Dear Pilgrims,
The Pilgrim Packs are now available. Please collect yours from your local church. You will find a letter detailing our travel arrangements.
We will be departing from INVERNESS BUS STATION at 5.45 am on Thu 16 Sep. Please be there at least twenty minutes before departure time.
The Pilgrim Letter in your pack gives details of our journey. When we arrive at the coach parking place on the M77 (which is closed to all other traffic) we have a comparatively short walk from our parking place to Bellahouston Park entrance. There will be assistance for any who are in difficulty.
Please IMMEDIATELY inform Lukasz at the St Mary’s Parish Office or our Pilgrim Leader, Ewen MacDonald, directly : (ejmac02@tiscali.co.uk ) if you are NOT TRAVELLING with the Group from Inverness by coach.
A Security Wristband needs to be allocated to each pilgrim. We also need to determine a Meeting Place (RV) for the independent travellers : where they meet up with the coach party.
This is important as everyone must be a member of a designated Pilgrim Group.
I have been asked to provide some Eucharistic ministers. If you are a Eucharistic Minister you may find that you have been volunteered for duties at Bellahouston.
I have designated Assistants to the Pilgrim Leader so that our large group of approximately 170 people may be safely and carefully guided and supported along the routes and into the park. Please excuse the arbitrary nature of this, but I have had little opportunity to do anything else.
Assistants to the Pilgrim Leader:
Sr
Brygida; Margaret Lamond; Marvia McCulloch; Urzula
Henderson ;
Anne Cooke ; Christine Cameron (St Joseph’s RC Primary School);
Helen MacGilp; Duncan MacPherson;
Derek Martin; Donald Shaw;
Edward Redmond; Alastair MacPherson
Please get in touch with Ewen MacDonald, our Pilgrim Leader, or the St Mary’s Parish Office, if you have any questions. We will try to post information sheets to Assistant Pilgrim Leaders... but do not worry. It will be OK on the day!
It should be a wonderful occasion: enter into the joy of it and rejoice in the Lord!
All good wishes,
Fr James Bell Tuesday 7 Sep 2010
