Pilgrimage of Hope - India
In January 2010 we embark on the sixth Pilgrimage of Hope to India. The focus is service to others and the expectation is that the Pilgrims will gain m
uch from reflecting upon this “experience of a lifetime”.
For Perth based people, we will be conducting an Information night for this Pilgrimage on the 7th May 2009 at 7pm at the Christ Church Grammar School Senior Staff common room. If you would like to attend the information night, click here to email Brother James and he will include you on an email reminder closer to the event.
Building on the success of five previous Pilgrimages of Hope to India, Pilgrims will work for three weeks alongside Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity Sisters helping them to serve the “poorest of the poor”. This will take the Pilgrims to Kalighat, a Home for the “Destitute and Dying”, to Prem Dan, a Home for the sick and mentally ill, to Dayadan, a Home for abandoned and mentally ill children, Shishu Bhavan, an Orphanage for infants and involvement with Calcutta Stations Mission.
Pilgrims will also work at Nabo Jibon, a Home run by the Missionaries of Charity Brothers for orphans and abandoned children and the Loreto School, Sealdah (The Rainbow School), founded by Sister Cyril Mooney, which is a rooftop school for street children. Many of the children at the Rainbow School come from the slums of Kolkata.The Pilgrims will have the privilege of joining with Mother Teresa’s modern day disciples in Orphanages, Schools and Homes for the dying. They will also work with Loreto nuns and Salesian Brothers in schools and in places of special care.
The Pilgrimage plans to depart Australia for India on 5 January 20010, returning on 26 January 2010. Dates may change slightly once flight arrangements are confirmed. A detailed itinerary will be issued to all participants prior to departure.
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