This year's Roma pilgrimage is connected to the year of prayer. Everyone needs an inner life and to retreat to a space and time dedicated to a relationship with God, but this is not an escape from reality.
Almost 800 pilgrims from around 30 settlements will come to Mátraverebély-Szentkút on Saturday, the national Roma pilgrimage, which is led by Bishop János Székely, the president of the Roma Pastoral Committee, the main celebrant of the mass will be Archbishop Csaba Ternyák of Eger, the press chief of the shrine in Nógrád County informed MTI.
More than eight hundred Roma come to pray at Szentkút
Source: Mátraverebély-Szentkút
Regina Kerekes-Dancsok said that this year's Roma pilgrimage is connected to the year of prayer. Quoting Pope Francis, he added:
everyone needs an inner life and to retreat to a space and time devoted to a relationship with God, but this is not an escape from reality.
The press chief said that the joy of meeting and praying together can also be experienced in the large family of the church.
On Saturday morning in Mátraverebély-Szentkút, the pilgrims will be glorified, witness and confess, and then the pilgrims can listen to the teachings of Bishop János Székely. Archbishop Csaba Ternyák of Eger will be the main celebrant of the holy mass, which starts at 11 a.m.
In the morning, the children can take part in a craft activity, and after lunch the pilgrim groups perform a short, 5-8 minute program.
Pilgrimage is a traditional manifestation of Gypsy religiosity, which is not only part of Roma culture, but also a means of personal faith and community renewal.
Regina Kerekes-Dancsok added.
The Szendrőlád Roma Church Choir on the national Roma pilgrimage at the Mátraverébély-Szentkút national shrine on July 3, 2021. MTI/Péter Komka
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Front page image: Participants in the mass held during the national Roma pilgrimage at the national shrine in Mátraverebély-Szentkút on July 3, 2021. MTI/Péter Komka
