Lourdes Pilgrimage Experience

400 Michigan Avenue Northeast,Washington DC 20017

19 November, 2022

Description

Mary’s Shrine invites the faithful to a special Lourdes Pilgrimage Experience on Saturday, November 19. Sponsored by Our Lady of Lourdes Hospitality North American Volunteers, the pilgrimage will offer a tangible experience of Lourdes as well as a Plenary Indulgence granted by Pope Francis for those who attend, under the usual conditions. During the Lourdes Pilgrimage Experience, pilgrims will be immersed in the Message of Lourdes through prayer, commentary, and catechesis; have an opportunity to touch an actual piece of the Grotto Rock where Our Lady, the Immaculate Conception, appeared to Saint Bernadette in 1858; and prepare their own petitions to be hand-delivered to the Grotto in France. Pilgrims will also pray the Rosary during Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and, following Benediction, will participate in a candlelight procession to the Basilica’s Chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes, a replica of the Grotto. Pilgrims will also receive a bottle of authentic, undiluted Lourdes Water from the Spring in Lourdes as a keepsake. What better way to virtually experience Lourdes than to attend this pilgrimage at our nation’s preeminent Marian shrine and patronal church, the Basilica of the National Shrine, dedicated to our Lady under her title of the Immaculate Conception. Those who attend are invited to begin their pilgrimage with Mass at 12:10 pm in the Crypt Church and complete it with the 4:30 pm Vigil Mass of the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, in the Great Upper Church.