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| Ormskirk Youths Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2012 |
The text of a recent talk given to parishioners at St. Anne's Church
“My name
is Eleanor and I’m one of over 450 young people from the Liverpool Diocese who will be travelling to Lourdes this summer.
Just to
tell you a little bit about the (voluntary) work we do when we’re in Lourdes,
it involves lots of late nights, early mornings and hard work, which
is all made worthwhile by the people you meet there and the
atmosphere that constantly surrounds you.
A typical
day will involve meeting the pilgrims at St. Frai hospital and
pushing them in their wheelchairs to a mass in the domain, or to the
baths or maybe even take them shopping or to a café in their free
time. The "Accueil Marie Saint-Frai" was the first hospital founded in Lourdes in 1874 and can receive up to 400 sick pilgrims.