Lourdes Pilgrimage 2025 & 2026

Evening departure from your local airport for your connecting flights to France. Dinner and breakfast will be served on board the overnight flight.

Upon your arrival in Toulouse or Pau Airport, you will meet your tour escort, and transfer to your hotel in Lourdes. You will have time to relax or explore the area before dinner at the hotel. After dinner, you may join the beautiful Marian candlelight procession at 9 pm before retiring to your hotel overnight.

Over these two days, you will enjoy guided tours that include watching a video presentation about the story of Lourdes, attending Mass at the Grotto, and walking in the footsteps of Saint Bernadette.  You will visit the Boly Mill, where Saint Bernadette was born, and the Cachot, an abandoned prison that housed her impoverished family.  Join your prayers with those of pilgrims from around the world as you pray for the sick, drink from the miraculous spring, and participate in the Water Gesture, or immerse yourself in the healing baths if available. Experience Christ’s love as you walk the life-sized Stations of the Cross overlooking the Holy Grotto, and kneel in the chapel built on the very rock of the Grotto in obedience to the Immaculate Conception’s request.  Evenings are free for you to join the Blessed Sacrament Procession at 5 pm before dinner or participate in the Marian candlelight procession and Group Rosary starting at 9 pm.

This pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, is designed for those who wish to spend more time in Lourdes to pray and reflect on their own. During these three days, there will not be a spiritual director or tour guide with you; however, daily Masses and various spiritual activities are available to all English-speaking pilgrims.

• Mass in English is celebrated daily in the Chapel of Sts. Cosmas and Damian at 11:00 am,
• International Mass is at 9:30 am every Sunday, Wednesday, and Feast days (Ascension and Assumption) in St. Pius X Basilica,
• Confessions in English are heard every day at 9:00 am-11:00 am / 3:30 pm-6:00 pm in the Chapel of Reconciliation,
• The Rosary in English is prayed at the Grotto at 3:00 pm.  Rosary is at the Grotto every Monday and Wednesday and is also broadcast on EWTN.
• The Film about Lourdes is at 4:00 pm at the Information Center.  It is very well done.
• The Way of the Cross is open between 6:00 am-10:00 pm for both the High Stations and the Low Stations (note: the High Stations are not accessible to pilgrims with physical disabilities)
• Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is available between 9:00 am-5:00 pm and between 6:00 pm-8:00 pm in the Chapel of Adoration, and 11:30 pm-12 midnight at the Grotto.
• The Eucharistic Procession begins at 5:00 pm every day.  Gather at the podium in the Prairie in good weather.  During bad weather, gather in the Basilica of St. Pius X.
• Marian Candlelight Procession and Rosary begins at 9:00 pm each night.  Not to be missed.

On one of your free days, you might consider taking an optional day tour to Biarritz, Val D’Aran, or the Betharram Caves, which can be arranged through our local agent for an additional fee.  Dinner and overnight stays will be at your hotel in Lourdes each evening.

After an early breakfast, you will transfer to the airport for your return flights home with fond memories and blessings from your pilgrimage to Lourdes.

Disclaimer:
Occasionally local religious and national holidays, weather, traffic conditions and other events may necessitate changes in the sequence of events or the missing of certain events/places. Though every effort will be made to follow the itinerary, it should be considered as an indication, rather than a contract of events and places to be visited.