To all the great fans of this blog: please come on our wonderful Christ the King Pilgrimage if you're in Australia around the last Sunday in October any year. It runs from the Friday till the Sunday, beginning at St Patrick's Cathedral, Ballarat and ending in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo in the southern state of Victoria. This year it begins next week, on Friday October 23.

If you like singing your prayers, it's a boon. Litanies, rosaries, hymns, etc are sung on the road, while the sung solemn masses are a feast of traditional Catholic music. If you don't like deadly snakes which are just beginning to wake up around here, and spiders, then maybe don't come to the Saturday Votive Mass of Our Lady in the pine grove. But you'll be missing something special - our favourite mass.

You can check out the detailed music schedule here . This 25th anniversary year of the Pilgrimage, on the Sunday, we're doing the Missa Papae Marcelli instead of our usual beloved Missa Brevis. On the Saturday, we're singing the Josquin Ave Maria for the first time instead of the Mouton setting.

It's always a challenge when 40 singers parachute in from across the nation, and indeed the world, and have to put together full sung masses on the basis of one rehearsal each day for 3 successive days. But somehow or other, thanks be to God, it always seems to come off, and it's an incredible experience.

Go here for more information. It's not too late to jump on a plane and come for all or part of this unique liturgical event down under.