Next Pilgrimage

Sept. 15-25, 2014

 Price: $3,370

   (subject to change)

Early Booking Discount: $50 reduction of the pilgrimage price if application and deposit received by Feb.1
Discount will be off final payment.

Pilgrimage price includes air (from Portland, OR ), airport taxes, land transportation, English speaking guide, 9 nights accommodations in shared room with private bath, 2 meals a day while in Medjugorje, and tips to house and guide.

Here is a link to a typical itinerary.

Here is a link to our Top Notch guides. 

$500 deposit with application due by
June 2, 2014

Final Payment due by
July 19, 2014
Limited number of single rooms available
for an additional $250.

For more information or application call/write:
Center for Peace-West
PO Box 91191
Portland, OR 97291-0191
(503) 646-4435 (message phone)
Email: info@CenterForPeaceWest.com

Or contact us Here

Two meetings will be scheduled prior to departure to discuss valuable information

On June 24, 1981, in the small parish town known as Medjugorje, in Bosnia – Herzegovina, The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to six young children. Since then, Our Lady has been appearing daily with an urgent message for the world,

“I have come to tell the world that God exists. He is the fullness of life, and to enjoy this fullness and peace, you must return to God”

Six young people from Medjugorje, a small village which lies between two mountains, see the Blessed Mother and talk to her daily. God has sent her to speak to the world messages of peace through prayer, reconciliation, fasting, reading God’s word daily, and conversion. She asks us to pray deeply from the heart.

The whole village of Medjugorje is in Mary’s school, a school of love. She continually thanks the village and us for responding to her call.

Our website and our Centers for Peace are a response to her call to spread her messages of Peace to the world. We are dedicated to Mary, the Blessed Mother, who introduced herself in Medjugorje as the Queen of Peace.

On the 25th of each month, the Blessed Mother gives one of the six young people, Marija Pavlovic Lunetti, a message for the world.

Mary, Mother of God my mother, Queen of Peace, ask Your Son Jesus to give me the gift of peace. Pray for me for peace; peace in my heart, peace of mind and of soul, peace in my family, peace with all whom I meet, the peace of Jesus.

Jesus, my Lord and Savior, my Brother, King of Peace, I come to You with Mary, Queen of Peace, to ask You humbly for a new outpouring of the gift of peace. Pour out on me Your Holy Spirit of Peace.

Give me peace, Jesus, peace within myself, peace in my family, peace in my everyday life. Give peace to my nation, and to all nations, peace among all peoples, peace in the world.

Jesus, my mediator with the Father, take me to the Father to pray for peace.

Father, Father of Jesus, our Father, my Father, I come to You with Your Son Jesus. In Him and with Him and through Him I pray for peace.

–Fr. Robert Faricy, S.J.

Day 1 U.S. to Europe

• U.S. to Europe…depart the US for our overnight flight to Europe. Dinner and breakfast are served on board.

Day 2 Croatian Airlines and Bus to Medjugorje

• Connect with our Croatian flights. We will be met in Split or Dubrovnik by our special local guide, Ivanka Petrovic or representative. Our driver will take us via bus to Medjugorje.

Day 3-9 Medjugorje

• Orientation tour of parish Croatian history by Ivanka. She will be with us daily during the pilgrimage and plan our daily activities. She will come to our home at dinner and discuss and post the schedule for the following day.
• Daily English Mass at St. James Church except noon on Sundays/holidays
• Daily early evening International Program…Rosary, Confession, Mass
• Veneration of the Cross and Adoration or healing prayers depending on the day of the week after international Masses
• We will climb Mt. Podbrdo (Apparition Hill) praying the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary and recite the Stations of the Cross as we proceed up Mt. Krizavac (Cross Mountain). We will pray the Stations of the Cross and the Luminous Mysteries behind the church at the Risen Christ area, for those unable to climb the hills.
• Other points of grace that we will visit are the Adoration Chapel, Blue Cross, cemetery to visit Father Slavko’s grave,
• A very moving visit to the Cenacolo Community—a drug/addiction recovery facility where addicts are rehabilitated through prayer, hard work and learning to trust others,
• A visit to Mother’s Village, an orphanage, established in 1993. It also includes a kindergarten, art studio/gallery and St. Francis Garden, a place of rest, prayer , a zoo and hippo therapy. Medjugorje Mir, an organization that handles humanitarian aid to the poor and needy in the area, is also based here and we encourage our pilgrims to bring donations.
• Ivanka will arrange meetings/talks with local priests and visionaries.

Day 10… Depart Medjugorje and Flight Home

•  A very early breakfast as we say our good-bye’s and thank you’s to our family and board our bus to the airport.