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31/08/2024

The Tangney Tours team and friends pose for a photograph, having just finishing the CA/Raphael check-in for the Birmingham flight. Both of yesterday’s flights landed ahead of schedule at their destinations, making for happy clients, and a very happy TT team! 🎉😁

To travel with us in the coming weeks, or in 2025, click on the link below:

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29/08/2024

ABBA (RevisiTTed) on their way to the CA/Glanfield Mass in Lourdes!

17/08/2024

LOURDES CALLING!

Join us in December to celebrate THE FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION in Lourdes, where Our Lady used this very title to identify Herself to little Bernadette.

This feast honours the belief that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was conceived without original sin. Pilgrims from around the world gather in Lourdes for special masses, processions, and prayers.

This tour includes:
* 2 nights in Lourdes staying in the 4* Hotel Eliseo on a full board basis, breakfast, lunch and dinner included. This hotel is within easy walking distance of the Domain.
*Whilst in Lourdes you will be able to participate in our full pilgrimage programme including Mass celebrations, an orientation tour of the Grotto area, as well as a walking tour of Lourdes visiting places associated with St. Bernadette’s childhood, the Water Gesture and the Candlelight Procession.
*Cost of full board accommodation is £250 per person sharing. Single supplement £70
* Departing 7th December. Please note this price does not include flights. We will be able to offer flights from London Stansted - Flight details on application

For further information and to book your place to celebrate this special feast in Lourdes, please click on the link below:

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Or contact our office on 0044 1732 886666

15/08/2024

Happy Feast of the Assumption from everyone at

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14/08/2024

Great news for the very near future!

The baths at the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France have fully reopened for the first time in four years for France’s national pilgrimage for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary this week. https://bit.ly/46NVRXa

26/07/2024

We have some spare seats on our flight to Stansted from Lourdes this evening. A number of people have been affected by the train problems across France, if you are one of them, call our office on 01732886666 to book!

24/07/2024

In Lourdes this evening, Bishop Alan, Fr. Dominic and Fr. Bob’s wonderful group of very special people from Brentwood helped Fr. Bob Hamill to celebrate his Golden Jubilee to the priesthood. Everyone in Tangney Tours sends their heartfelt congratulations to Fr. Bob. You’re one in a million! 🥂⭐️🥳🎉😊
A big thanks to Ed and all from for their help this evening. 😁

23/07/2024

Teresa, Diane and Jodine are having a wonderful time in Gavarnie with the this afternoon! Teresa has been done the TT-induction donkey-ride! 🫏🍨☀️

18/07/2024

Archbishop John is leading a pilgrimage to Lourdes this summer, with Bishop Paul, between 23-30 August under the umbrella of the Catholic Association.

Join us on the pilgrimage and come together in faith, procession and prayer, drawing closer to the Lord Jesus through Our Lady of Lourdes.

The pilgrimage aims to be as accessible as possible, Young helpers and voluntary medical professionals are welcome: funding details are now available, visit https://bit.ly/Lourdes24

For more information visit www.rcaos.org.uk/lourdes24 or Tangney Tours

16/07/2024

Happy Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel!
Today in Lourdes, we also commemorate the 166th anniversary of the last Apparition of Our Lady, the Immaculate Conception, to St. Bernadette.
We wish you all a Blessed day.
If you would like to participate in a pilgrimage to Fatima, Lourdes, Rome or any of our other pilgrimage destinations, please click on this link:

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12/07/2024

Such great news! Our Lady of Walsingham, pray for us. 🙏🏻

The Vatican has granted permission for Our Lady of Walsingham to be celebrated as a new Feast in the dioceses of England, starting this year on 24 September.

11/07/2024

Communication to Pilgrimage Directors and Presidents of Hospitalities from Fr. Michel Daubanes, Rector of the Sanctuary of Lourdes on July 9th., 2024. (Translated from French version).

Dear friends, pilgrimage directors and presidents of Hospitality,

Since July 1st, work is being carried out on five baths to ensure improved, continuous filtering of the water in the piscines (baths). Single-use linen and disinfectant mats will help to reinforce the sanitary process. More than €200,000 has be allocated to these improvements in 2024.

Five baths will now be dedicated to the total immersion of pilgrims who wish to do so.

Pilgrimage directors and presidents of Hospitality coming to Lourdes from July 15th are invited to contact the baths service to find out about the possibilities that are opening up but which remain conditional on the presence of a sufficient number of HNDL helpers. Diocesan Hospitalité workers who have already bathed can, of course, volunteer to provide assistance and reinforcements.

We are doing everything we can, with the precious dedication of the Hospitalité of Our Lady of Lourdes, to welcome you in the best possible way and respond to the hope raised by the possibility of a traditional bath in the Sanctuary of Lourdes. Sick and healthy pilgrims will continue to be invited to experience the Water Gesture which allows a considerable number of people to honor the request of the Immaculate Virgin:

“Come, drink at the spring and wash yourself there” (9th apparition, February 25th, 1858).

