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Three days left to register at group discount
Did you know that the group discounts to register expire this Monday, August 15, at 11:59pm?
That’s right, the discount period continues in honor of Our Blessed Lady, to celebrate the Dormition & Assumption of the all-Immaculate Mother of God.
But hurry! Time is running out to save beau-coup bucks when you register with your family or friends to have the time of your life on pilgrimage. (The family discount period has been extended for a limited time only!)
Auriesville or Bust!
Shortest e-mail poll on record, w/ under 50 days to decide. Can you?
YES!, [click here] I’m interested in Pilgrimage 2011, even if I cannot travel to Auriesville.
Pilgrims honor Our Blessed Lady and her Martyrs
No, [click here] I don’t envision myself having that much fun. But maybe next year! Thanks.
“But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.” Jesus The Christ, Son of God – Mt. 5:37
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” someone who recognizes The Truth
Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.
16th annual Pilgrimage, 23-25 September 2011
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Truth even in clouds can get dry
Is floating with ideas in the clouds getting dry?
When we’re at our best, we students pursue truth for a vocation. We’re in our books and college bubble.
Why not take the time to walk with the Truth Himself, living, walking, breathing? Not confined to books or our minds, Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life, is the completion of our life as students.
How about moving beyond acknowledgement of that fact and taking steps to actually live it?
And why not take several of those steps on the Pilgrimage for Restoration 2011?
The Wanderer and Catholic Online write up the Pilgrimage
“This traditional pilgrimage to the Shrine of the North American Martyrs promises ‘Answered prayers. Tons of them.’ The 2011 Pilgrimage for Restoration is set for September 23-25.”
Read more here: Auriesville Pilgrimage for Restoration Mixes Tradition, Vitality
Good excuses, excused for good
Always wanted to make it, but just couldn’t … find the time to get away? We hear you!
What’s so different this year that makes it time now to register?
Reason #1 The Pilgrimage is shorter by a full day: Friday-Sunday, instead of Wednesday-Saturday.
Reason #2 Better yet, Read More
Christ the pilgrim? You too?
Sure. For example, Luke’s Gospel account at chpt. xxxiv, verses 31-35. Read More
In the footsteps of Martyrs
Looks inviting, eh? Imagine: real life on pilgrimage just got even better.
New dates & days in 2011 mean you too can have ‘the time of your life’ over a ‘long weekend’, Friday through Sunday, instead of a whole week away as in years past.
That makes it lots easier for collegians, home-schoolers & high-schoolers, working families and just about everybody to participate.
Now 12.5 miles shorter and following a more direct route, it’s also easier than ever for pilgrims to join up the last day, just like most pilgrims do at our model and inspiration, the Paris-to-Chartres Pentecost Pilgrimage in France.
There’s something in the works for everybody.
The 16th annual Pilgrimage for Restoration is scheduled for 23-25 September 2011.
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Exciting new development for Pilgrimage 2011
Life on pilgrimage just got better.
In response to years of requests from pilgrims young & old, the Pilgrimage to Auriesville offers an exciting new opportunity.
Mark your calendar.
The 16th annual Pilgrimage for Restoration is scheduled for 23-25 September 2011.
The new dates & days, Friday through Sunday, have the event now take place over a ‘long weekend’.
That will make it easier than ever for collegians, home-schoolers & high-schoolers, working families and just about everybody to participate.
The only change will be to the last day of pilgrimage, on the third day, this year a Sunday. Instead of turning west after lunch to the Shrine of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, the pilgrimage will head due south, directly to the Shrine at Auriesville.
The turn will make the pilgrimage 12.5 miles shorter, and bring everyone to the final shrine destination a day earlier.
The new path eliminates the customary stop-over at the Kateri Shrine. But that will hardly mean a change in veneration to one of the Pilgrimage’s most beloved patronesses. Neither will it exclude newcomers from joining up the last day of pilgrimage.
Just the opposite. It will make the Pilgrimage for Restoration much more like the model and inspiration, the Paris-to-Chartres Pentecost Pilgrimage. And Blessed Kateri will receive due and even improved veneration already in planning.
The French counterpart is 62 miles long (100 kilometers according to their website.) Most pilgrims there join the last day, Pentecost Monday, at around lunch-time.
Organizers of the annual Pilgrimage for Restoration are already planning something similar for the last day, now a Sunday.
In fact, there’s something already in the works for everybody.
And check back soon for updates.
Pilgrimage of ‘reconstruction’
Welcome to the blog of the Pilgrimage for Restoration — or what’s left of it since hackers destroyed it and untold numbers of other blogs on StBlogs’ server November 16.
Reconstruction is almost complete.
Check back soon for updates, including an exciting announcement about next year’s pilgrimage.
Meanwhile, visit the main site for general information about the annual Pilgrimage for Restoration.
An ‘old’ Pope connects with young pilgrims, heart to heart
“And they said one to the other: Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in this way, and opened to us the scriptures”, (Lk. 24:32.) and the mysteries of The Life in via?
6 November 2010 (VIS) – At 4.30 p.m. today Benedict XVI celebrated Mass for the Holy Year of Santiago de Compostela in the city’s Plaza de Obradoiro, so called because it once housed the workshops of the stonemasons who worked on the cathedral.
“[…] I would like this message to reach all young people: this core content of the Gospel shows you in particular the path by which, in renouncing a selfish and short-sighted way of thinking so common today, and taking on instead Jesus’ own way of thinking, you may attain fulfilment and become a seed of hope.
“The celebration of this Holy Year of Compostela also brings this to mind. This is what, in the secret of their heart, … so many pilgrims experience as they walk the way to Santiago de Compostela to embrace the Apostle. The fatigue of the journey, the variety of landscapes, their encounter with peoples of other nationalities – all of this opens their heart to what is the deepest and most common bond that unites us as human beings: we are in quest, we need truth and beauty, we need an experience of grace, charity, peace, forgiveness and redemption. And in the depth of each of us there resounds the presence of God and the working of the Holy Spirit”.
Taken from the Vatican Information Service’s e-posting of November 7, 2010: PV-Spain/VIS 20101107(1430)
Read more about the Pope’s pilgrimage to Spain and to the Shrine of [St. James the Apostle] Santiago de Compostela at
http://press.catholica.va/news_services/press/vis/englinde.php
One man’s report
The following personal account of Pilgrimage 2010 is especially noteworthy coming from returning veteran pilgrim Ted Amberg of Michigan. He and wife Audrey are also distinguished co-builders of the pilgrimage organization in its early years.
[Ted’s account appears here edited, since he had not written it with publication in mind. Supposing, according to the adage, that “it is easier to obtain forgiveness than pardon”, the editor hereby begs the author’s pardon in anticipation of the need!]
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Greetings, Pilgrimage Director!
I almost feel remiss in not writing sooner after the pilgrimage. Things have returned to their usual hectic around here. But let me try to describe my experiences during this, the 15th annual Pilgrimage for Restoration.
As I had written to you in the summer, we would try to make it – well, thanks be to God, we did, after about a 2000 mile car trip east, south and then north to the Lake of the Blessed Sacrament [Lake George, NY].
Audrey and I are very glad we did. Read More