BY Ian Dunn | April 15 | 
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Scottish pilgrimage of hope
Aid to the Church in Need holding day of prayer at Carfin Grotto on April 30 for the persecuted Church
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is holding a Pilgrimage of Hope at Carfin grotto in Motherwell Diocese at the end of this month.
The charity has arranged the day of prayer to remember persecuted and other suffering Christians at Scotland’s national shrine to Our Lady on Saturday April 30.
Neville Kyrke-Smith, ACN’s UK national director, said the pilgrimage served a vital purpose.
“Even in the midst of adversity and oppression the prayers and actions of ACN mean that those we are helping know that they are remembered and not forgotten, this is the one thing that gives them hope,” he said.
Lorraine McMahon, ACN head of operations in Scotland, expressed her thanks to the choir of St Francis Xavier’s Parish who will be singing at the pilgrimage and members of the Knights of St Columba who will be stewarding the event, for volunteering their time.
The pilgrimage will be led by Fr Francis McGachey, the new rector of the shrine, who took up his role in February 2011.
For more details about the Pilgrimage of Hope event at Carfin Grotto, please contact Lorraine McMahon at the ACN Office 2.9, Dalziel Building, 7 Scott Street, Motherwell, Lanarkshire ML1 1PN or call 01698 337 470.
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