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A Pilgrimage of Faith, Art, and Culture
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Press Below to register to go on this trip
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Basic Information
Spiritual Director: Rev. Joy Thomas, MSFS
When: August 4-10, 2025
Cost: $1800 ($500 deposit at registration)
First payment $675 is due April 15.
The final payment is due June 23.
The cost Includes: Flights, 4 star hotels, breakfast and dinner, transportation, tour guide, entrance to sites, and tips for guide and driver.
By: Peregrinaciones EL Camino
For information and deposits contact:
Travel Agent - Mayela Chapman - 281-630-9460
[email protected]Claudia Sereno - 281-778-0400 Ext 109 [email protected]
Or Leticia Cordova - 281-240-6721 or 832-722-5716 [email protected]
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Day 1 - Monday, Aug. 4
Houston -Mexico City: Meet by our tour guide at the airport. Upon arriving we will visit the historic center of Mexico City. We will visit the National Cathedral and the National palace. Transfer to our hotel for dinner and overnight. Back to our Hotel
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Day 2 - Tue, Aug 5
Sanctuary of Guadalupe:
After breakfast departure to Cuautitlán to visit the place where San Juan Diego was born and live with his uncle Bernardino. The place is now a museum and a sanctuary. Here, we find the very first altar dedicated to our Lady of Guadalupe. After this short visit we will continue to the shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe. We will dedicate the rest of our day to the Blessed Mother with a procession and offering of roses. We will celebrate mass in front of the Tilma where the image of our beautiful Lady was miraculously printed. Guided visit of the rest of the sanctuary.
Free time for personal or group prayer and for lunch.
Back to the hotel for dinner and overnight.
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Day 3 - Wed, Aug 6
Teotihuacan-Puebla UNESCO
After breakfast and checking out of our hotel we will depart to Teotihuacán the most important religious centers of the ancient Aztec civilization. Also known as the city of Gods here you can admire the magnificent pyramids of the moon and the sun. The temple of the feather serpent Quetzalpapalotl and the avenue of the dead or “Calzada de los Muertos”. After lunch we will depart to the beautiful city of Puebla a world heritage site by UNESCO. On our ride to Puebla, we will climb to over 10,000 feet above sea level, and view two magnificent peaks one of which is an active volcano. The city of Puebla is also well known for its colonial architecture and culinary excellence. Here will visit the church of San Francisco where we can find the incorrupt body of Sebastia de Aparicio. Beato Sebastian de Aparicio was a Spanish colonist who after a lifetime as a rancher enter the Franciscan order. As a friar he spends 26 years as the bagger of the order. He had a reputation of holiness and was canonized by pope Pius VI in 1789. Dinner and overnight in Puebla.
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Day 4 - Thu, Aug 7
Puebla- Cholula:
After breakfast we will travel to city of Cholula also known as the Pyramid city and the city of churches. With 365 churches, one for every day of the year. Also has the largest pyramid in the world cituated in the Tolteca’s archeological site. On top of the hill (pyramid site) the franciscans built the convent of St. Gabriel (no longer there) where today we can visit the church of our lady of perpetual help “Señora de los Remedios”. Time for mass celebration and lunch. Back to Puebla to sightseeing the historic sites, and visit the Cathedral of the Immaculate conception, (colonial times) and the church of St. Dominic with its magnificent Chapel of our lady of the Rosary. The chapel of our Lady of the rosary is an example of Mexican Baroque architecture and was built in 1690.we will go back to Puebla to visit the magnificent Cathedral, and the church of Santo Domingo, where we can admire the chapel of the Rosary UNESCO’s heritage site. Dinner and overnight in Puebla.
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Day 5 - Fri, Aug 8
San Miguel del Milagro -Tlaxcala-Ocotlán-Mexico City:
After breakfast, we will travel to the city of Tlaxcala with a stop in San Miguel del Milagro, a place known for the apparition of the Archangel to Diego Lazaro in 1631 directing him to a grotto and miraculous water well. We will continue to the city of Tlaxcala with a special visit to the Cathedral of the Assumption. In the cathedral of the Assumption is where Mexicans venerate three of its first martyrs, Blessed Cristobal, Antonio, and Juan. All recently canonized by Pope Francis.
We will conclude our day with a visit to the beautiful sanctuary of Our Lady of Ocotlán. This is an Important Mary’s apparition site.
Dinner and overnight in Mexico City.
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Day 6 - Sat, Aug 9
Mexico City-San Jose del Altillo: Blessed Conchita’s House:
After breakfast we will visit the church of Saint Jose del Altillo to see the crypt where blessed Conchita Cabrera is buried. Then we will continue to visit the house and museum where our mistic Conchita Armida and her family lived. Wife and mother of nine children. After the death of her husband at 39 Conchita grow closer to Jesus and had a mystical marriage. Conchita was a mistic and visionary who in 1913 travel to Rome for an audience with Pope Pius X. She presented her writings and her desire to found the Apostolate of the Cruz and the congregation of the Sacred heart of Jesus. In December of 1999 Pope John Paul II declare her Venerable. After confirming her intercession in several a miracles Pope Francis formally beatify her in the Basilica of Guadalupe in June 2019. She is considered the patriot Saint of marriage and family life. In the afternoon we will stop at the Basilica to say farewell to our lady of Guadalupe. Back to our hotel for dinner and overnight.
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Day 7, Sun, Aug 10
Back home:
After breakfast we will be transfer to the airport for our flight back to Houston.
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