{"id":29616,"date":"2026-08-14T22:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/?p=29616"},"modified":"2026-08-14T22:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:33:27","slug":"associate-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/associate-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes will take place from September 3 to 8, led by Archbishop Farrell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">We continue to encourage you to be part of our Pilgrimage by becoming an Associate Member of this year\u2019s Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">It now costs approximately \u20ac1,200 to bring a sick or assisted pilgrim to Lourdes. This year an additional \u20ac60 fuel surcharge has been added to the fare for each Assisted Pilgrim which the Pilgrimage fund will have to pay. We request a payment of \u20ac650 from each Assisted Pilgrim but only if they can afford it. Nobody is ever refused for inability to pay. This is why the Associate Appeal is vital to ensure the continuation of the Dublin Pilgrimage\u2019s service to the sick.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Contributions will be gratefully received through the Lourdes Office directly\u00a0<i>or<\/i>\u00a0donate\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/platform.payzone.ie\/customer\/10016\/product-list\/details\/4010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/platform.payzone.ie\/customer\/10016\/product-list\/details\/4010&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1786795111164000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0LfV1nJGaHXiy-6QSKpwHY\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">via our Payzone link<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">For any queries, please contact the Pilgrimage Office at 01 8087555.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes will take place from September 3 to 8, led by Archbishop Farrell. We continue to encourage you to be part of our Pilgrimage by becoming an Associate Member of this year\u2019s Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. It now costs approximately \u20ac1,200 to bring a sick or assisted pilgrim to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/associate-membership\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Associate Membership<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29617,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29616\/revisions\/29617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}