Our Next Faith Community Pilgrimage

Our next faith community Pilgrimage

Remember we went on pilgrimage last year out to the National Shrine to Blessed Nicholas. It was an outing that we made together in solidarity and in faith. We travelled together, we worshipped together, we prayed together, we broke bread together. We enjoyed together. As far as I know, it was a time loved by all, a time of prayer and growth.

Well, we are now in the midst of a Holy Year, which calls us to be Pilgrims of Hope. Pilgrimage is at the centre of any Holy Year. Some of us are truly blessed and get to go on pilgrimage to Rome or do the el Camino. Many of us do not get that opportunity, but pilgrimage remains open to all of us.

During this Holy Year, four churches in the archdiocese, as in every diocese, are named as places of pilgrimage. One of these is the historic St Joseph’s parish church in Ayutthaya, where we are planning our next pilgrimage for Saturday 16^th August.

This Holy Year has been full of so much befalling our world. Our beloved Pope Francis died. I do miss him. We now have Pope Leo XIV. We are so blessed with good and loving Popes. Now our world is falling into the trap of continual and growing wars. We just don’t learn. It just leaves me speechless. Pope Leo reminds us not to fall into the trap of just accepting war as normal. There is the continuing, deteriorating condition of our planet. I also know and acknowledge the various life challenges we all face. We have much to pray for, to give thanks for and to do it together. So let us go on pilgrimage again.

John P Murray osa – 30^th June, 2025

Here is a link to an article about the church.