Catholic Tours Broaden The Spiritual Horizon

By Author: Gordan Zovko
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A catholic tour deepens your faith and helps you explore the history and culture of far-away lands. You can visit so many beloved holy shrines and catholic sites with historical significance.

Imagine the delight of soaking in the spiritual ambience of the grand Upper Basilica built in 1876, at the site of the holiest of shrines in Lourdes, where Bernadette Soubirous witnessed a holy Marian apparition! You can experience this and more on a catholic tour. When you embark on a catholic tour be ready to receive spiritual enlightenment and forge strong relationships with others.

Catholic tours are customised to take you on a spiritual journey to revered Catholic shrines in Europe and elsewhere. No matter how busy our lives get, the truly devout always keep searching for divine presence and intervention. A catholic tour is an act of devotion to God. Divinity in its course is experienced through myriad cultures, places, situations and conversations that you come across.

Every faithful undertaking a religious journey has a different need. Prior to your bookings a good tour director determines an itinerary that will ...
... better meet your spiritual need. For example a Christian tour will be most apt with stoppages in Rome, revered as the land associated with early Christian history. A catholic tour will be tailored to provide exposure to early Christian doctrine. On this kind of tour you will get to participate in Mass at various medieval churches and visit the catacombs of martyrs and saints.

You may choose to visit the Marian Shrines in Lourdes, Medjugorje and Fatima or the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem or the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem. You can touch and feel the ancient stones in centuries-old cathedrals and monasteries. You can visit the Vatican and see the simply awesome St Peter's Basilica and Sistine Chapel.

You can attend the daily mass in Medjugorje with Our Lady Queen of Peace. You can shop, sightsee and dine in a fine restaurant on our Catholic tour! There is so much to see and experience! Whatever your heart’s desire, on a catholic tour you can be with like-minded people. You can easily become a part of an affordable group tour to Europe. You can comfortably relax in the knowledge that your travellers are like-minded and your itinerary is prepared by travel professionals.

Think hard about what you want to achieve from your Catholic tour. This will help you plan the places you can visit by prioritising. Are you seeking a pilgrimage or a spiritual tour? Pilgrimages mean spiritual intercessions, penance and gratitude, while a spiritual tour includes sight-seeing of historical sites related to Catholic faith. On a pilgrimage, you will not want to leave out Fatima, Lourdes and Medjugorie. And on a touring list France, Italy, Britain and Ireland must figure.

Even local parishes and dioceses organise these tours with the details taken care of by a good travel agency. Some catholic tours function as fund-raisers for local parishes. These catholic tours are well-organized with a customised itinerary and in keeping with your budget. Catholic tours are a way for Christians and people of other faiths to experience divine blessing. On a catholic tour you can be assured of discovering a side to yourself that you never knew existed, a side you will come to love.

The author of this article is associated with Blue Heart Travel LLC which is renowned for its wonderful and well-organised catholic tours including the Lourdes pilgrimage and holy land catholic pilgrimage. The writer is a devout Christian who believes that a pilgrimage helps people to shed prejudices and enrich themselves with new ideas. After each of his many tours the author felt invigorated, filled with spiritual zest for life and found his soul cleansed from doubt.