Why Pilgrimage
Our Loving Mother’s Children (OLMC) and its volunteers are the heirs of a long tradition
of people who believe that, from time to time, God acts in unique and miraculous
ways. The specific locations where God acts in these exceptional ways are thereafter
seen as holy ground.
Throughout the ages, the believer, the seeker and the curious have made pilgrimages
to such sites. This is particularly true in the Catholic Church where for centuries
Catholic pilgrims have traveled to the original places where Jesus worked, died
and was resurrected and even the site of the apparition of the Ascension of Jesus
where He gave the Great Commission to the Apostles to evangelize. At all these sites,
the Church has built shrines to commemorate the acts of God.
In some cases these specific aspects of the experience go back far beyond the coming
of the Messiah and are evident in the books of the Old Testament. Such is the case
with pilgrimages, sanctuaries, icons and apparitions.