The managing director of Misszió Tours Kft., which organized the trip, said: on the pilgrimage train are the auxiliary bishop of Váci Lajos Varga and four other priests, as well as about 300 students from the Carpathian basin and the wider world representing the secondary school organizations of the Rákóczi Association, as well as several young people who are being educated at the Szent Ágota Child Protection Service. will travel.
László Budai said that after a solemn blessing, the pilgrims leave Keleti railway station after five o'clock in the morning via Szolnok, Püspökladány, Nagyvárad, Kolozsvár, Marosvásárhely, Déda, Maroshévíz, Gyergyószentmiklós, Marosfő, Csíkszentdomokos and Csíkmadaras to Csíkszereda.
The pilgrim train is not only a vehicle, but also a community scene, a moving church, he added.
He highlighted:
there are "quiet booths" on the train, where you can have a spiritual conversation and confession, in addition, a radio station with its own studio serves the passengers with joint programs and singing. A dining car and a mobile buffet also contribute to the comfort of the pilgrims.
The managing director of Misszió Tours indicated that, in addition to the Pilgrim Train of the Blessed Virgin Mary, another train with a shorter program will be launched this year to the farewell in Csíksomlyó.
The Mission pilgrim train departing from Budapest on Friday runs under the spiritual guidance of Csaba Böjte, and among the hundreds of participants, 110 Transcarpathian pilgrims will be present on the road, he said.
Auxiliary Bishop Lajos Varga of Vác, the spiritual leader of the pilgrimage train, blesses the Pilgrimage Train of Our Lady leaving for the Pentecost farewell in Csiksomlyo at Keleti Railway Station. Next to Miklós Soltész, State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office for Church and Ethnic Relations (j2), Attila Fülöp, State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior responsible for care policy (j4).
About seven hundred people travel on the pilgrim train, the train arrives at Csíkszereda late in the evening, passing through Szolnok, Püspökladány, Nagyvárad, Kolozsvár, Marosvásárhely, Déda, Maroshévíz, Gyergyószentmiklós, Marosfő, Csíkszentdomokos and Csíkmadaras. MTI/Márton Mónus
This year, Mission Tours will also start pilgrimages to the St. Paul's Shrine in Czestochowa, Poland, to Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and to Fatima in Portugal, László Budai announced.
Source: vasarnap.hu
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