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...