BY Ian Dunn | May 13 | 
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Welcome to the inaugural Lourdes Day in the capital
Archbishop Leo Cushley has extended an open invitation to St Andrews and Edinburgh Archdiocese’s inaugural Lourdes Day on the afternoon of Sunday May 29.
“It’s the month of May, Our Lady’s month,” Archbishop Cushley (above) said. “So we’ve decided to have a little Lourdes pilgrimage of our own in the archdiocese. We’ll be honouring Our Lady of Lourdes, having a procession and blessing the sick, and all are welcome.”
The event will begin at 3pm with a Marian procession through the streets of Edinburgh, starting at the Archbishop’s home, 42 Greenhill Gardens, and making its way to the nearby St Margaret’s Chapel, Gillis Centre, 100 Strathearn Road. That is about a third of a mile. Solemn Benediction and the blessing of the sick will then follow. The day will then conclude with a celebratory reception.
The event is organised by the Archdiocese’s Lourdes Pilgrimage Group, the Edinburgh Hospitalité.
Chris Thomas, one of the day’s organisers and vice president of the Hospitalité, said they wanted to bring a bit of Lourdes to Edinburgh.
“As pilgrims to Lourdes we’re charged with keeping the spirit of pilgrimage alive in our home diocese,” Mr Thomas said. “We’ve done various events to that end in the past but we wanted to branch out and arrange something open to all, and express our devotion to Our Lady.”
— For more information go to www.edinburgh-lourdes.com
Pic: Paul McSherry
—This story ran in full in the May 13 edition print of the SCO, available in parishes.
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