Inaugural Holy Family Pilgrimage to Canada

The Holy Family Pilgrimage Experience offers a six-day behind-the-scenes look at Canada’s rich Catholic legacy. Included are pilgrimages to basilicas devoted to the Blessed Mother in Ottawa and Quebec City, and the internationally renowned shrines of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré near Quebec City, Our Lady of the Cape in Trois-Rivières, and St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal. All of these historic churches are strewn along the famous St. Lawrence River and Rideau Canal waterways. Participants can register interest for the pilgrimage experience now. Tickets are available in September for the PAC27 forum in Ottawa, the official kick off to the Road to Jubilee33.

The Road to Jubilee33 takes place in honour of the 2033 extraordinary jubilee: the 2000th anniversary of Jesus Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection. It aims to bring the world to Jesus through Mary by showing the unity of the Catholic family under Mary’s maternal care and guided by the Holy Family towards Jesus Christ. It kicks off at PAC27, September 2 to 5, 2027, at TD Place Stadium on the banks of the Rideau Canal in Ottawa. PAC27 is expected to attract tens of thousands of participants. TD Place will be transformed into a sacred space mirroring the historic 1947 Marian Congress held on the same site – the crowning act of which, according to the Venerable Pope Pius XII, was the consecration of Canada to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It is a first of three such events, with similar ones planned for Labor Day weekend 2030 in the United States, and the final Jubilee event in Rome in 2033.

Press Release: New Holy Family Pilgrimage Experience unveils Catholic history along the St. Lawrence Seaway, launches at once-in-a-millennium PAC27 intercontinental forum