Itinerary and Activities While in Medjugorje
(11-12 days pilgrimage)
Departure
In Medjugorje
Journey Back Home
Day 1:
- Depart on the overnight flight from Toronto to a city in Europe, dinner on board.
- Have a good night sleep and wake up with a refreshing breakfast.
Day 2:
- Arrive our mid-destination and ready for a connecting flight to Croatia or Bosnia & Herzegovina.
- Upon arrival, we will board a private coach from the airport for a 2 and half hour drive to Medjugorje. We expect to arrive early in the evening.
- A license English speaking guide will greet us at the airport and accompany us on the way to Medjugorje with the coach.
- Dinner will be served once we arrived at the hotel.
- Join the local evening prayer program with rosary, Holy Mass if time is permitted. The evening prayer program is the heart of the program in Medjugorje.
- Rest and sleep well for the night.
Day 3:
- Begin our spiritual and prayerful pilgrimage with a full breakfast in the morning to be followed by attending the English Holy Mass. An orientation by a local pilgrimage guide will follow. The orientation will be on the apparition and facilities on the holy ground of Medjugorje.
- Dinner will be served early evening and after dinner, we will join the evening prayer program organized by the Medjugorje Parish.
- The evening program will include the praying of the Rosary, an evening Holy Mass and Healing prayers for the sick, Veneration of the Cross, the Eucharistic Adoration, depending on the days of the week.
- Confessions will be available throughout the evening programs hours every day of the week. Priests from different parts of the world, speaking different languages will be available to listen to your confession.
Day 4-11:
- Attending English Holy Mass in the morning.
- Taking part in the talks and testimonies as available.
- Climb and pray on the Apparition Hill and the Cross Mountain as time and weather permits.
- Visit some, but not all of the spiritual places of interest surrounding Medjugorje: Cenacolo, Mother’s Village, Latta Castle of Nancy and Patrick, St. Anthony’s Church in Humac, Church of Elijah in Tihaljna, Divine Mercy Church in Surmanci, as time and pilgrimage schedule permits.
- Pray at the prayerful locations on the St. James Church holy ground.
- Attend the evening program as outlined for Day 3 above.
- Reconciliation with Our Lord by going to confession while in Medjugorje.
Day 12:
- End of pilgrimage. Depart Medjugorje in the morning and work our way back to Toronto on a reversed itinerary as described on Day 1 and Day 2 above.
- Arrive on the same day in Toronto.
- Unpack the tasks that Our Lady entrusted you while in Medjugorje and start sharing your Medjugorje experience with your family and friends.
Your pilgrimage begins on the day you start to go home.
The following is sourced from the book “Pray with the Heart” by Fr. Slavko Barbarić.
(Source: Fr. Slavko Barbarić, Pray with the Heart, (2017), Informativni centar „Mir“ Međugorje,)
When you return home
Medjugorje is for us what Mount Tabor was for the disciples: to convince us that it is possible to live love and to experience the glory of God. But then one has to return home, to one’s own Jerusalem, to one’s own daily life, to work, to school, among people who do not share the same convictions.
Yes, one has to return home.
In Medjugorje, you prayed for long hours in the church. It was not difficult for you to climb Cross Mountain no matter if the weather was good or bad. You also found time for Apparition Hill. And you were fine. Now forget the parish community of Medjugorje and go back home. In your heart, take along the places and events of Medjugorje.
We know one thing: at home, you have your own Cross Mountain, your own cross and your own suffering. You left it at home and it is waiting for you. But have no fear. Križevac is not more difficult to climb than your Cross Mountain back home, but it became understandable and accessible for many since, by the will of God, the lower hill, the Apparition Hill, became a place of intense communion with God through Mary. Therefore, although your Cross Mountain back home—often built with troubles and sufferings for which you are neither responsible nor to blame—is standing and waiting for you, build a smaller hill next to it, build your own Apparition Hill, your own Mount Tabor. Then your Cross Mountain too will take on a new colour, will be wrapped up in a new peace and hope. Build the Apparition Hill in one corner of your apartment or house. Place there a crucifix, a candle, the Bible, rosary beads and a kneeler. There you will understand your Cross Mountain, your passage and your trespassing [trespassing?]. By the side of Apparition Hill, Cross Mountain becomes a place of resurrection, for no Cross Mountain is there to destroy you, but to help you attain salvation.
Remember well: Our Lady has taken Christ’s words seriously. She climbs with you your Cross Mountain, your Calvary, as she said in the message for Christmas, 1986:
“Dear children! Also today, I give thanks to the Lord for all that He is doing to me, especially for this gift to be with you also today. Dear children, these are the days in which the Father gives special graces to all those who open their hearts. I bless you, and I want that you too, dear children, become aware of these graces and put everything at God’s disposal, so that He may be glorified through you. My heart carefully watches over each one of your steps. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (25 December 1986)
This message is not only for those who are in Medjugorje, or for the visionaries only. It is given to me, to you, to everyone. Go home, forever blessed by the Forever Blessèd, and build an altar, on which you will start to offer daily your crosses and pains, your woes and troubles, your hopes and joys, your love and faith. In this way, you will have your church, your Cross Mountain and your Apparition Hill. Thus, God will be with you, and Mary will carefully watch over each one of your steps.
Go in peace. Carry peace and blessing.
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