Also Included:

Air Fare from New York/Newark round trip

   including taxes/gas surcharge*

Accommodations are central locations

     with families of visionaries
Private transfers to/from airport
Full breakfast and dinner daily
Local guide throughout your stay
Daily Mass and spiritual devotions
Visit to Fr. Jozo

Important historical sights,

    events in Medjugorje, all meetings

Blue Cross

Cenacolo

Apparition Hill -Podbrdo

Mt. Krizevac - Cross Mountain

Devotional talks

In Rome:

                          Private transfers to/from airport to hotel

                               Papal Audience (if Pope is not traveling)

                          Guided Sights per itinerary

                          4* Hotel

                          Breakfast daily

                          All entrance fees
                               Personalized documentation
                               Passport Wallet, ID Badge
                               Luggage tags
                               Flight Bag   

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Highlights Summary

Day 1 - Depart USA for Rome. 
 
Day 2 Holy Rome In the Footsteps of  Sts. Peter & Paul                             We arrive in Rome today beginning our visit with Mass at the Tomb of St. Paul*(accompanied by Fr. Pat Hensy, Fr. Allan Weinert, Fr. Don Zimmerman ).

Day 3  Holy Rome   St. Peters’s Basilica  Papal Audience
This description is certainly not enough to express the emotions you feel as you descend from the  upper church of St. Peter's - as if  we are traveling back in time - to the sacred gravesite of St. Peter. Leaving for the
the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps, the Piazza Venezia and the amazing Pantheon, visiting the Gianicolo, the Piazza Navona, Bernini's Four Rivers Fountain and Castle Sant'Angelo.

Day 4 Roman Relics of Faith  Catacombs  Appian Way  Colosseum  Santa Maria Maggiore  San Giovanni  Scala Santa  
Leaving by motorcoach this morning via Piazza Venezia's impressive monument dedicated to King Victor Emanuel II, we continue by foot to the famous Piazza del Campidiglio designed by Michelangelo and begin our walk thru the Roman Forum to enter the Colosseum. Our coach will then continue by the Circus Maximus and the Pyramid of Caius Cestius before arriving at the tomb of St Paul Outside the Walls*

Our afternoon visit includes the Esquiline Hill, to see the treasures of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, driving by coach to stop at the Holy Staircase, the Lateran Palace and enter the Basilica of San Giovanni - the cathedral of Rome to revere the relics of our faith. Driving along the Ancient Appian Way, where we pass  the Chapel of "Domine Quo Vadis" before arriving at the Catacombs, the ancient underground cemeteries and first hiding places for the Christians. (A visit will be made to either the Catacombs of S. Callisto, Santa Domitilla or San Sebastiano depending upon seasonal conditions.) Returning  to our hotel we end with a spectacular view of the Baths of Emperor Caracalla.


Day 5 Mystical Assisi
Early morning drive through vineyards and rolling hills to a place where your worries give way to inspiration  -  Assisi. You ascend to the mystical city of St. Francis and  St. Clare  encircled by ramparts, hardly changed since the Middle Ages.  In the great San Francesco Basilica we descend into his crypt to kneel before his tomb in prayer.   We visit the sites where Francis and his wandering band of  “God’s troubadours' reinvigorated God’s kingdom on earth.    After venerating the incorrupt body of St. Clare at Santa Chiara, you continue on to the Duomo,  San Rufino, Santa Maria degli Angeli, the Porziuncola - the roseto into which St. Francis threw himself to overcome  temptation, the cave in which he lived and the cross where he received his stigmata.  The reminders of Francis and Clare in all of these places, make much more real and concrete: the mystery of holiness and the mystery of Christ himself. The enchanting winding streets of this little town easily carry us back to the time of Francis. As we walk along on our guided visit we come to understand, the more that Francis embraced the grace of Christ,  the more that Christ shone through him until he bore the marks of Christ in his own body.
 
Day 6 Rome to Medjugorje
Farewell Mass at St. Peter's Basilica with free time before departing for the airport and your flight to Medjugorje.

