help in getting these images/videos organised for the virtual website. Thanks too to Phil Gibbons (Clifton) and Clive Bullock (Southwark), Christopher Atkin (Glanfield), Anthony Martin (Glanfield) and Trevor Fernandes (Glanfield) who have provided so many brilliant photos or videos so that we can share to the wider CA family.

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