Stefan McDaniel of New York City has made pilgrimage twice in penance and in honor of the American martyrs at Auriesville, the second time in 2017.
Here’s his story.
American Pilgrimage, by Stefan McDaniel, in First Things online, February 2020 — https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/02/american-pilgrimage
Dates for Pilgrimage 2020 are, as is the custom, the last weekend in September.
This year the traditional feast of the martyrs of New France, September 26, occurs directly in the midst of pilgrimage, on Saturday.
Friday – Sunday, 25 – 27 September 2020 A.D.
Check back soon to download the pilgrims’ prayer, and for announcements of very special events.
Come to restore. The rest will come.
Campers staying Thursday night at the Battleground Campground at Lake George ARE OBLIGED, naturally, to keep their own campsite and all the campground clean and orderly, including the public bathrooms.
Every camper must observe the quiet time from 10:0pm til 07:00am. That means LIGHTS OUT and that no one beyond your site, in an adjacent site, may hear you make any noise after 10:00pm Thursday evening until 07:00 Friday morning.
Please spread the word.
Not everyone overnights Thursday at the same accommodations, but IF YOU ARE STAYING THURSDAY NIGHT at the Lake George BATTLEGROUND CAMPGROUND it is best to pre-book/to reserve your stay there.
(Campers who stay at the Battleground Campground Thursday must pay their own way to overnight there. The pilgrimage does not begin until Friday morning.)
Click here, to reserve your camp site.
You may also pay the camping fee there in person, at the entrance to to the Battleground Campground.
Upwards of six campers may overnight per site, and split the site fee.
The race is on. It’s now days til step-off, September 27.
Look for a (short) series of posts on this blog to appear one, and sometimes two each day, starting tomorrow.
The posts are specially designed to help pilgrims to find answers to the more frequently asked questions. Read More
As every pilgrim has surely noticed … just a minute into step-off … the Pilgrimage is a prayerful, musical event.
The pilgrimage’s traditional hymns & Mass of the Blessed Virgin are available on CD.
The songs are sung a capella (that is, without instrumental accompaniment), so you and your family & friends can learn by singing along.
Click here to download sample MP3s of the songs & hymns, gratis.
Click here to order your copy of these beautiful and inspiring hymns.
Click here to order the companion Pilgrims’ Handbook, over 20 pages of lyrics to follow along — and pages of traditional prayers of pilgrimage.
Register today to sing & pray on pilgrimage yourself!
- Martyrs’ Story
- Crown Him with Many Crowns
- Immaculate Mary
- Faith of Our Fathers
- Hail, Holy Queen Enthroned Above
- For All the Saints
- Daily, Daily, Sing to Mary
- Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
- Alleluia! Sing to Jesus
- To Jesus Christ, Our Sov’reign King
- Come, Holy Ghost, Creator Blest
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Sanctus
- Agnus Dei
- Credo
- Pater Noster
- O Sacred Head Surrounded
- Soul of My Savior
- Ave Verum Corpus
- Panis Angelicus
- Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All
- Adoramus te Christe
- O Lord, I Am Not Worthy
- O Sanctissima, O Piisima
- Adoro te Devote
- Pange Lingua
- O Salutaris Hostia
- Veni Creator Spiritus
- A Huron Carol
- Ave Maria (Schubert)
- Ave Maria (Chartres)
- Sing Praise to Our Creator
- Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
- Salve Regina
- O Sacred Head Surrounded (reprise)
- Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
Click here to order the companion Pilgrims’ Handbook, over 20 pages of lyrics and prayers of pilgrimage.
Register today to sing & pray on pilgrimage yourself
24th annual
Friday – Sunday
September 27-29, 2019 A.D.
“Nobody makes pilgrimage alone.”
“In unione orationum.”
“Now is the acceptable time.”
Ad majorem Dei gloriam.”
Now is the time to register to pilgrimage to Auriesville. Register on this page. It’s simple and easy.
You can also make pilgrimage from afar, from home or parish: obtain a plenary indulgence, sponsor a pilgrim (or two), request prayers or offer them — all from this page.
Listen to and learn the Songs of Pilgrimage!
Question: My sister and I — and maybe a brother or fellow parishioner — are very interested in signing up for pilgrimage.
Answer: Thanks be to God for the grace of pilgrimage. What’s keeping you from registering today?
Q: We’d like to know Read More
(There is still no fee to register for Sunday-only.)
Discounts are still available after Read More
“Pray without ceasing.” It’s never too early to join fellow pilgrims in prayer. To make it easier to remember and recite the short prayer each day, every pilgrim is asked to print it out, post it to the refrigerator in the kitchen, leave it at one’s night table next to the bed, tape it to the mirror in the bathroom … Ok, you get the point.
So, click here to download the prayer of St Nicholas of Flüe.
Spread the word, too!
Post the file to your Facebook page or blog.
Print it out, and take copies to your parish or church events, and distribute them to friends, family, parishioners, and fellow Catholics everywhere. Read More
Thanks to your Mother, in other words, you don’t have to miss the pilgrimage because you were ‘a day late and a few dollars short’ (again?) this year.
Besides ‘alms for palms‘ to sponsor you, the organizers’ policy is that Read More
Day of Recollection – Pilgrimage 2019
Mark your calendar!
Pilgrim families & seniors arriving Sunday are most welcome to join other pilgrim families & seniors already on pilgrimage as early as 10:00am Sunday morning at the Shrine in Auriesville for special, new events there.