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Pilgrimage to the Shrines of Philadelphia
Monday June 15, 2009
$97 Per Person
Bus Pickup 6:30 AM at
Fr. Dennis Kleinmann, St. Mary Catholic Church, |
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Celebrate Mass at the Basilica
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| John Paul II celebrating Solemn Mass at the Basilica in 1999. Alltogether 24 popes have officially honored Our Lady of Guadalupe. His Holiness John Paul II visited her Sanctuary three times: on his first apostolic trip outside Rome as Pope in 1979, and again in 1990 and 1999. |
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| The present church was constructed on the site of an earlier 16th-century church that was finished in 1709 (the Old Basilica). The New Basilica was built nearby; the original image of the Virgin of Guadalupe is now housed in this New Basilica. Yearly, an estimated 10 million visit her Basilica, making her Mexico City home the most popular Marian shrine in the world, and the most visited Catholic church in the world next to St. Peter’s in Rome. |
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Discover the Shrine of Our Lady
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| An incredible list of miracles, cures andinterventions are attributed to her. During the 1999 visit Pope John Paul II entrusted the cause of life to her loving protection, and placed under her motherly care the innocent lives of children, especially those who are in danger of not being born. |
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Follow the footsteps of Saint Juan Diego
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Our Lady called him “Juanito, Juan Dieguito “, “the most humble of my sons”, “my son the least”, “my little dear”.
Pope John Paul II praised Juan Diego for his simple faith nourished by catechesis and pictured him (who said to the Blessed Virgin Mary: “I am a nobody, I am a small rope, a tiny ladder, the tail end, a leaf”) as a model of humility for all of us. |
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| The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated on December 12th. In 1999, Pope John Paul II, in his homily from the Solemn Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, during his third visit to the sanctuary, declared the date of December the 12th as a Liturgical Holy Day for the whole continent. |
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| Located at the heart of the Americas, Mexico City has been a center of life and commerce for over 2,000 years. Teotihuacans, Toltecs, Aztecs, and European conquistadors have all contributed to the city's fascinating evolution, art, and religeous heritage. The world famous Museo Nacional de Antropologia demonstrates the mysterious remains of Mexico’s pre-Columbian civilization. |
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