Our 102nd pilgrimage to Lourdes will depart next week.

This year's pilgrimage will take on extra significance, as it is the first archdiocesan trip since the announcement that the cure of Jack Traynor in Lourdes in 1923 was declared miraculous.

Our pilgrims will be there for eight days - with Archbishop John Sherrington and pilgrimage director Fr Grant Maddock leading the group of 1,200.

Our youth pilgrims will start their coach journey 24 hours before and arrive at the Shrine the next day.

If you want to follow our pilgrims from home, please see below a full schedule of what our pilgrims will be up to. All times listed are local time.

You can also follow the Masses from the grotto live on YouTube. Just follow this link. Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Lourdes - YouTube

Thursday 24 July

20:00 - Youth Mass – St Bernadette Church

20:30 - Mass - St Joseph Chapel

Friday 25 July

10.00 - Welcome meeting for new Pilgrims

14:15 - Mass of Welcome & Anointing – St Bernadette Church

Pilgrimage photograph following Mass

Saturday 26 July

09:00 - Mass – St Bernadette Church

20:30 - Lourdes, a place of prayer - Notre Dame Chapel

Sunday 27 July

08:30 - Mass - Grotto

14:30 - Prayer/Reconciliation - St Joseph Chapel

17:00 - Blessed Sacrament Procession

Monday 28 July

11:00 - Mass – St Bernadette Church

15:00 - Rosary at the Grotto

16:30 - Passage through the Grotto

21:00 - Holy Hour – Notre Dame Chapel

Tuesday 29 July

11:00 - Mass – St Bernadette Church

14:00 - Way of the Cross – Lower Stations

14.15 - Way of the Cross – High Stations

21:00 - Torchlight Procession

Wednesday 30 July

14:00 - Mass of Thanksgiving– Underground basilica

Lighting of pilgrimage candle after Mass

20:00 - Youth Mass – St Bernadette Church

Thursday 31 July

08:30 - Mass – St Joseph Chapel