On your first morning in Medjugorjeafterthebreakfast your local English-speaking guide will give you an orientation walk from your hotel to the Church of St. James. Just before English language mass at 10.00am.

You will have a chance to participate in many activities during your stay in Medjugorje. With thousands of pilgrims from all over the world you will celebrate daily mass at  St. James Church. Visiting Bijakovici village, all 6 visionariescome from it, you will go up the Apparition hill, Podbrdo, place where Our Lady first appeared. Each evening at 6.00pm you and thousands of other pilgrims will pray the rosary.

All three Mysteries are prayed during the evening program. In Our Lady’s messages it was repeated many times how important is to come to mass where “we met Jesus alive”. Messages of Prayer of the Rosary, Holy Mass and Confession are the center of the evening program in St. James Church.

The apparition takes place at 5.40 pm or 6.40 daylight savingstime, and even today according to the words of three visionaries apparition takes place every day to Vicka, Ivan and Marija. Mirjana, Jakov and Ivanka are the three visionaries who don’t have daily apparitions but once a year. During your stay you will be able to attend the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Veneration of the Cross in the Church.

After the Holy Mass, there is the Blessing of the Sick and blessing of the religious items, souvenirs you have with you. Among other activities you will have a chance to climb the “Cross mountain”, Krizevac as local people know it, visit the “Blue Cross”, another place of the apparition of Our Lady also nearby Oasis of Peace and community – Cenacolo. Each pilgrim will have time for private devotions, shopping, or simply enjoying your own “freedom of prayer”.