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.
Read the essay on two pages from the Winter 2015 edition of Read More
Category: spirituality
Who was Jean de la Lande?
Discover, or rediscover, this admirable sainted layman of New France in this fine account.
Now in its 19th year, the Pilgrimage for Restoration has since its beginning drawn on the extraordinary benefits of the ancient Roman Liturgy: to nourish ordinary spirits with an extraordinary spirituality.
PASTORS, now you can ‘get rid of your parishioners’ the way you’ve always dreamt. Send them packing … on a traditional, walking pilgrimage.
The Souls’ Journey: a pilgrim’s story, everyone’s adventure
What is pilgrimage all about?
Read about it. Then get real. Join the journey.
Click on the link to read The Souls’ Journey — an adventure of the spirit and of a lifetime.
Yours, too?
(Morning view from Mass site, eastward,
to the Lake of the Blessed Sacrament — aka “Lake George”.)
Download the pilgrims’ daily prayer, composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe
To make it easier to (remember and to) 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.
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 at the Lake of Read More
When your Mother asks you to do a favor
Our Blessed Mother & Theotokos has asked that her faithful children do reparation for the sins (mine, yours, ours and ‘theirs’) which are committed against Her Immaculate Heart.
She’s been so good to you — even when you are not paying attention. Or did you forget she’s been watching over and caring for you, just like a good mother, all these years. And not only when you were little babe in your (other) Mother’s arms.
What kind of child are you? Will you now console her in turn, when she is sorrowful?
(You don’t even have to travel to make pilgrimage in reparation. Find out how easy it is. Click here.) Read More
Few can.
Now in its 18th year, the Pilgrimage for Restoration has since its beginning drawn on the extraordinary benefits of the ancient Roman Liturgy: to nourish ordinary spirits with an extraordinary spirituality. Calling all Romans … of the East, too
Christus resurrexit! Xristos anesti! Khrystos voskres!
For years the several — and not numerically insubstantial — pilgrim-veterans of the Eastern Catholic churches have talked about forming an Eastern brigade, in order to make the Pilgrimage for Restoration in the manner of Eastern Romans.
Are you an Eastern Christian with that kind of aspiration? Or do you know an Eastern Christian to invite to join in the fun? Read More
Auriesville Pilgrimage in the news again
Click here to read a news report about the Pilgrimage on catholicism.org.
Brigade banners at final Mass, Pilgrimage 2010
To be a part of this exciting spiritual event, pre-register or register today.
Food for more than mere thought
Indeed, the Living Bread Come Down from Heaven is thoroughly transubstantial: transforming those who partake of Him, healing body and, foremost, all the powers of soul: intellect, will, memory — not merely thoughts.
What is the ‘spiritual DNA’ of the pilgrim for restoration? Read More
A pilgrimage of vocations
Both Priests flanking His Excellency, Bishop Finn of Kansas City – St. Joseph, have made the Pilgrimage for Restoration as clerics. Two of the young Nuns made the Pilgrimage before taking the Veil.
To which state in the pilgrimage of life is God calling you? (Or your children? Or grandchildren?)
How to persevere, amidst so many trials, in the state to which God has already called you?
Why not make pilgrimage this autumn, and ask God yourself.
You can also ask His sacred Priests and other consecrated souls to teach you the art of listening … and of restoring your soul, by grace.
Then listen during the long periods of silence along the way. And rest.
To ask the pilgrims to pray for you by name, or to sponsor a pilgrim, click here.
Pilgrimage for Restoration, 2011 September 23 – 25. Come to restore. The rest will come.