Pilgrims supply their own cold meals for three days, including powdered coffee, hot chocolate, tea bags, instant hot breakfast cereal, as well as Read More
Category: Messages to Pilgrims
Messages to pilgrims
Question #7 – “What gear should I pack, and how should I pack it – and my tent?” – Pilgrimage 2024
In this post we’ll concentrate on what to pack for personal gear, and how to pack it — including your tent. See this webpage for explanations of ‘the basics’, and ‘the essentials’. Read More
Question #5 – “What’s this I heard about ‘check-in’ Thursday evening & rendezvous Friday morning?” – Pilgrimage 2024
That’s right. Every pilgrim without exception must check-in upon arrival at Wood Park, Thursday between 4:30 to 10:30.
Click here to learn how to check-in, stress-free.
Click here to learn how to arrive at the check-in location Thursday after noon.
NOTE WELL: THE LAST SHUTTLE TO THE CHECK-IN LOCATION DEPARTS THE AURIESVILLE SHRINE PARKING LOT AT Read More
Question #4 – “Where can a pilgrim stay overnight Thursday, to be ready for step-off early Friday morning?” – Pilgrimage 2024
Once you’ve registered, begun to pray with fellow pilgrims, and requested the shuttle, it’s time to make plans to Read More
Question #1 – “What should I do first?” – Pilgrimage 2024
After registering, it’s time to do the one thing necessary. … Read More
In honor of the The Blessed Virgin Mary’s Immaculate Heart, students can Offer prayers, request prayers, obtain an indulgence, sponsor a pilgrim – Pilgrimage 2024
Click here to offer or request prayers or to sponsor a pilgrim online. Read More
Is this what’s stopping you? How to get it right from the beginning: forming a new brigade – Pilgrimage 2024
Dear Fellow Pilgrim,
Over the many years of making pilgrimage and helping others to do the same, we have developed a series of steps that the organizers have learned from their experiences. When brigades fail to form or reform from year to year, it is usually because Read More
NEW poster – sample bulletin & web-announcements 2024
Attention clergy, bulletin editors, webmasters, pilgrims all!
Tell the parish family & friends about the 29th annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady’s Martyrs of New France at Auriesville, NY.
All the ‘basic info at a glance’ in a hand-out is now available (in three formats), including a short ‘sample announcement’ for the parish blog or weekly bulletin.
And this all-new easy-to-print poster!
Here’s the sample Read More
Download the pilgrims’ daily prayer, composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe
“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 idea.
So, Read More
Photos galore – Pilgrimage 2023
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Registration for the 29th annual Pilgrimage 2024 is scheduled Read More
Online registration for Sunday-only events remains OPEN – Pilgrimage 2023
Online registration for Sunday-only events remains open until Sunday morning.
Registration for Sunday-only is required, but there is no registration fee.
Register online here for Sunday-only events.
Online registration is better by far for Read More
Online registration is CLOSED. Walk-on registration for all three days of pilgrimage is OPEN at check-in, Thursday afternoon. – Pilgrimage 2023
Online registration for the full pilgrimage closed Monday night, 25 September, at 12:59PM EDT.
But ‘walk-on’ registrations will be accepted on site at check-in, Thursday afternoon.
Print, fill out, and bring this one-page registration form, with cash or check to remit the registration fee, Thursday afternoon.
See the FAQs on this blog for all other instructions.
Blessed pilgrimage!
Modified Pilgrimage Schedule – Pilgrimage 2023
The schedule of events for the modified pilgrimage is attached below.
All pilgrims participating in the modified events are asked to print it out and keep it on hand for immediate reference in the field this week during Pilgrimage.