Glastonbury 2025 | Parish of St Osmund

Annual Pilgrimage to Glastonbury: Sunday 7th September 2025:

We have booked a coach at a cost of £22 per adult, children 12 to 18 years £15 and under 12s go free. There are sign-up sheets in both churches, please do include your contact details. We want to encourage more young families to attend this year… Never been? Why not consider taking your family along with another Catholic family that you know to make it special for the children? If you would like to go but finance is a problem, you can speak confidentially to Caroline in the office or one of our clergy.

This year’s pilgrimage will be centred around the theme of ‘Mary, Woman of Hope’, aligning with the Jubilee Year’s theme of “Pilgrims of Hope.”

As well as the usual Rosary Procession around Glastonbury town centre in the afternoon, there will be an additional Procession in the morning to celebrate the Jubilee from the Abbey grounds to the top of Glastonbury Tor.

Programme for the Day:
Shrine of Our Lady of Glastonbury
11.00am: Rosary.
11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Silent Adoration & Sacrament of Reconciliation.
2.30pm: Benediction.

Fr Dominic Findlay-Wilson introduces this year’s Pilgrimage

“Mary, Woman of Hope”

Abbey Grounds
11.00am – 12.30pm (approx.): Jubilee Procession to the top of the Tor (able-bodied only).
11.30am – 2.30pm: Private Healing Prayer at the tented Chapel of Healing.
1.45pm: Rosary Procession from the Abbey, through Glastonbury Town Centre, returning to the Abbey via the Magdalene Street Gate, opposite the Shrine Church.
3.00pm: Mass in the Abbey celebrated by Rt. Rev. Bosco MacDonald, Bishop of Clifton.

Car Parking

As well as the municipal car parks pilgrims can use the Glastonbury Event Car Park, ‘Herbie’s Field’. This is a large car park that can accommodate up to 400 cars, including minibuses. The car park is only a short 12-minute walk to the Shrine Church and the Pilgrims’ Entrance to the Abbey Grounds.

Drivers may wish to drop off pilgrims outside the Shrine before parking. The car park is located on Northload Bridge on the B3151 close to the Northload Bridge roundabout on the A39, opposite the Glastonbury Reclamation Centre. Set your sat-nav to BA6 9LE. The what3words location is: ///target.loafing.sticky.

There is a pedestrian crossing on the A39 right by the roundabout. The car park will open at 9:30am on the morning of 7th September and the gates will be closed and locked at 5:30pm.

We kindly request a donation of £5 per car and £10 for minibuses. (Cash only, please, as we will not have card payment facilities at the car park.)