Sunday’s events – further detailed instructions

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 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 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 19 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!