Join Rev Conrad Osterhaut, CFR for a retreat to:

Medjugorje

March 20-28, 2009

Only * $1,899.00 per person from New York

Includes Airport, Fuel, and Security Taxes

Spiritual Director: Rev Conrad Osterhaut, CFR

Co-sponsored by Theresa Bonopartis of Lumina, A program of Good Counsel, Inc

YOUR TRIP INCLUDES:

Round-trip air from New York to Croatia/Bosnia-Herzegovina

Airport Taxes, Security and Fuel Surcharges    

7 nights Accommodation  in a modern home/hotel with private baths in Medjugorje      

Buffet Breakfast and Dinner daily

Wine included with dinners

Transportation by private deluxe motor coach

Holy Mass Daily

Escorted by professional local Catholic guides

Sightseeing and spiritual activities

Excursion to visit  Father Jozo

Visit to Community Cenacolo

Meeting with visionaries (if available)

Baggage handling ( 1 piece per person)

Flight bag & portfolio of all travel documents

       Not Included: Lunches,  Travel Insurance optional at $99-$225 Tips to your host family, guide & driver

                        (Euro 6-8 per day). Items of a personal nature.

                            Sample Day-by-Day Itinerary                             

March 20, Day 1 - Depart USA  

Board your overnight transatlantic flights from New Yrok.  Meals are served on board.

March 21, Day 2 - Arrive Medjugorje   

After an early morning arrival you'll be greeted by a tour guide and/or driver who will then take you on the 2 1/2 hour drive by private coach to the village of Medjugorje. Once there, you'll meet your fellow pilgrims and your spiritual leader and be introduced to your host family in whose comfortable yet modest house (inn) you will be staying for the next seven nights.

March 22 – March 27, Days 3 to 8 - Medjugorje 

Experience the beauty and peace of this simple village. During your stay in Medjugorje you will have the opportunity to share faith with pilgrims from all over the world. 

Here are some of the activities we'll be sharing with our fellow pilgrims: Each morning at 10am we assemble at St James Church for the English-language Mass (Feast days and Sundays English Mass is at Noon). Follow the path up Apparition Hill where the visionaries first encountered Our Lady. Touch and pray before the cross that commemorates the spot where Mary first appeared to the visionaries.  

Each evening at 5pm or 6pm daylight savings time, we will join the villagers and pilgrims to pray the rosary. The apparition takes place at 5:40pm or 6:40 daylight savings time, (visionaries may not be present) and then stay on for Croatian Mass. Don't miss on Thursdays and Saturdays Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and on Fridays Veneration of the Cross in the Church. Each evening during Croatian Mass, there is the Blessing of the Sick and blessing of the items you have with you.

Our guide will arrange meetings with the visionaries at their own homes provided that they are in Medjugorje during your trip, and pending their availability. We will have the opportunity to climb Krizevac Mountain, where in 1933 the villagers built a 30' high cross on the anniversary of Jesus' crucifixion. Visit and pray at "Blue Cross", which is a place of great healings and graces- a very special place at the base of Apparition Hill.

We will visit the Oasis of Peace, which has an incredible 24-hour Adoration Chapel. We will visit the community of Cenacolo.

Visit Father Jozo's parish and attend his highly inspirational talk, and receive his powerful healing blessing. When the apparitions began in 1981, Father Jozo was the pastor of St James parish, and is considered by many to be one of the highlights of any pilgrimage to Medjugorje. Of course, visit is contingent upon his schedule.

March 28, Day 9 - Medjugorje - USA     

After an early breakfast and heartfelt farewells, we leave by motor coach for return flight to New York.