Sunday’s events schedule – 2025

[ Details and posts linked on this page await updates for events in 2025. ]

 

There are two options to participate for those arriving Sunday.

And special events, too.  See the blog for details — and a printable timeline.

To learn the steps to bring you to shrine & to step-off, visit the blog here.

OPTION A.

  1. – Designed for those who wish to join the main column at lunchtime and walk the last several miles to the destination Shrine at Auriesville. Option A is for everybody except parents pushing strollers or seniors ‘pushing 80’.

In other words, NO strollers are permitted with pilgrims who choose Option A.

OPTION B.

    – Ideal for the ‘STROLLER BRIGADE!’ and for seniors who are able to walk just the last few miles with the column, along the canalway bike path.

Option B is for parents pushing strollers, the still-ambulatory-elderly, and other pilgrims not ready to make ‘modified pilgrimage’ all three days.

Click here for a post on the blog providing details Options A. and B. — and read on, below.

If you choose Option A, follow these instructions:

To coordinate plans with organizers, please first register for Sunday’s events, gratis.

Then print out the following instructions and directions:

  1. Arrive by 9:45 A.M. Sunday morning at the Auriesville Shrine Visitor Center, in the Visitor Center parking lot.
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  2. There, the Vice-Director for Sunday’s events will greet and direct you to shuttle to the rendezvous point, in order to meet the column on the road, at lunchtime. LAST SHUTTLE DEPARTS AT 11:00 A.M.
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  3. Remember to pack a lunch. (Organizers provide bottled water.)
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  4. After lunch you walk with the main column the last 6 miles to the destination shrine.

After you register, you may choose the option to volunteer to shuttle pilgrims to the ‘Option-A lunchtime rendezvous location‘. (More on that when you arrive.)

After you register, you may also communicate directly, in advance, with the Vice-Director for Sunday’s Events via e-mail, in case you have questions that are not already answered on the website and the blog.

After delivering pilgrims to the rendezvous point, pilgrim drivers return to the Auriesville Shrine to pray or venerate the holy sites.

If you choose Option B, follow these instructions:

To coordinate plans with organizers, first register for Sunday’s events.

Then print out the following instructions and directions:

  1. Arrive at 9:45 at the Visitor Center parking lot to participate in all the special events scheduled for Sunday morning for families explained on this post of the blog.
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    The schedule of activities can be downloaded here in .pdf on the blog.
     
  2. There, the Vice-Director for Sunday’s events will greet and direct you to walk, in brigades, 2.1 miles to the rendezvous point, in order to meet the column on the canalway bike path just south of Ft. Hunter. LAST BRIGADE DEPARTS AT 12:30 P.M. No pilgrim may walk unattached to a brigade.
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  3. Then you walk back to the destination Shrine along canalway trail path to pray the crowning Mass at 3:15 P.M.

Register no later than September 20 if you wish to volunteer to lead pilgrims in your group on foot to the Option-B rendezvous point.

Please consider the multiple, independent actions of hundreds of fellow pilgrims, the serious responsibilities of organizers to prepare for the events Sunday, and the time required to communicate in advance and then to coordinate all of those actions on site.   Please register today for Sunday!