Join us on a Retreat-Pilgrimage to the
Shrines of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist
Poland & Lithuania
In the footsteps of John Paul II,St. Faustina, St. Raphael Kalinowski OCD
St. Teresa Benedicta Of the Cross, OCD (Edith Stein)
Solemnity of Corpus Christi Celebration in Krakow
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Spiritual Directors: Rev. Peter M. Aquino & Rev. Andrew Wasko
Group leader: Gloria Sison
May 15-27, 2008 $2,789 per person from New York or Newark
YOUR TRIP INCLUDES:
• Round Trip airfare from New York to Warsaw return from Vilnius
• Accommodations/Hotels (4 stars other than where not available):
May 16-17 : (1 night) Hotel Radisson SAS in Warsaw
May 17-18: (1 night) Hotel Magda in Lichen
May 18-19: (1 night) Hotel Mercure Patria in Czestochowa
May 19-20: (1 night) Hotel Mercure Kasprowy in Zakopane
May 20-22: (2 nights) Hotel Radisson SAS in Krakow
May 22-23: (1 night) Hotel Grand in Lodz
May 23-24: (1 night) Hotel in Olsztyn
May 24-25: (1 night) Hotel Daniela in Kaunas
May 25-27: (2 nights) Hotel Reval Lietuva/Vilnius
• Breakfast and dinner daily
• Transfers as per itinerary
• Tour Escort throughout your stay
• Sightseeing and entrance fees as per itinerary
• Mass, Eucharistic Adoration, Holy Hours, Rosary Spiritual Activities Daily
• Luggage handling
• Flight bag and portfolio of travel documents
Not included: Airport Taxes approximately $320. (subject to change), Beverages at dinner, Travel insurance optional at $169, Lunches, Tips to guide & driver ($6 - $8. per person, per day)
May 15 /Day 1 Depart New York or Newark to Warsaw Poland
May 16 / Day 2 Arrive Warsaw Your tour director is at the airport to warmly greet you and soon you're comfortably settled at your hotel. Upon arrival Mass and Visit 3-9 Zytnia Street where Faustina entered the convent. Time permitting we will visit the landmarks of Warsaw. Visit of St. James Church. The rest of the day is to relax. This evening enjoy welcome dinner and a show at a local restaurant.
May 17 / Day 3 Warsaw - Plock- Glogowiec - Swinice Warckie - Lichen After breakfast depart Warsaw with stops in Plock and Glogowiec, afternoon stop in Swinice Warckie to visit the parish church St. Casimir where St. Faustina was baptized Helen Kowalska. Later drive for Lichen for dinner and overnight.
May 18/ Day 4 Lichen - Czestochowa Visit Lichen's lovely Queen of Peace Shrine and Basilica, one of the most famous shrines in Poland. Next we travel for dinner and overnight to Czestochowa, which our Holy Father John Paul II, has frequently visited Jasna Gorna Monastery, known as the Shrine of the Black Madonna. Time permitting tonight or tomorrow morning visit the Pauline Monastery and venerate the priceless treasures contained within, including the Miraculous Icon
May 19 / Day 5 Czestochowa - Auschwitz - Wadowice - Zakopane Leave Jasna Gora Monastery and the Black Madonna picture, one of the most important places of religious worship in the Christian world, with tradition of pilgrimages that goes back to the 14th century. Drive to Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi concentration camp. We will see the cell that imprisoned St Maximillian Kolbe and the Martyrdom Museum recalling the horrors of the Holocaust. We will visit Carmel in Birkenau, and the Martyrdom of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein). Next travel to Zakopane, with a stop along the way in Wadowice, the birthplace of Karol Wojtyla. Visit the
house where the Pope, John Paul II, was born. It has since been turned into a shrine-like museum. We will also visit the church he was attended and was baptized as a child. Visit Carmel of St. Raphael Kalinowski (Sanctuary of St. Joseph). Next we continue on to Zakopane, a resort village nestled in the splendor of the Tatras region. This afternoon we take a cable car ride to the nearby mountaintop for extraordinary views. Time permitting visit Kalwaria Zybrzydowska. Dinner and overnight.
May 20 / Day 6 Zakopane – Ludzmierz – Krakow Before we leave beautiful Zakopane, for the great city of Krakow, we invite you to follow a short distance on one of John Paul II's walking trails of the Zakopane region, a beautifully situated place within Tatras Mountains in the valley between Gubalowka and Giewont. Zakopane and its vicinity is something of a mountain folklore reserve, with many earls of typical wooden architecture. Horse-drawn carriages will take you to Kalatowki (optional). Admire picturesque landscapes of Polish highest mountains and visits the Hermitage of St. Brother Albert, founder of the Albertines Order. Visit Our Lady Of Fatima Church that was built in Thanksgiving to Our Lady of Fatima for Pope John Paul II being saved from Assassin’s Bullet in St. Peters Square in 1981. A short walk along colorful Krupowki Street for some last minute shopping in the local bazaar. We will stop at the beautiful Marian sanctuary, of the Virgin Queen of Podhale at Ludzmierz and hundreds of years old timber Church at Debno. We will celebrate Holy Mass and Adoration here. On route to Krakow we will stop at the Tieliczka Salt .