With fraternal love,

Fr. Michel Daubanes

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02/07/2024

Statement by the Bishop of Tarbes & Lourdes, Msgr. Jean-Marc Micas on Tuesday 2nd. July, 2024 regarding the mosaics on the facade of the Rosary Basilica (translated from the original French version).

Following the revelation of numerous assaults in which Marko Rupnik was implicated, the question arose about the future of the mosaics he created for the Sanctuary of Lourdes and which are displayed on the facade of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary. Many people who were victims of sexual violence and abuse by clerics have expressed their suffering and the violence that this exhibition now constituted for them.

Between May and October 2023, with the Rector of the Sanctuary, we set up a commission to discern the response to this difficult question. Among the members of this commission were victims (French and foreign nationals), but also experts specializing in sacred art, lawyers, people involved in the prevention and fight against abuse, and the chaplains of Lourdes. The commission has been working since November 2023 until now. At the same time, I have been able to listen to and read the opinions of many people who wanted to send me their own inputs: cardinals and bishops, artists, lawyers, victims, pilgrims, etc.

Today, I see that opinions are very divided and often split. Should these mosaics be left where they are? Should they be destroyed? Should they be removed or exhibited elsewhere? There has been no consensus to any proposal. The positions are intense and passionate.

For my part, my personal opinion is now clear: this situation has nothing to do with other works whose author and victims are deceased, sometimes for several centuries. Here, the victims are alive and the artist is also alive. Furthermore, I have understood over the months that it is not my responsibility to reason from the status of a work of art, from its "morality" which should be distinguished from that of its artist. My role is to ensure that the Sanctuary welcomes everyone, and especially those who suffer; among them, victims of abuse and sexual assault, children and adults. In Lourdes, the tried and wounded people who need consolation and reparation must keep first place. This is the true grace this Sanctuary: nothing must prevent them from responding to the message of Our Lady inviting them to come on pilgrimage. Because this has become impossible for many, my personal opinion is that it would be preferable to remove these mosaics.

This option does not have widespread support. It even meets with real opposition from some: the subject arouses passions. Today, the best decision to make is not yet mature, and my conviction regarding the decision, which would not be sufficiently understood, would add even more division and anger.

I will therefore continue to work even more with victims, to discern what should be done, here in Lourdes, to honour the absolute requirement of consolation and reparation.

From now on, and in a concrete way, I have decided that these mosaics will no longer be highlighted as they were until now by the play of light during the Marian procession that brings together pilgrims every evening. This is a first step. We will discern, with the people of good will who agree to help us, the following steps.

It is up to me as "Guardian of the Grotto", and beyond the specific question of the future of these mosaics, to move forward concretely, again and again in welcoming victims and all the wounded, fragile and poor people to Lourdes. This will be my work for the months to come, with those who agree to continue to help me.

I entrust this situation to the mercy of God and to the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Bernadette.

13/06/2024

What a beautiful day it is here in Lourdes today. If you haven’t booked your place on a pilgrimage yet, please check out our website to see what places we still have available.

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09/06/2024

🙏🏻 OCTOBER PILGRIMAGE TO FATIMA 🙏🏻

On the 13th of May 1917 Our Lady appeared to three little shepherds while they were watching over their flocks at a place called Cova da Iria in central Portugal, now known as Fatima.

The three children, Lucia de Jesus (10), and her cousins Francis (8) and Jacinta Marto (7) had already been prepared for the arrival of Our Lady by the visit of an Angel during the spring, summer and autumn of 1916.

The Angel of Peace (or Angel of Portugal), as the Angel is now called, gave an urgent request for continued prayer and this was later re-enforced by Our Lady’s insistence for greater devotion to the Rosary. Many pilgrims from all over the world, sometimes up to one million at a time, make the pilgrimage to Fatima on the 12th and 13th of the months of May-October to pray to our Lady of Fatima.

WHILE IN FATIMA, YOUR PROVISIONAL PILGRIMAGE INCLUDES:

* Walking tour of the Sanctuary with visits to the Chapel of Apparitions, the Rosary Basilica and the new Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity
* Concelebrated Mass as the Chapel of the Apparitions and participation in all the ceremonies, including the daily 9:30pm International Rosary and torchlight procession
* International Mass on the 13th and the Adieu to Our Lady with the waving of white handkerchiefs, a tradition at the closing of the ceremonies
* Visit to Fatima parish church, Valinhos, Cabesco and the village of Aljustrel to see the homes of the children
* There will be lots of free time throughout the pilgrimage for personal devotions and for shopping

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK
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26/05/2024

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Sponsored by Tangney Tours earlier today!

Have you spotted the person without the red coat?!

26/05/2024

Tangney Tours sponsored the UK Military band on a tour of the Lourdes on the little train! A great way to share some music with the town! 😊

26/05/2024

25/05/2024

Heading off to the opening ceremony.
The concert is tonight! Keep watching for new, musical posts later!! 🥁🎷🎺💂🏻‍♀️💂🏻

24/05/2024

24/05/2024

🛐 🚌PLACES STILL AVAILABLE…….. BOOK NOW! 🙏🏻⛪️

* Lourdes, Burgos, Santiago de Compostela and Fatima*
8 nights, departing 6th September 2024

Fly to Lourdes on 6th September, 2024, spending 2 nights in the Marian town with ample opportunity to spend special time at the Blessed Grotto, take part in the processions, participate in the Water Gesture and daily Mass.

