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With Advent comes opportunities to sing! During this time of the year, millions the world over get into the "Christmas spirit" by singing carols and hymns that uplift spirits and reflect on the birth of the Christ Child. Cities all throughout central Europe set up booths and stalls in their market squares where you can buy everything you need for Christmas - decorations for the tree, candles, crib figures, delicious traditional Christmas treats, and presents for Christmas Eve. And, more importantly - you can sing!
Catholic Pilgrimage Tours - Italy
The very beginnings of our great tradition of choral music can be traced directly to Rome with the Schola Cantorum established by Pope St. Gregory the Great at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in the sixth century. The magnificent treasury of that tradition makes touring for Roman Catholic choirs a spiritual pilgrimage even more than a cultural journey. Imagine your choir singing to the glory of God in a liturgy at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, in Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice, or in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi!
In The Footsteps of Martin Luther
2008 marks the 525th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth, and in response MCI has created itineraries that will have choirs visiting many of the locations so important in the life and times of Luther, from Eisleben to Worms to Wittenberg and Leipzig, where you will see his homes, churches, sanctuaries he used in his darkest hours, and where he translated the Bible into the vernacular.
Follow in the footsteps of the great Scottish father of the Protestant movement by visiting places he frequented and lived, including Perth, Inverness, Glasgow and Edinburgh
In The Footsteps of Pope John Paul the Great
This Musical Pilgrimage Tour will take choirs to the places of significance in Karol Wojtyla's life, including Krakow, where he attended University and was confirmed a Priest, and later, Archbishop. In addition, participating choirs may visit nearby Wadowice - birthplace of John Paul II - as well as the holy city of Czestochowa, where the iconic Black Madonna of Czestochowa hangs in the Jasna Góra Monastery.
In The Footsteps of John and Charles Wesley
Continuing the excitement created with the John Wesley Tercentenary in 2003 and the Charles Wesley Tercentenary in 2007, we are pleased to offer pilgrimage tours to Britain that follows the "footsteps" of the Wesley brothers. Each year, many thousands visit the historic sites of Methodism associated with John and Charles Wesley, Francis Asbury and the early Methodists.
