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 seven 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 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.
