November Heaven’s Pilgrimages: a month of prayer for our departed

Foreword by Rev. Fr. Don Guillaume d’Anselme, chaplain at the shrine.
Dates, schedules and guest speakers
Why attend Montligeon Heaven’s Pilgrimages?
The afterlife, what is really?

Perpetual Mass Offering
Join a Montligeon prayer Group near you
To contact the shrine
Coming by bus
Making your pledge in the Fraternity

“I came for
my son“

“Mary, Queen of purgatory”

“Oblivion is the true tomb of the dead”

At the core of all the spiritual activities on offer at the shrine, the 5 “Heaven’s Pilgrimages” are the summon of the prayer for the deceased. Taking place in November every year, on All Saints Day and All Souls Day, they develop during the subsequent 3 following Sundays. They represent a tremendous opportunity to welcome numerous groups of pilgrims from near and afar, especially Montligeon Prayer Groups. They also offer to renew ones’ – or to engage in- committing to praying for the souls in purgatory, or to receive theological tuition, and to altogether experiment the spiritual Fraternity of Montligeon.

3 reasons to come and take part in the Hevean’s pilgrimages at the shrine!

Fr. Paul Denizot and Sr. Cecilia are inviting all to come and take part in these high pilgrimages open to all.

Through experiencing praying with others, praising God, solace, forgiveness and tuition, we enter more fully into communion with our departed ones.

Moreover, through praying altogether, we connect with each other in joy, through singing, sharing and feeling we are deeply in communion with one another with regard to the same spiritual realities.

The Heaven’s Pilgrimages take place at the shrine and follow a day schedule. They begin at 10 am by a collective spiritual preparation with possibility to go to confessions. High Mass is celebrated at 11 am followed by lunch break. At 2:30 pm, the prayer of the Rosary and at 3 pm, tuition on Christian Hope. The day pilgrimage ends with Vespers and the salute of the Blessed Sacrament. Each of these Day Pilgrimages are facilitated and preached by a renowned priest or bishop.

What is commemorated on All Souls Day?

Find out more about the 2023 All Saints & All Souls solemnities with Rev Fr. Don Paul Denizot, rector of the shrine of Our Lady of Montligeon, in collaboration with application YouPray.

“Yes indeed, we may continue to take care of our dead and be included in the prayer of the Church: it is the great message of hope that the shrine seeks to herald and offer by means of the Montligeon spiritual pilgrimages.”

Rev. Fr. Don Paul Denizot, Rector

“Death doesn’t bring an end to it all!”

“Praying for my dad”

“Praying for bereaved people”

Free attendance throughout,
but registration is compulsory

Individuals registration

Everyone can take part in the pilgrimages free of charge. Yet, in order to help our organisation, registration is compulsory if you wish to take a meal at the shrine catering amenities or to picnic on our premises, or for overnight accommodation (suggested offering B&B: 39€).

For constituted groups taking their picnic, it is essential to let the reception know so as to accommodate your group indoors (November can be quite cool in Normandy!)

Register online or by
phone: 02 33 85 17 00.

Suggested offerings for luncheon:

Adults: 14.50€

Children: 11€

(Children aged 3 to 17)

Constituted groups registration

All welcome!

For prayer groups and parish groups, please download, print the registration leaflet and return it to the shrine asap by email to:

groupesdepriere@montligeon.org

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Saturday
15th Nov.

07:30 – Lauds – LIVE
08:00 – Mass – LIVE
16:00 – Adoration / confessions
17:15 – Rosary
17:45 – Vespers 
20:30 – Prayer Vigile – LIVE

Sunday
16th Nov.
2025

Pilgrimage presided by:
Mgr Joseph Tobji, archevêque maronite d’Alep, Syrie.
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09:00 – Lauds – LIVE
11:00 – Mass – LIVE

14:30 – Rosary – LIVE
15:00 – Conference by Msgr Jacques Perrier
15:45 – Vespers and salute of the Blessed Sacrament

Saturday
22th Nov.

07:30 – Lauds – LIVE
08:00 – Mass – LIVE
16:00 – Adoration / confessions
17:15 – Rosary
17:45 – Vespers 
20:30 – Prayer Vigile – LIVE

Sunday
23th Nov.
2025

Pilgrimage presided by:
Mgr Jean-Pierre Vuillemin, évêque du Mans.
09:00 – Lauds – LIVE
11:00 – Mass – LIVE

14:30 – Rosary – LIVE
15:00 – Conference-LIVE
15:45 – Vespers and salute of the Blessed Sacrament –LIVE

How do I subscribe to the shrine’s YouTube channel ?

Go to Youtube,
click on a proposed video, then click on the red button to the right “subscribe” (it’s free).

What is the afterlife, really?

Where do my loved ones go when they have passed away? The Gospel does not offer an immediate answer, but opens a way, by shedding a light on the greta mystery of life, and thus, of death, and the afterlife.

Rev. Fr. Bertrand Lesoing is a priest of the Community St. Martin and a professor in theology at the community House of Formation in Evron, France. From 2016 to 2020, he was one the chaplains at the shrine of Montligeon, world center of prayer for the deceased.

Fr. Lesoing’s conference during the 2020 edition of the Rosary Pilgrimage in Lourdes, and filmed by Lourdes TV.

Enroll your loved ones
in the Fraternity of Our Lady of Montligeon

Moreover, the shrine of our Montligeon proposes to enroll, during the November pilgrimages, and throughout the year, living or deceased persons in the spiritual Fraternity of Our Lady of Montligeon.

Thus, enrollees benefit from the perpetual Mass celebrated to their intention on a daily basis.

Join a constituted group

Contact Marie:

You’d rather come on your own?

Reception desk:

For further information on buses leaving from Paris or Rennes, please contact Etoile Notre Dame (travel pilgrimage agency) : +33 (0)2 43 30 45 67

Approximate cost per person for the bus: 40€ from Paris.

Special bus from Paris
on 16th November 2025

07:00 : Paris Porte d’Auteuil
20:00 : Return at Paris Porte d’Auteuil

People who wish so, commit themselves to offer God, prayers and their humble daily life for the sake of all enrollees in the Fraternity of Our Lady of Montligeon, living or deceased. It also means they will see to having Mass celebrated for the faithful departed. Rosary is highly recommended together with the prayer to Our Lady of Montligeon, on a daily basis. Marial devotion should be inspiring their spiritual life. Also, they should attend Mass and receive communion on Sundays and on Marian festivals.

During the Montligeon Heaven’s Pilgrimages, (or at other times elsewhere in the world) members of the spiritual Fraternity of our Lady of Montligeon may choose to engage further and make a pledge, during an Eucharistic celebration, in favour of the souls in Purgatory, .

This pledge in the Fraternity of Our Lady of Montligeon is a most beautiful commitment. It epitomizes great charity and a desire of advancing towards holiness. What is required? Only to offer joys and pains of one’s life, throughout one’s life, so that graces and merits obtained be tendered for the sanctification of the souls in Purgatory, through the Communion of Saints.

Interested by it?
Please contact
Marie by phone or email, in charge of the Prayer Groups of the Fraternity of Our Lady of Montligeon (MPG’s in short!)

Contact Marie:

9 days of prayer for your deceased with Our Lady Liberatrix

For 9 days, pray for them, that they may enter heaven and be seated by God to live in his eternal love!

Hozana is a social prayer network that allows you to create or join prayer communities via an application you can install on your smartphone.

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From 31st Octobre till 2nd Novembre 2023, follow us on the topic of the after-life and the souls in purgatory with Fr. Paul Denizot.