Medjugorje Pilgrimages

March 12-22, 2010  -  $1,429 from Newark

with Father Neil Buchlein

YOUR TRIP INCLUDES:
Round-trip air from New York (Add-on Airfares from all US gateways)
       9 nights in a modern home/hotel with private baths in Medjugorje
Buffet Breakfast and dinner daily
Wine with dinners
Transfers by private motor coach
Holy Mass Daily: English at 10:00am, and Croatian at 6:00pm
Assistance of Spiritual Director
Escorted by professional local Catholic guides
Sightseeing and spiritual activities
Visit to Community Cenacolo
Meeting with visionaries (pending availability)
Flight bag & portfolio of all travel documents

Not Included: AIRPORT TAXES security fees and all fuel surcharges, Lunches, Travel Insurance optional at $165-$225. Tips to your host family, guide & driver (Euro 6-8 per day). Items of a personal nature.

Sample Day-by-Day Itinerary:
Day 1 - Depart USA
Board your overnight transatlantic flights from your home town. Meals are served on board.

Day 2 - Arrive Medjugorje
After an early morning arrival in Frankfurt (Munich or Vienna) you will connect flights to Dubrovnik (Split or Sarajevo). Upon 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. Guide will be with your throughout your stay. 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 nine nights.

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 , we will join the villagers and pilgrims to pray the rosary. The apparition takes place at 5:40pm, 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 community of Cenacolo.

Day 9 - Medjugorje - USA
After an early breakfast and heartfelt farewells, we leave by motor coach for Dubrovnik Airport (Split or Sarajevo) for return flights home.