On day 3, we make our way to Burgos, which has been a stop off point for the pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela for hundreds of year. Holy Mass is celebrated in the Santa Cristo chapel in the magnificent Cathedral of Burgos.

Stopping at Sahagun for Holy Mass the next day, we then head to Santiago de Compostela where we stay for 2 nights. The following day there is a guided visit of this world-famous pilgrim city and an opportunity to attend Holy Mass in the historic St. James’ Cathedral.

The next day, we leave for Fatima where we stay for the next 3 nights. As well as attending daily Holy Mass, we participate is the Way of the Cross, the International Rosary, a visit to Valinhos and Aljustrel which were very special to the three little visionaries Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta. On 13th. September, the anniversary of the 5th Apparition, we attend the International Concelebrated Mass, at the end of which we bid “Adieu” to Our Lady of Fatima as her statue passes through the congregation at the end of Mass.

Flights home depart from Lisbon.

Cost: £999 per person, excluding flights
Price includes: *full/half board accommodation based on shared rooms with private facilities
*Full pilgrimage itinerary
*Spiritual director and /or courier plus local English speaking guides
*Full services of a luxury coach

To book your place, and to endeavour to get the best prices on flights, please click on the link, or contact our UK office.
We look forward to sharing this wonderful pilgrimage with you in September! ✈️🚌✈️⛪️🙏🏻

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24/05/2024

❓Did you know? ❓

Saint Therese, like her older sisters, became devoted to religion from an early age, joining the Carmélite convent in Lisieux at just 15 years of age. She devoted her life to religion, produced many spiritual writings and became one of the best-loved Catholic figures of her century. Saint John Paul II declared her the 33rd Doctor of the Catholic Church because of her spiritual writings. This is an exceptional honour, as she was the first woman to receive this title.

Fr. Leo Illah CSSP is leading a 2 - night pilgrimage by coach to Lisieux in September, where you will walk on the footsteps of St. Therese. Visits include: Les Buissonettes which was St. Therese’s home in Lisieux and where she saw the statue of the Blessed Virgin smiling at her, causing her conversion; the Carmel Chapel; and the magnificent Basilica of St. Therese.

Dates: 6th. - 8th. September, 2024
Price: from £355 (single room supplement £20)
Accommodation: Ermitage Sainte Thérèse

For further information, please click on the link below

https://www.tangney-tours.com/tours-and-pilgrimages/group-lisieux-fr-leo/

What is included:
* Travel by coach
* P&O Ferries Dover - Calais crossing
* Half board accommodation at Ermitage Sainte Thérèse
* Travel pack containing luggage labels and pilgrimage badge

19/05/2024

The Olympic Flame passed through Lourdes this morning.
Not even the rain could quench the excitement (luckily it didn’t quench the flame either! 🤭


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19/05/2024

Wishing you all the blessings and gifts of the Holy Spirit on this Pentecost Sunday, and always. 🕊️

18/05/2024

🛫 BOOK NOW 🛬!

🇮🇹 🇻🇦 SEPTEMBER PILGRIMAGE TO ROME 🇻🇦🇮🇹, flying from MANCHESTER

There are still a few places left on this 3-night pilgrimage to Rome, led by Fr. Montgomery.
2nd - 5th September 2024
Return flights from Manchester

Price includes:
* 3 nights accommodation on half board basis in Hotel Emmaus in Rome.
* Daily Masses in the beautiful churches of Santa Maria in Traspontina, St Anne’s – Vatican Church and St Maria delle Grazia Alle Fornaci.
* Half day coach tour on Tuesday– sites to visit to be decided
* Papal Audience in St Peter’s Square on Wednesday
* Free time to explore the magnificent sights of Rome, for shopping or to enjoy a gelato while watching the world go by in one of the many « piazzae » in Rome!
* B&B in your hotel; dinner in a local restaurant
* Full services of an English speaking courier for the duration of the pilgrimage

Prices from: £820 (Single supplement £90)

To book your place, please click on the link below, or call Gill on: 0044 1732 8866 66

https://www.tangney-tours.com/tours-and-pilgrimages/group-rome-fr-edmund-montgomery/departures/

13/05/2024

Happy Feast of Our Lady of Fatima to you all🙏🏻!

16/04/2024

What a beautiful way to reflect on the anniversary of St. Bernadette’s death on this day, 16th. April, 1879. She was only 35 years old.
This morning, Fr. Stephen and his Parish of Our Lady of Sorrows concelebrate Mass at Bernadette’s beloved Grotto.
St. Bernadette, pray for us today and always. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.

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31/03/2024

Wishing you all a Happy, Blessed Easter. Alleluia!

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