Welcome to the second year of our Lourdes Newsletter and to the 38th anniversary of our Association’s Pilgrimage to Lourdes!
We are excited to share some exciting details about our upcoming 2026 Pilgrimage to Lourdes:
- Dates: April 28 – May 5
- Airline: Norse Airlines via JFK
- Rates (same as 2025):
- $3,900 per Knight, Dame and Volunteer
- $1,500 for Auxiliary
- Hotels: Hôtel Méditerranée and Hôtel Alba
- Special Guest: His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan will be with us
A Pilgrimage to Lourdes with the Order of Malta is truly transformative—an experience that touches your heart and deepens your faith in ways that are difficult to describe. It offers all of us a unique opportunity to live our charism of serving the sick and the poor and giving witness to our faith as individuals, as an Association and as a worldwide Order. Let us set aside our daily responsibilities for one week and place the needs of our malades and caregivers before our own, remembering the call to be forgetful of thyself.
Please keep an eye out for the registration and malade sponsorship forms in your email shortly after Investiture weekend. And if you see us at the Investiture, please feel free to talk to us about Lourdes, ask any questions you might have, etc. If you prefer to correspond via email, shoot us a note or a question at lourdespilgrimagecopresidents@gmail.com.
Come, stay awhile in Lourdes, and join us as we recall the words of the Angel Gabriel to our Blessed Mother: “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee!”
With Love,
John “Mitch” Mitchell, KM, and Stacey Reisman, DM, Pilgrimage Co-Presidents
