Across the fields and throughout the centuries they keep coming.

Father Anthony Mary with some of the pilgrim priests
before they leave

Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.

Pilgrim priests

 and 

throngs of pilgrims.

Pilgrims of all ages

and especially

the young here kneeling.

Mass and Holy Communion

before they leave.

Pilgrims kneeling

before setting off.

The Standard of the Cross 

and Our Lady 

leading the thousands ever onwards.

Yes, we know these as they set out.

Procession to Mass in the fields.

A long procession.

Franciscans of the Immaculate beside our Brothers.

Tom Esteban, Br. Seelos, Br Clemens...

Holy Mass.

and Communion

O Esca Viatorum ~ O Food of men wayfaring...

Through the fields

they pilgrimage onwards

an image of the Church pressing on through the ages

these fields saw pilgrims last century

and two hundred years ago pilgrims passed here...

...five hundred years ago it was the same Church, doing the same thing...

doing what their ancestors in the faith did 100 years before them

in 1400 A.D.... and 1300 A.D.

  ... in 1200 AD it was the same story of pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres;

the days of prayer and 75 miles on foot as penance for sins;

prayer and penance in action, 

a proclamation of the Kingship of Christ.

The Cathedral is packed with pilgrims.

Many are still quite young.

See how the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres is overflowing with them...

...and after this our exile

show uto us the blessed fruit of Thy Womb,

O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

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