Bishop Bergie Pilgrimage to Rome 2025
Thursday October 16, 2025 Back to Around the Diocese
Enter through the Holy Doors with Most Reverend Gerard Bergie
October 16 - 24, 2025
His Excellency Bishop Gerard Bergie extends an invitation to join him on pilgrimage to Rome and to enter through the Holy Doors of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran and the Basilica of St. Mary Major during the 2025 Jubilee Year.
This Spiritual Journey starts on October 16th with a Toronto flight to Rome and coach to Assisi where we honour and pray at the tombstone of Blessed Carlo Acutis. The tour continues with a full day tour in Assisi. On the way to San Giovanni Rotondo (the stigmata of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina) we stop in Lanciano (Eucharistic Miracle of Jesus.) Via the Montecassino monastery, we reach Rome, enter through the Holy Doors and receive a Papal Blessing. The return flight is scheduled for October 24.
For more information on the 9-day program and registration, contact Ineke Brinkman, Travel Advisor for Direct Travel and Organizer of Pilgrimage Tours since 1993 at ibrinkman@dt.com or call Ineke at 905.988.1313.
Click here to view a detailed itinerary, including a booking form (full payment due by August 2, 2025).