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| View of Maastricht from Jan Skerk |
A pilgrimage is a journey or search of great moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith. Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their "calling" or spiritual awakening, or of their connection (visual or verbal) with the divine, or to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be "housed," or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers. Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit: to be healed or have questions answered or to achieve some other spiritual benefit. A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim. In America, the term pilgrim is typically associated with an early colonial protestant sect known for their strict rules of discipline.
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| World Youth Day celebration is the biggest pilgrimage event in a Catholics Life. Photo by mjohn2101. |
As part of the Catholic community in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, we take part in the yearly Pilgrimage of our community. This year, our Deanery will take us to Maastricht, Netherlands on May 28, 2011.
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| Sunset at Maastricht. Photo by Bert Kaufmann. |
Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river (Dutch: Maas) in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border (with both the Dutch-speaking Flemish and French-speaking Walloon region within easy reach from the city centre) and near the German border. The city is part of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, the Euregio that includes Aachen, Hasselt and Liège in respectively Germany and Belgium.
If you are interested to join the English Catholic Community of Saint Thomas More where we are a member, please see contact details at the Saint Thomas More Website. Registrations can only be accepted together with payment. A separate registration form is necessary for each participant, including children.
Cost:
Adults 25€
Youths aged 14 to 18: 10€
Children under 14: 5€
The payment covers the return trip by bus to Maastricht, lunch in Maastricht and the afternoon programme. If there is sufficient interest, there may be a guided tour in English, but this would involve an additional charge. Further information will be provided in due course.
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