Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
12 days

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***Limited Seats from San Antonio***

Group Leaders:  Deacon Tom Fox, KCHS & Mary Jane Fox, DCHS

Chaplain:  Fr. Rafael Pascual, LC

About Pilgrim Center of Hope

Our Mission:  Pilgrim Center of Hope provides Catholic events, experiences, and media: initiating a desire in people to encounter Jesus Christ in their daily journey of life.

Our core values are humility & trust, docility & discernment, and kerygmatic joy.  

• Pilgrim Center of Hope is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit Catholic ministry, providing experiences & resources to help

      people live daily with hope, encountering Christ and the Church. 

• We are sustained by the prayers and financial donations of organizations and individuals who believe in this

       urgently-needed mission.

• We are…staff, volunteers, prayer intercessors, benefactors…answering Christ’s call to be missionaries of hope!
• https://pilgrimcenterofhope.org/  

About The Foxes 

Deacon Tom & Mary Jane Fox
Co-Founders & Directors

Deacon Tom and Mary Jane Fox had a re-awakening of their Catholic faith in the 1980s. While on a trip through the Holy Land, they were directed by a local priest to take a silent walk along the Sea of Galilee. There, Jesus unmistakably spoke to them each.In September 1986, Deacon Tom and Mary Jane Fox left their respective careers in hotel management and the travel industry to work full-time for St. Matthew Catholic Church. For the first seven years, their main ministry was door-to-door home visitation; in the first few years, they visited over 10,000 families.During those seven years at St. Matthew Church – they helped establish Perpetual Adoration, faith formation ministries, produced secular radio programs “advertising” the Catholic Church & St. Matthew’s Chapel, and other outreach ministries at St. Matthew.Tom was ordained to the permanent Diaconate in August 1988.In 1993, they founded Pilgrim Center of Hope, an evangelization apostolate to guide people to Christ and the Church through evangelization outreach, media productions, conferences, parish missions and pilgrimages.Tom and Mary Jane’s mission has included travel to parishes in California, Kansas, Louisiana, Mexico, and within Texas to give presentations on their ministry experiences, Parish Missions and on Door-to-Door Home Visitation Outreach. They assisted the pastor of St. Ignatius Parish in Belize City, Belize, in a parish-wide evangelization effort.Their ministry of pilgrimages has led them to Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Greece and Turkey. Their specialty (and dearest to their hearts) is the Holy Land, having traveled there more than 66 times since 1986.Their ministry work has been featured in five nation-wide Catholic periodicals and on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) show Living His Life Abundantly in 1995 on the video I Am the Bread of Life, produced by Stepstone Productions, Inc. In February 2008, they received the Catholic Television of San Antonio (CTSA) Leadership Award. In March 2011, they received Guadalupe Radio Network‘s Pescadores de Hombres (Fishers of Men) Award. In 2011, they were invested into the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. In November 2012, they were awarded the Living Stones Solidarity Award from the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation for their work in the Holy Land.They reflect, "The call we received from the Lord to serve in the field of Catholic evangelization has been a most enlightening, inspirational, and challenging vocation!"

https://pilgrimcenterofhope.org/about/staff.html 

Mission:
Pilgrim Center of Hope provides Catholic events, experiences, and media: initiating a desire in people to encounter Jesus Christ in their daily journey of life.

Our core values are humility & trust, docility & discernment, and kerygmatic joy.  

https://pilgrimcenterofhope.org/  

Pilgrimage Includes…

This unique journey of faith includes:

• Round trip airfare from San Antonio with Delta Airlines
• Airline taxes
• 4 nights at the Magdala Hotel in Galilee
• 6 nights at the Notre Dame Hotel in Jerusalem
• Daily breakfast, lunch and dinner
• Daily Mass at various holy sites
• Spiritual direction
• In-person pilgrimage meetings
• Preparation materials
• Pilgrim Book offering detailed daily schedule, maps, and information about the Holy Land
• Service of 40+years experienced pilgrimage group leaders
• Complimentary Tote Bag, Document Holder, and Luggage Tag
• All other taxes
• All Tips

Not included: travel insurance. 

Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

August 30 - September 10, 2026

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