Pilgrim Diaries – Italy 2022

Pilgrim Diaries – Italy 2022

Wednesday, 7th September: Fr Matthew is on his way to join about 20 Chaplaincy students and young adults on a pilgrimage to and in Italy. Over the next couple of weeks, they will be sharing their experiences on our social media. Please keep an eye out for those, and...
Pilgrim Diary: Ye-Ye Xu (OCULP 2022)

Pilgrim Diary: Ye-Ye Xu (OCULP 2022)

    A poor, sick, but happy girl was gathering firewood by a stream. It was muddy; in a cave. She was fourteen, gathering firewood for two parents and eight siblings who all lived prayerfully in one room of a small house. They were in Lourdes, a town by the...
Pilgrim Diary: Nathan Coundon (OCULP 2022)

Pilgrim Diary: Nathan Coundon (OCULP 2022)

    This was my first time in Lourdes, and it has taken me days to reflect upon the graces that God and Mary gave us as a group, and me personally, during the week. I encountered Lourdes as a place where heaven is extraordinarily close to earth; whilst that...
Pilgrim Diary: Jasmine Jones (OCULP 2022)

Pilgrim Diary: Jasmine Jones (OCULP 2022)

Time is transcended and Heaven touches earth. The week of the Oxford-Cambridge Universities Lourdes Pilgrimage 2022 was one endless day, structured by a succession of extraordinary events — ordinary occurrences in this magnificent Marian shrine. Stepping into the...