[Catholic Caucus] Pentin: Chartres’ Record Number of Pilgrims Is a ‘Stunning Testimony to the TLM’s Popularity Among Young Catholics’

This article is from EdwardPentin.co.ok: More pilgrims than ever will be participating in the traditional Chartres pilgrimage this year — so many that, despite Traditionis Custodes and Pope Francis’ restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass, for the first time the organizers had to close registrations ten days early.

Over 16,000 pilgrims will be walking the route from St Sulpice Church in Paris to Notre-Dame Cathedral in Chartres over the Pentecost weekend, May 27-29 — a distance of about 60 miles.

The traditional and deeply historic pilgrimage which dates back to the 12th century was reinvigorated in 1983 by the Notre-Dame de Chrétienté Association, and in recent years, with the exception of the time of Covid, has been continually growing in popularity.

“Having walked the Chartres Pilgrimage every year for 30 years, I can say that there never was an expectation that it would sell out, since the Chartres city center is so large,” said Michael J. Matt, editor of the Remnant Newspaper who leads the American chapter, or group of pilgrims. “The fact that the pilgrimage has reached maximum capacity this year, is nothing less than a stunning testimony to the popularity of the Latin Mass among young Catholics.”

Last year I was grateful for the opportunity to take part in the pilgrimage for the first time (a record crowd of 15,000 also attended that year) and found it to be an enormously uplifting celebration of the faith, a chance to meet a hugely diverse group of mostly young fellow Catholics (the average age is 20.5 years this year), and to walk through the streets of Paris and beautiful French countryside to the picturesque medieval city of Chartres.

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Around 300 priests and religious will be walking the route this year and the priests will always be on hand to hear confessions. The Traditional Latin Mass is, of course, widely available. This year, on Pentecost Monday, the former apostolic nuncio to Ukraine and Switzerland, Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, will offer the solemn Pontifical Mass in Notre-Dame de Chartres in the presence of the Bishop of Chartres.

“It is our sincere hope,” Michael Matt said, “that the Vatican will see in this event a non-polemical and joyful expression of the youth, vitality, and unitive power of the Latin Mass.”

See Michael’s excellent recent documentary exploring the history, the present, and the future of the pilgrimage:

Link to documentary: "Guardian of Tradition"

Uhhh....stuck stubbornly to doctines, which are just expressions that are sometimes cold???

Careful there, Francis. Your penchant for rewriting the Bible or totally ignoring it (and what Jesus said) is showing.

And yeah, God was “sometimes cold”....to sinners, pagans, false prophets and to heretics (like you, for instance). But I have a feeling re: that....

that “you” ain’t seen nuthin YET, Francis.

I feel very sorry for that poor woman who had the misfortune of telling Bergoglio that she was raising two third-world children as Christians. Expecting an “atta girl” from the pope, she instead got an out-of-the-blue rebuke. Still self-satisfied about it years later, Bergoglio is still bragging about putting her in her place. Between the hand-slapping of this Asian woman and this favorite anecdote of his, I suspect that the man has a misogynistic streak (in one telling, he noted that she was “elegantly dressed”). Whatever is going on in his mind, he’s got to be just about the nastiest man to hold the office in at least the last 200 years.

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