INDIVIDUAL TICKETS: $750.00*
Come and experience an amazing 4-day pilgrimage, led by Fr. Leo Patalinghug, of historical Catholic sites around Baltimore, MD, and Washington, D.C., and share meals at the Grace & Grub Food Truck and Gastro Social restaurant.
Ticket Includes:
Presentations by Fr. Leo
Transportation to the various historical sites
Lunch Meals
Dinner Meals
Daily Mass
*Ticket Does Not Include:
Airfare, Lodging**, Tax, Tips, Gratuities or Alcohol
**Lodging: a block of rooms with a group discount will be reserved at the Hilton Garden Inn, Baltimore, MD
Itinerary:
(Subject to Change)
We have created a unique experience that will highlight the spirituality of the early church of the United States, much of which began in the city of Baltimore. We will also explore Washington D.C. and some of the unique flavors of the city and state while dining at Fr. Leo’s Gastro Social restaurant venue.
Pilgrims are invited to make their own travel plans and to book their own hotel rooms. A block of hotel rooms will be reserved at the Hilton Garden Inn located in Baltimore's Harbor East area. This location is only a short walk to the Gastro Social, which will be our meeting point each day.
Wednesday, November 4th
We ask that all guests arrive on Wednesday, June 10th, at 5:30pm at the Gastro Social, located at 806 Stiles Street, Baltimore, MD 21202. There you will be treated to a delicious 4-course meal, which will ecen include a cooking demonstration and talk by Fr. Leo Patalinghug.
Dinner includes (2) complimentary alcoholic drinks with your meal.
Thursday, November 5th
We will visit the beautiful area of Emmitsburg, MD (home of the USA's 2nd Seminary). We will also visit the National Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes; see the place where Elizabeth Ann Seton taught her first students and pray before the grotto that contains a rock from the original Grotto of Lourdes. We will have time to walk the grounfs of the grotto that has the Mysteries of the Rosary, the Stations of the Cross and a landmark 20-foot gold statue of the Blessed Mother. We will also visit the National Shrine and Basilica of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American born Saint, whose spirituality inspired the Catholic Education in our Nation. Lunch will be at a cozy country inn. We will then have a chance to walk about the city of Frederick, once a country town but is now a bedroom community for people commuting to DC and Baltimore for work. We will have a chance to walk about the city, visit one of the largest churches in the Archdiocese of Baltimore for Evening Prayer and then have dinner at a charming French Bistro. We will return to Baltimore in the early evening, giving you a chance to explore some of the local Baltimore Nightlife of Harbor East or to stroll along Baltimore’s Famous Inner Harbor or the Federal Inn Neighborhood.
(Breakfast is available at the hotel, lunch and dinner includes (2) complimentary glasses of wine or beer).
Friday, November 6th
Today we will meet at a local spot for breakfast pastries and bread before heading off to view some of the most prominent churches in Baltimore City. We will go to The National Shrine and the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the first Basilica in the United States. We will see where the artifacts of St. John Paul and Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta who visited this beautiful Basilica. We will visit the crypt and the newly created lower church while seeing the unique architectural design of the dome, which was constructed by Latrobe who created a similar some of the Capital. From there we will walk to two other churches, St. John Neumann. We will also visit the national shrine of Saint Jude, the Patron Saint of Hopeless Cases. For lunch, we will visit a classic Baltimore market, now a shell of what it used to be. However, it boasts in having one of the best tasting crabcakes in the city. We will also have a chance to have a Grace and grub Food Truck experience. We continue our spiritual tour by visiting the first seminary in the United States, Saint Mary’s seminary of Rowland Park. We will have a chance to visit and pray at cathedral of Mary our Queen. This will give us a full day of travel, but still enough time to do some local visits around the inner harbor, and even rest before we have a closing mass at Saint Leo’s church in Little Italy. We will then conclude with a closing dinner banquet, a true feast with new friends and our family of faith.
Saturday, November 7th
Finally, we will travel to Washington, D.C., to visit the holy sites in our nation's capital before ending our pilgrimage with a closing dinner at the Gastro Social.
Sunday, November 8th
Departure for home or stay longer and enjoy Baltimore City.
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Price includes all of the meals, transportation while in Baltimore, and 2 glasses of wine or beer for our sit down meals. Mass and rosary, as well as other devotions, and spiritual reflections by Fr. Leo will be offered throughout the trip.
The cost of the trip does not include your travel to and from Baltimore, the hotel accommodations, any personal purchases, or gratuities.
Space is limited to (30) people only. A deposit of $250 per person is required to hold your space.
