The Teresian Association will hold a pilgrimage to Covadonga, a Marian shrine in the Principality of Asturias (Spain) on September 27 and 28, fulfilling the wish of Pedro Poveda, its founder, to offer the fruits of its mission each year before La Santina.
The 2025 event highlights the background of the Jubilee of Hope and the central theme of the letter of the year, Strengthening the communion that drives the mission.
Members, family members, collaborators, and friends of the Association will arrive at the shrine and cave of Covadonga to accompany the group of offerers representing the Association as a whole.
This year's offerers are:
- Rebecca Calaor, a Filipino who has lived in the Holy Land since 1983.
- Barnabé Mombula Mopambo, from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Patricia Stockton, from the United States.
- Rocío Rosado, from Spain.
- Magda Alcalá y Emilia Paniagua, representing the International TA Youth Network.
- Brigitte Krach, from Germany.
All pilgrims may join the events in the program below:
Saturday, September 27:
♦ Prayer, 19:30 in the Cathedral. Open to all.
Sunday, September 28:
♦ 9:00 in the morning in the Cathedral, the event in which the offerers will present their different mission realities. Open to all.
♦ 12:00 noon, in the Cathedral, celebration of the Eucharist and institutional offering at the moment of thanksgiving.
These events can be watched live on the Shrine's YouTube channel.
Gazing at La Santina
The TA President, Gregoria Ruiz, proposed a special focus for this annual gathering, linking it to the Church's jubilee pilgrimage: “to be pilgrims of hope in a world that seems to have lost it.”
She highlighted two shared desires for the pilgrimage: to move forward in the culture of encounter and to strengthen communion.
Pedro Poveda, who was Canon in Covadonga from 1906 to 1913, wrote in 1928: “Before the image of La Santina, prayers were said, plans were made, and the development of the Work was envisioned, so to speak.[…] In short, seven years of intense life in that blessed place gave me so much, and everything they gave me revolved around my life's ideal, which emerged and crystallized as I gazed upon La Santina.”
Year after year, without interruption since 1934, the Association has fulfilled the promise made by Pedro Poveda that a group of TA members would present and offer before La Santina the fruits of the whole year, in order to maintain awareness of its Marian origin and to acknowledge the gifts received through Mary's intercession.
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