Pielgrzymki w tym roku

Because we discovered last year that the interest in participating in our pilgrimages is greater than the capacity of the church, we decided to organize a total of 6 pilgrimages this year, compared to last year's four.

  • May pilgrimage: May 10
  • Small pilgrimage: July 12
  • Priestly pilgrimage: July 16
  • Large pilgrimage: July 18-19
  • Youth pilgrimage: August 15-16
  • Rosary pilgrimage: October 4

The bishop of Brno, Vojtěch Cikrle, has been invited as the main celebrant for the priestly pilgrimage and the bishop of Olomouc, Josef Hrdlička, for the large pilgrimage.

We want to restore the local tradition of all-night adoration during the large pilgrimage and the youth pilgrimage will be somewhat of an experiment. We wish to present it in a different, more acceptable way for today’s younger generation.

We will also attempt to build an altar in the open space in front of the church, so that at least the most attended holy masses can be held sub divo, that is, in the open air.


The restoration of pilgrimage traditions that has occurred in our country with the arrival of freedom brings many new possibilities but also temptations. Often, due to various pilgrimage trips, we forget the essence of pilgrimage, which has been diluted by the ease and speed of transportation and the unhealthily overloaded programs of many pilgrimage groups.

Pilgrimages to sacred sites have never been the same as visits to castles and chateaus, exhibitions, or variety shows. The essence of this external reality, which has established itself here mainly thanks to the excellent post-Reformation efforts of the Jesuit brothers and has become a natural religious expression of every Catholic parish, is the desire for inner conversion and the expression of our life’s destiny.

The time that a pilgrim spent on the road was one of the essential parts of the entire event, just like the effort involved. All of this directly affected the person who had to trust in God’s providence, leaving behind their loved ones and their household, and experiencing the fate of a pilgrim in this world, subject to the favor or disfavor of the weather. At home, and especially on the way, they prepared for a great reconciliation with God and with people, which was accomplished in the place chosen by God and blessed. Their pilgrimage was an expression of the desire for a change of life, a longing for conversion, and a new experience with God. Physically tired, but spiritually more disposed, they would then move in rhythm with songs and prayers, allowing God’s word in the history of salvation to work on them. They would descend in spirit to the roots of their own spiritual existence and open themselves to new divine action. At the pilgrimage site, they would surrender not only their sins but also their worries for themselves and others, drawing strength and comfort, and in the power of the Spirit, they would return to their daily destiny. If we consider that all of this was not an individual event but that of a parish community, that is, the renewal of the parish combined with a deepening social awareness, we understand how fundamentally different a family trip by car to a pilgrimage mass or a bus tour made up of randomly registered participants with a program of five pilgrimage sites in one day is.

Our current situation is certainly different from the situation in our country during the Baroque period. We are different too, and we cannot ignore the accelerated pace of life, nor the technological advancements that we have become accustomed to using daily with a certain degree of self-evidence. We also do not want to revive outdated traditions or just nostalgically remember what was. We want to live with God, we want to pilgrimage in the church, we want to be led by the Spirit of God, and all we can do is ask for light to give everything an appropriate external expression so that our life’s destiny as pilgrims receives its contemporary expression, and our desire for an encounter with God, who transforms, is not paralyzed by the cheapness of the experiences offered. May we rediscover pilgrimage in Spirit and in truth.