Camino Chaplaincy 2016

Welcome - Camino Chaplaincy 2016

This year Fr Joe Coghlan, the Director of the Camino Chaplaincy returns to Santiago as Chaplain for 6 months. Helping in Santiago and on the Camino Outreach Programme we welcome:

Frs Pat Brophy,  s.m, Dominc O’Hara, Stephen Pritchard, Ken Laverone OFM, John Jhul  OFM Cap, John Larsen s.m, Alan Neville MSC, Gerard Postlethwaite, Tony O’Riordon SJ, Eoin Whooley, Juan Carlos. Chaplaincy Assistants: Alan Pearce,  John Piggott, Robin Piggott, Annette Argall, Richard Mallory, Pauline Rosseau, Morrell Rouseau, Moira Selvage.

Seal of approval

We are delighted to have the blessing and support of Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster and President of the Bishop’s Conference of England and Wales. The Cardinal hopes to visit Santiago with Bishop Ralph to see our work at first hand.

We are also grateful for the enthusiastic support of the Provincial Council of the Franciscan Order and the Bishop of Lugo for the Camino Chaplaincy Outreach programme in O Cebreiro and in Moratinos and Terredillo de los Templarios.         

Bishop Ralph, President of the Chaplaincy with Cardinal Nichols

New season begins

By the end of April the Chaplain Fr Joe Coghlan will arrive and on Monday 2 May 2016 the 4^th year of the Camino Chaplaincy begins in Santiago. There will be daily mass in English in the Cathedral at 10.30am in the same place as previous years – the Chapel of Nuestra Señora  de la Soledad.

This year there will also be SUNDAY MASS in English in the Chapel at 9am.

These will continue until 14 October 2016.    

Fr Joe will be available for confessions or simply a chat before and after the morning masses and also in the evening in the Cathedral.

Chaplaincy assistants, who like Fr Joe are also volunteers, will open the Chapel for prayer and reflection at 9am and will be available to welcome and chat with visitors.

Pilgrims arrive in O Cebreiro

Camino Chaplaincy Outreach

This year from June – September the Chaplaincy will also welcome pilgrims in O Cebriero and in Moratinos/ Terradillos de los Templarios. Priests who have volunteered to help the Chaplaincy will spend some of each day on the Camino meeting and greeting pilgrims and in the evening there will be an international Pilgrims’ Mass. Most of the priests speak Spanish as well as English. Everyone is welcome.

We will announce the exact times of services before the programme starts and we will put posters up in local albergues, hostals and restaurants etc.

O Cebreiro – Diocese of Lugo

Church of Saint Peter - Terradillos de los Templarios

The Chaplaincy is delighted to be working in close collaboration with the Franciscan Order who have two priests already in the parish in O Cebreiro. However they are also responsible for 13 other parishes!

Moratinos/Terradillo de los Templarios – Diocese of Palencia

Last year piloted providing our ministry in Moratinos and the neighbouring pueblo of Terradillo de los Templarios.  These villages are situated  half way along the Camino Francés . This year Chaplaincy priests will be there for a longer period and will open the churches to passing pilgrims and provide evening mass.

When the prayers come marching in

Prayer is at the heart of the Camino Chaplaincy. Wherever we are in Santiago or out on the Camino we meet to pray with pilgrims. We also encourage pilgrims to write down their prayer petitions and leave them with us. These are prayed for every day during the season and beyond.

Earlier this year we invited people who will not be going on pilgrimage to email their petitions to us. A considerable number have arrived and every day more petitions join them.  Please circulate this information to your contacts.   

Email your petitions to prayersantiago@gmail.com