Day 7 Medjugorje   View map of Medjugorje
There is still time. The Blessed Mother still appears every day to three of the remaining six visionaries. We do everything to help you make a fruitful pilgrimage leaving all the details to us. Our arrangements give you the flexibility & freedom to join or not join in pre-arranged meetings. Since 1984 when we led the first group from the USA to Medjugorje, we have always accompanied our pilgrims (see accompanying list) setting the standard which others have copied. Our photos from the early days reflect we have been Devoted....Since The  Beginning.
After our arrival in Croatia, stops at outdoor grottos in thanksgiving for our safe journey depend on before arriving in Medjugorje at 12 noon.  Since we stay with the visionary's relatives and in the visionary's homes - we are welcomed into their home where they prepare your meals - it feels as if you are at home. It's still the  custom to have grandparents and parents' children with their children in the same house living together. We are close by, only a leisurely 3 minute walk, about 60 feet from St. James Church.  We will meet the local villagers and hear them tell of personally seeing a light travel from the hill of apparition across the fields and stop on the church where the visionaries were praying.
            It seems what Vicka had said in 1991 when she visited the USA    and spoke to our group would even apply today:  "It's so evident that those people (pilgrims) are protected by Our Lady. This is so obvious. They don't have to be afraid of coming to (Medugorje). "

Day 8 - Medjugorje - A window to heaven
Our guide coordinates meeting the visionaries at their home, conferences, prayer meetings and all devotional events during your stay with detailed itinerary of each days schedules. In 1981 when Fr. Jozo was imprisoned, Fr. Tomislav Pervan became the next pastor of St. James. Since 1984, we have been under the supervision of the Franciscans in Medjugorje. He advised us to have our pilgrims taken care of in Medjugorje not only by a guide approved by the church but by one who lives there as well. 

Jill Jensen, who was with us on one of our pilgrimage departures to Medjugorje had all that life could offer; she was a bright and attractive young lady who thought that drugs could never happen to her. Then one day in high school she tried marijuana. Soon she was trapped. Once she was hooked, she began to lie, steal, and even ruin the lives of others to satisfy her relentless appetite for drugs. Eventually, she was hooked on cocaine. The drug was so overpowering that she would often hallucinate and literally rip at her hair and her skin. She received a miracle; SHE WAS HEALED - FROM DRUGS - but more importantly, she had a personal conversion. Jill Jensen's testimony is a dramatic example of how God can take an impossible situation and change it for the better. Today, she is helping other addicts to find hope - conversion - and a way out of their addiction.  We even have a photograph taken of her "the day before and the day after" her healing.  Be assured the same gift can be yours if you trust and make the journey.                  

Day 9 - A Place Called Peace - Apparition Hill
We follow the path to start the climb up Apparition Hill where they first saw the Blessed Mother. Many times Ivan, Vicka and Marija would often gather with their prayer groups to pray before the Blessed Mother appeared to them. Vicka told us the Blessed Mother had shown her Paradise, Purgatory and Hell and asked her to pray for the souls in Purgatory. On another occasion when Lois and our pilgrims stayed at Jacov's home he told us of the time he and others were praying for Fr. Jozo when Fr. Jozo had appeared to him even though he was still imprisoned.

The village and Fr. Jozo
Hear and experience the presence of Fr. Jozo at his prayer and healing service (as long as he is available. i.e. not traveling.) in his parish at Sirojki Briej.  His meditations and service still find us in church at the Hour of Mercy - 3:00 p.m. - the moment of Jesus' death on the cross. At this hour, Our Lord revealed to Bl. Faustina, you can obtain everything for yourself and for others for the asking and to: ...immerse yourself in prayer where you happen to be, if only for a very brief instant.  There is time to visit the nearby cave of the martyrs'.  Returning to the village in time for the Apparition.

Day 10 - Return home or   

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11 Days        

Rome - 5 days                            Medjugorje 6 days

Day 1- 9 Refer to itinerary above.

Day 10 Medjugorje - A time of great grace                                                 At the Blue Cross or on the pathway through the fields where the visionaries first ran to hide from the secret police, walking this holy ground frees you and heals you. What graces you will receive.  Why would you deny yourself?

Historical Catholic Croatia - Dubrovnik
Optional guided visit begins as we drive along the Adriatic Coastline this morning for Dubrovnik. Surrounded by crystal clear waters, it's a fairy tale city come to life with ramparts and a wooden draw-bridge with no vehicles allowed within its walls. Visit Dubrovnik's Mala Strana, the Renaissance fortress Monastery of the Holy Savior and the churches of St. Roc and St. Ignatius and incorrupt body of Saint Sylvan. This evening we return in time for dinner and Mass.

Day 11 - Return home.                                                                                We leave after an early breakfast for our return flight home.

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