Young scouts and leaders filled the church of Saint Sulpice for high Mass early Saturday morning May 27th to begin the three day event. The overflow crowd surrounding the church for the Mass is partly visible in next photo below.
The pilgrims were greeted along the way as we walked through Paris.
Our journey took us through the variety of French countryside: village, forest, field and highway.
The Mass tents on Saturday and Sunday morning accommodated 300 priests for daily holy Mass.
On the road to God, led by faith and persevering in hope.
Solemn High Mass for Pentecost Sunday in a natural arena to accommodate the thousands who worshipped.
A tangible sign of pilgrim’s progress: we’ve advanced 56k distance from Paris en route to our goal of Chartres cathedral.
Every step taken in faith is a cooperation with grace: we are never alone on the journey.
Pilgrims kneel and pray in thanksgiving at first sight of the yet distant spires of Chartres.
Like the New Jerusalem the spires point heavenward speaking ever of the goal of every pilgrim from here to eternity in the life of faith.
Life is a pilgrimage. Each day’s steps bring us closer to our goal when taken in faith for such always lead to God.
Archbishop Gullickson offers prayers of Thanksgiving in the sacristy after solemn High Mass of Whit Monday which concluded the pilgrimage at Chartres.
Like the Romanesque and Gothic spires of Chartres, tradition blends harmoniously through the ages, faithful to God and leading ever toward Him because built securely on the truth of divine Revelation.
The Archbishop sends his best wishes and prayers to Rorate Caeli visitors.
For more on the pilgrimage read my account in The Wanderer Catholic Newspaper.
And when Bergoglio passes, he will need lots of prayers from these young people to get out of Purgatory, if he even makes it there.
And the narcissist even has joked that he'll be the next pope to be canonized, after John Paul II and John XXIII, and that his pet homo, Teddy McCarrick, was so long-lived because the devil had not yet prepared his room.
When Pope Francis joked about Cardinal McCarrick going to hell
The Pope responded to McCarrick, “But on the other hand, maybe the Devil did not have your accommodations ready.”
And this was all before Archbishop Vigano revealed that McCarrick was a notorius homo and Bergoglio had known all about it.
