That was too late. It takes almost a year to plan and arrange a successful pilgrimage. Participants should be decided at least 6 months in advance to prepare themseIves intellectually and spiritually. These are the ones who truly get into the spirit of what authauthentic pilgrimages are meant to be. The others are on vacations and my time as a priest is too valuable to conduct vacation tours.
Sacrifices make up authentic pilgrimages.
If at least some of your family is genuinely interested in such a pilgrimage that would be conducted at cost you must write us no later than December 1st. Give the number of your family interested. Remember, the airline fare is almost all of the cost. If there is enough interest, we will announce a pilgrimage for 1997 in our January issue.