Medjugorje & Fatima
September 28 - October 8, 2009
$2,679 Per Person From Moline, IL
Spiritual Director: Father Tim Sheedy
YOUR TRIP INCLUDES:
†
Airfare from
Moline, IL in economy class
Airport
taxes, Fuel surcharges and Security fees
(up to $520 per person)
9 nights in
comfortable accommodations as follows:
(or similar)
Sep
29-Oct 05 (6 nights) Modern home/inn with private baths,
Medjugorje
Oct 05-Oct 08 (3 nights) Hotel Santa Maria Jardim, Fatima ****
Breakfast and
Dinner daily
Wine, coffee
and tea with dinners
Transfers by
private deluxe motor coach
Holy Mass
Daily: English at 10:00am, and Croatian at 6:00pm
Escorted by
professional local Catholic guides
(Dragna or Slavenka in Medjugorje)
Sightseeing
and spiritual activities
Visit to
Nancy & Patrick at their home/castle
Meeting with
visionaries
(if visionaries are in Medjugorje during your trip and pending
availability)
Flight bag &
portfolio of all travel documents
Luggage
Handling at hotels
(1 piece per person)
Not included:
Optional Travel insurance at $129 per person (as per
www.206tours.com/insurance),
Lunches, Tips to home owners, guides & drivers ($8 per person per day),
Items of a personal nature.
Sample Day By Day Itinerary
September 28: Depart USA
Board your overnight transatlantic flights from Moline. Meals are served on board.
September 29: 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 six nights.
September 30 - October 4: 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.
Our guide will join us as we ascend Apparition Hill while we pray one of the mysteries of the rosary.
We will visit the Oasis of Peace, which has an incredible 24-hour Adoration Chapel.
During our stay will make our way to the “Castle” in Medjugorje, which is the home of Nancy and Patrick. We will listen to Nancy and Patrick share their conversion story and their lives in Medjugorje.
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.
October 5: Medjugorje - Fatima
We enjoy a leisurely breakfast before departing this afternoon for Split or Dubrovnik Airport (Croatia) for your flights to Lisbon. Upon arrival our evening arrival in Lisbon we will enjoy dinner before we continue on to Fatima, the place where the Blessed Mother appeared in 1917 to three simple shepherd children and exhorted mankind to pray for world peace. Dinner and overnight in Fatima
October 6 & 7: Lisbon - USA
Six times, from the May 13 to Oct 13, 1917, the Virgin Mary appeared to three shepherd children in the diocese of Leiria. A new church is under construction, however just as beautiful, an older church was constructed here in 1928, and millions of pilgrims visit each year. Fatima is one of the most visited holy places for Catholics from around the world. The atmosphere of intense spirituality and the importance of Fatima have been attested to by the visits of two Popes: Paul VI and John Paul II. Touring Fatima, see the Little Chapel of the Apparitions, Basilica, the site of Francesco and Jacinta's graves, the Hamlet of Aljustrel, where the children lived, and Valinhos, the site of Our Lady's appearance after the children's return from prison. Follow the Stations of the Cross along the Via Sacra (The Sacred Way) culminating in the Chapel of Calvary, which overlooks all of Fatima. Join pilgrims from around the world in an evening candlelight procession to pray the rosary. Dinner and overnight in Fatima.
October 8: Lisbon - USA
After breakfast, transfer to the airport to board your homebound flights to Moline.
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