DRAFT OF YOUTHS PILGRIMAGE

TO BISHOPS/PRIESTS & YOUTH COORDINATORS

DEAR ALL,

IT IS CLOSE TO ONE YEAR OF BISHOP VALENTINE’S ORDINATION ON 7TH OF MAY 2022. SINCE THE IDEA OF DOING YOUTH PILGRIMAGE FROM LAE TO MT. HAGEN WAS BORN DURING THIS WONDERFUL DAY, IT WILL BE NICE TO MAKE EFFORT DOING THIS IN MAY 2023.
FR. BUGUSLAW FROM DIVINE MERCY SHRINE WAS VERY ENTHUSIASTIC, ARCHBISHOP OF MT. HAGEN WAS SURPRISED BUT, HE WAS POSITIVE.
THE SAME BISHOP PAUL OF KUNDIAWA, FR. RICHARD WAJDA, BISHOP ROZARIO FROM LAE AND BISHOP VALENTINE HIMSELF.
DURING DEDICATION OF THE CATHEDRAL IN MT. HAGEN, I WAS DOING ADDITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH MICHAELITES, SVD PRIESTS, SOLT SISTERS AND ETC..
FR. ROBERT MSF INSISTED THAT PILGRIMAGE HAVE TO BE EXTENDED ALL THE WAY TO MENDI DIOCESE TO TRADITIONAL AND MAY BE NATIONAL SHRINE IN MULI. THAT IS WHY I NEED TO ASK ADDITIONAL APPROVAL FROM BISHOP OF MENDI AND PARISH PRIEST FROM MULI, FR. DAMIEN (MSF). I NEED GOOD ADVICE FROM MY BROTHERS PRIESTS AND MUCH HELP FROM PROVIDENCE.
Lucky my bishop in Lae is also positive and it was Him who suggested this arrangement in May the month of Holly Mary. Fr. Buguslaw General Vicar in Mt. Hagen was asking the same.
DURING MY VISIT TO POLAND, I WAS GIVEN A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF BLACK MADONNA VENERATED IN POLAND DEARLY HER SIZE IS ALMOST THE SAME LIKE ORIGINAL.
PILGRIMS WILL BRING HER ACCORDING TO THE SUGGESTION OF BISHOP VALENTINE TO MULI.
MY NAME IS FR. YAREK JAROSLAW WISNIEWSKI FD, 60 AFTER 20 YEARS MINISTRY IN POST SOVIET UNION COUNTRIES (RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UZBEKISTAN) 1992 – 2002 I GOT PERMISSION TO WORK IN PNG (KIMBE)
FROM 2014 – 2022.
I WAS THE PARISH PRIEST IN SASVORU VALUPAI AND BARIAI (GLOUCESTER) WHEN COVID 19 STARTED, MY VISA AND CONTRACT EXPIRED SO I GOT TEMPORARY WORK TO MAKE PILGRIMAGE TO RAKUNAI.
WHEN SO MANY PEOPLE WERE PARALYSED AVOIDING COVID 19, I WAS BLESSED TO VISIT BL. PITA TOROT’S NATIVE PLACE FIVE (5) TIMES A YEAR. 2021 WAS THE SAME SO THAT EVEN BEING 60 YEARS OLD I AM EAGER TO SHARE MY EXPERIENCE AGAIN.
DISTANCE FROM LAE TO MT. HAGEN IS ABOUT 500 KM PLUS AND ANOTHER 80KM TO MENDI DIOCESE. 
WE NEED MORE THAN 30 DAYS IF AVERAGE DISTANCE WILL BE 20KM/DAY.
WE NEED STRONG YOUNG AND DEDICATED PEOPLE. WE NEED ALSO LITTLE WELCOME, FOOD AND ACCOMODATION IN EACH OF THE PARISHES. SOME RICE AND VEGETABLES AND MANY DRINKS.
I AM ASKING KIND PERMISSION FROM GOROKA, SIMBU, HAGEN AND MENDI BISHOPS AND PRIESTS, ESPECIALLY YOUTH COORDINATORS…TO DO THIS. WITH A GROUP OF 50 PLUS YOUTHS. 
DEPARTURE FROM EACH POINT WILL BE AROUND 6AM VENUE AROUND 6PM.

DIOCESE OF LAE

22 APRIL – ST. MARTIN PARISH 
23 APRIL – ST. MARYS CATHEDRAL, HOLY SPIRIT PARISH, ST. STEVEN PARISH & CHRIST THE KING PARISH
24 APRIL – ST BENEDICT (TANAM)
25 APRIL – SACRED HEART PARISH (ERAP)
26 APRIL – GANET
27 APRIL – BL. PITA TOROT (TARARAN)
28 APRIL – LERON (FORESTS)
29 APRIL – ST. HENRY (MUTZING)
30 APRIL – DRY WARA (UMI)

DIOCESE OF GOROKA

1 MAY – YONKI
2 MAY – KAINANTU
3 MAY – RAIPINGA (BAROLA)
4 MAY – HENGANOFI
5 MAY – BENA
6 MAY – GOROKA AIRPORT/MSF
7 MAY – MSF/KEFAMO
8 MAY – YAMIOFA
9 MAY – WATABUNG

DIOCESE OF KUNDIAWA

10 MAY – CHUAVE
11 MAY – KOGE
12 MAY – KUNDIAWA HOSPITAL
13 MAY – DIOCESE HOSPITAL
14 MAY – SALESIANS
15 MAY – MIGENDE
16 MAY – KUP
17 MAY – KEROWAGI
18 MAY – MINLA
19 MAY – TUPA

ARCH DIOCESE OF MT. HAGEN

20 MAY – RUKUS
21 MAY – AVIA MWAN
22 MAY – KULI
23 MAY – HAGEN PARISH
24 MAY – HAGEN CATHEDRAL
25 MAY – TOKUBA
26 MAY – ULCA

DIOCESE OF MENDI

27 MAY – KAMAKUL IBONGU
28 MAY – YALIBU PENTAKOS
29 MAY – MULI
30 MAY – YALIBU
31 MAY – RETURN TO LAE

LAST COMMENT: PILGRIMAGE IS A SERIOUS PROGRAM OF JOYFUL, ASCETIC WAY. DURING PILGRIMAGE, WE PRAY. WE DO NOT ACCEPT PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 50 YEARS, PRIMARY OR SECONDARY STUDENTS. ONLY UNMARRIED YOUTHS. NO SICK PERSON, NO BETELNUT CHEWING AND SMOKING. THIS IS STRICTLY A YOUTH PROGRAM OF THE DIOCESE OF LAE. IF SOME INDIVIDUAL PERSON OR GROUP WISH TO JOIN US, WE NEED WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE PARISH PRIEST.