Walking with the Saints.
Student Pilgrimage to Rome: 22 April to 2 May 2025
High school students attending the Gilbertine Academy for the 2024/25 school year will have the opportunity to take part in an Easter pilgrimage with high school students from our sister schools Villa Spiritus and Holy House of Our Lady and St. Benedict. The trip will include daily Mass, visiting various churches, shrines and ancient year historic sites to match our curriculum. With a choir director from each campus, students will lead choral services in some of the most beautiful and ancient settings on Earth. The trip includes an audience with the Pope. We intend to repeat such a trip every three or four years in order that all of our high school students have the chance to go to either Rome or England on pilgrimage before they graduate grade twelve.
““Pilgrimage makes us think of life as walking, as a path. If a person does not walk, but instead stays still, this is not useful; it accomplishes nothing. Think of water: when water is not in the river, it does not course, but instead it remains still and stagnates. A soul that does not walk in life doing good, doing many things that one must do for society, to assist others, or who does not walk through life seeking God and inspiration from the Holy Spirit, is a soul that finishes in mediocrity and in spiritual poverty. Please: do not stand still in life!””