Mines. Arrival in ancient Cracow, recently chosen by the European Union as the Cultural Capital of Europe. Dinner & overnight
May 21 / Day 7 Krakow - Devine Mercy Visit Wawel Cathedral where Pope John Paul II offered his 1st Holy Mass and BLDG # 21 Deanery. Later depart for our day's excursion to Lagiewniki. The capital of the Divine Mercy. It was here that originated the message of the Divine Mercy, which Christ Himself wished to pass on to our generation, through the mediation of St. Faustina. The Sanctuary houses grace-working image of Merciful Jesus and the relics of St. Faustina. We will visit the Shrine of Divine Mercy, St. Faustina's convent chapel, and we will visit St. Faustina's Tomb.
May 22 / Day 8 Krakow Solemnity of Corpus Christi Celebration - Lodz After breakfast we will head to the Corpus Christi Celebration. We explore Market Square and hear the silver trumpet of the bugler from St Mary's Tower. Within the Cathedral you may pray before the extraordinary Wit Stwosz altar. The surroundings of the square have remained unchanged for almost 700 years and contain buildings of historic value such as St. Mary's Church with the famous wooden altar, the Town Hall Tower, the Cloth Hall and the burgher's houses. Tour the Cathedral, Coronation Chapel and the Royal Chambers where a superb collection of arras tapestries is on view. Depart Krakaw in the afternoon for dinner and overnight in Lodz.
May 23 / Day 9 Lodz- Zelazowa Wola - Niepokalanow - Olsztyn Depart Lodz and continue to Zelazowa Wola, birthplace of Frederick Chopin Continue to Niepokalanow, see a franciscan Monastery founded by St. Maximillian Kolbe and home of Basilica of Virgin Mary. Dinner and overnight in lsztyn.
May 24 / Day 10 Olsztyn – Gietrzwalt - Kaunas One of Eastern Europes best kept secrets, Our Lady of Gietrzwald Shrine is the Home to the only Church approved Marian Apparition, in Poland from the 19th Century and Miraculous image of the blessed virgin that was crowned by the future pope John Paul II on September 8, 1967.Stop in Gietrzwalt known as the Polish Lourdes and famous for a miraculous revelation of the Virgin Mary in 1877. Afternoon sightseeing tour of Kaunas, including Kaunas Castle, St. George Church, Seminary, Town Hall Square, architectural ensemble of Jesuits' Monastery, Church of the Holy Trinity, The Old Post-office, Arch-Cathedral Basilica, Vytautas Church, Perkţnas (Thunder) House, Vilniaus Street and Laisves Avenue. Dinner and overnight.
May 25 / Day 11 Kaunas - Siaulia - Hill of Crosses - Panevezys -VilniusBreakfast, check-out from hotel, transfer to Siauliai, en route we will stop for visit of Siluva Church, Our Lady of Siluva, the Church-approved Marian apparition in Lithuania Hill of Crosses (20-30 minutes drive from Siaulia), return to Siaulia, follow with short city sightseeing tour. Later continue drive to Vilnius. En route sightseeing of Panevezys. Arrive Vilnius for dinner and overnight.
May 26 / Day 12 Vilnius After breakfast start our full day sightseeing tour of Vilnius. Our tour will include Old Town with Vilnius Cathedral (entrance) where the tomb of St. Casimir, Patron Saint of Lithuania is laid St. Anna's Church, St. Bernadine's Church, Old University, KGB museum, the Chapel of Dawn with the Madonna of Vilnius, Gediminas Tower (Upper Castle), The Church of the Holy Spirit, where the original painting, the first image of the Divine Mercy as revealed to St. Faustina by our Lord Jesus has been enshrined, St. Peter's and Paul Church, return to hotel for dinner and overnight.
May 27 / Day 13 Vilnius to USA : Breakfast and transfer to Vilnius Airport for our return flight to US.
Please contact us with any questions or for additional information:
Gloria Sison Tel. (732) 750-4613 Or E-mail: mariagloriacarmel@verizon.net
Sandra or Liz at 206 Tours Tel. 1800 206 TOUR or E-mail Sandra@206tours.com or Liz@206tours.com
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