Lough Derg - The Toughest Pilgrimage In The World, Ireland 1985
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Lough Derg in County Donegal is a place of pilgrimage for thousands of Irish people.
Last year thirty thousand pilgrims spent three days and three nights on what has been called, “the toughest pilgrimage in the world”.
The menu on Lough Derg is black tea, dry toast, oatcakes and a little soup.
Very basic meals are the only break that pilgrims have from walking long hours barefoot on the stony ground or praying at the basilica. So why do people do it?
One man says he usually feels good when he is leaving the island but does not feel so good during the pilgrimage. For others, Lough Derg offers an escape from day to day life, a place to pray in peace. For newcomers, many are curious about what the pilgrimage will hold.
Monsignor Gerard McSorley explains that it is not only older people who make the pilgrimage a surprising number of young people take the trip to Lough Derg.
The strange thing is that it’s the young people who are coming.
The pilgrims’ path involves walking barefoot around the holy crosses which have been places of prayer since 600 AD. By night, pilgrims attend prayer vigils in the basilica.
Early pilgrims spent nine days on the island and plunged into the freezing lake three times a day for purification.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 13 August 1985. The reporter is Maggie O’Kane.
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I completed this pilgrimage when i was 11 years of age. Something i needed to do to empower my vision of guidance in this life . I felt so good afterwards and ill always cherish my time there.
@healthydee381
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I did it too. Probably the toughest thing I've done but there was a definite and unexplainable euphoria afterwards.
Priest would be well pleased with the increasing number of younger pilgrams.
@fredfredericks3496
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So would the crowd in Montrose and the Irish Times. Added cocaine though - that's the only difference.
I'd say you wouldn't need to get there early to make sure you got a place these days!
Maggie O’Kane….The Lois Lane of Ireland. What a Journo. Always wished I’d been her Clarke Kent.
Down with this sort of thing.
@fredfredericks3496
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90s sitcom references are vitally important now. I've never heard them before. I compliment you for your originality.
@tonemc6047
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And I complement you on your original concept of sarcasm.
Michael: "The toughest in the world? ONLY black tea & soup? That's not tough, that's feckin' torture. What's on 2 Mary? Mary: "Ah it's just 400 million muslins fighting to get to that big rock at the same time. It's a pilgrimage of some sort" Michael: "black tea Mary! Have ya heard the likes & we're swimming in milk" Mary: "Well, would you like a mug of scald, milk n all?" Michael: "I would be God, n a slice of that soda bread if it's on the menu?" Pilgrimage mehole!"
Glory be to the Holy Trinity.
Why? maybe we like the misery...
@kanthakathewhite1012
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Cake father ?
@healthydee381
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Grace in suffering. You only grow and accomplish through suffering.
If mass wasn't torture enough
When Ireland was Ireland, and men were men.
Our new Tik Tok Government would deny you this, if they could..You'll have no native traditions and be happier..#crib..
Good news Jesus has paid it all his last words it is Finished he’s paid the penalty now we must repent and believe what he has done no amount of good works or penance get us to heaven only Jesus can save us for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life
@healthydee381
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No good works on this earth needed?
@tc6070
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@@healthydee381 EPHESIANS 2:9 KJ 21 not by works, lest any man should boast