SAN DIEGO — Catholics ages 18 to 39 are invited to participate in the annual Young Adult Lenten Pilgrim Walk.
The event, which in past years has attracted about 30 young adults, will be held on Saturday, March 28.
Participants will meet at noon at All Hallows Church in La Jolla, where they will park their cars, and then be taken by bus to Sacred Heart Parish in Ocean Beach. They will walk an approximately 8-mile route that will take them to St. Brigid Parish in Pacific Beach and then to All Hallows Parish.
The plan is to arrive All Hallows in time for confession at 4:30 and Mass at 5:30 p.m.
There will be the option to join up with the pilgrimage at St. Brigid’s or, for families with small children, at a location about 1.5 miles from All Hallows Church.
The pilgrim walk is sponsored by the diocesan Office for Youth and Young Adult Ministry.
Maricruz Flores Strauss, the office’s director, said that the Lenten Pilgrim Walk makes things easy by presenting the opportunity to go on pilgrimage “in your (own) backyard.”
Evelyn Knuff, an office associate director, reflected on the spiritual benefits of participating in the walk.
“You get to shut off a lot of the distractions in life and enter into prayer and into meaningful conversation or just (allow) silence in, which we don’t get many opportunities for,” she said.
“Anyone can go on a walk by yourself and find that refreshing,” she said, “but the sense of community that comes with walking together … is really valuable.”
For more information, visit sdcatholic.org/youngadult or call (858) 490-8260.
