Join the former director of Honolulu’s Newman Center/Holy Spirit Parish, Jesuit Father Russell Roide, for a pilgrimage next summer to the shrines of Spain, Lourdes, Fatima and Paris.
Father Roide will be the spiritual director of trip sponsored by 206Tours. The dates for the complete pilgrimage, which also offers shorter options, are June 5 to June 20.
The pilgrimage begins in Barcelona, Spain, with an excursion to the Monastery of Our Lady of Montserrat where St. Ignatius Loyola began his conversion by placing his sword at the statue of the Black Madonna and exchanging his noble clothes with those of a beggar. He then went to Manresa about seven miles away and lived in a cave where he wrote his Spiritual Exercises which were refined during theological studies in Paris. The cave now houses a retreat house.
In Spain, the pilgrimage will also visit Madrid, Toledo and Santiago de Compostela. It will continue on to Lisbon, Fatima, Salamanca, Avila (home of St. Teresa), the famous Cathedral of Burgos, Loyola (where St. Ignatius was born), and finally Lourdes.
Go to www.pilgrimages.com/frroide for more information and the options. If you want a personal brochure, send your name and address to Father Russell Roide, SJ, at rroide@bcp.org. For information from 206Tours, contact Rinda or Stefanie at (800) 206-8687 or Rinda@206tours.com or Stefanie@206tours.com.
Last summer, 15 pilgrims from Hawaii accompanied Father Roide to the Holy Land and Rome. 206Tours is a specialist in religious pilgrimages all over the world.