“Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, for their works follow them.” (Rev. xiv:13)
Pilgrims are asked to pray, in their charity, for Read More
Category: Announcements – for websites, blogs & bulletins
Info useful to webmasters, bloggers & managers of the parish bulletin.
Did you miss the extended discount period for registration?
Well, then today’s your lucky day.
You can thank Our Blessed and all-Pure Lady, St. Mary the Mother of Christ-God, whose feast – her holy Visitation – we (including Ss. Elizabeth & John the Forerunner, dancing for joy in utero) celebrate July 2.
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, Read More
Pilgrimage: The Holy Journey
Perhaps you or someone you know has asked, “What is a pilgrimage? Why do we make pilgrimage?”
In answer to these questions, Brother Andre Marie recorded an episode of ReConquest entitled “Pilgrimage: The Holy Journey.”
The three-part episode features an interview with the Pilgrimage for Restoration’s very own director Gregory Lloyd.
As you pray for the grace to make pilgrimage this fall, take a moment to listen to the interview here
Download the pilgrims’ daily prayer, composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe
To make it easier to remember and recite the short prayer each day, every pilgrim might wish 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.
Bear in mind that praying it is an audible & mnemonic sign that you have already begun the pilgrimage, uniting with fellow pilgrims: each preparing to converge Read More
Sample bulletin & web-announcements 2016
PASTORS, now you can ‘get rid of your parishioners’ the way you’ve always dreamt. Send them packing … on a traditional, walking pilgrimage.
We’ve made it easy for you to do so. Read More
Ordinary organization chart, ‘extraordinary’ organization
With 20 blessed years of pilgrimage fresh in memory, your fellow-pilgrims & organizers are already planning improvements for the next 20 years.
Click here to view a ‘schematic’ reflecting the first stage of re-organization (in the directorate) of the 21st annual Pilgrimage for Restoration.
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Question #3 – “Where can a pilgrim stay Thursday night, to be ready for step-off early Friday morning?”
Once you’ve registered, begun to pray with fellow pilgrims, and requested the shuttle, it’s time to make plans to Read More
Keep your eyes peeled for special rock-bottom discounts on the registration fee for individuals, groups & families.Ask Our Lady of Mount Carmel to leave something sweet in your pocket …
The discount period on registration fees for groups & families expired June 1. But that doesn’t mean you or your friends and family are stuck.
Thanks to Our Blessed Lady’s charity commemorated on her feast of Mount Carmel, July 16, you and your friends & family may register TODAY and tomorrow at the discounted rate.
But hurry. The ‘grace period’ ends Read More
The Way of a pilgrim is unceasing prayer
The Christian’s life on pilgrimage does not end until death. And even then, there is an eternity of discovery & delight to expect in the presence of the Supremely Good & Almighty God.
To keep us on The Way, the Pilgrimage Chaplains ask pilgrims to recite with devotion each day the sublime, three-line prayer of St. Nicholas of Flüe, and in that way to commit it to memory:
My Lord and my God,
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The refreshing essay about the joy that comes from suffering should make every pilgrim smile, not least The Risen Christ, Conqueror of Death by His Own Death.
Honor.Question #3 – “Where can a pilgrim stay Thursday night, to be ready for step-off early Friday morning?”
Once you’ve registered, begun to pray with fellow pilgrims, and requested the shuttle, it’s time to make plans to Read More