Once again we return to New York State for pilgrimage to Our Blessed Lady’s Shrine at Auriesville.
(The 28th annual Pilgrimage for Restoration took place in New York State Friday-Sunday, September 27 – October 1, 2023, and was, by unanimous acclaim, a grace-filled event. Deo gratias!)
Pilgrims will soon be able to pre-register or register. (Target date for open registration is March 25.)
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‘Something for everybody’ to participate in 2024!
]]>So, click here to download the prayer of St Nicholas of Flüe.
Spread the word, too!
Post the file to your Facebook page or blog.
Print it out, and take copies to your parish or church events, and distribute them to friends, family, parishioners, and fellow Catholics everywhere.
Bear in mind that your prayer it is also an audible & mnemonic sign that you have already begun the pilgrimage, uniting with fellow pilgrims: each preparing to converge at the Lake of the Blessed Sacrament (aka Lake George) in New France — in more recent years known as New York State.
A watch-word of pilgrimage is “nobody makes pilgrimage alone”. And since prayer & penance are the heart & soul of pilgrimage, you get a ‘transfusion’ of grace from fellow pilgrims when you unite your prayers with theirs already on The Way.
Pilgrimage Chaplains expect each pilgrim to recite with devotion every day the sublime prayer of St. Nicholas of Flüe, and in that way to commit it to memory:
My Lord and my God,
take from me whatever keeps me from Thee.My Lord and my God,
grant me whatever brings me to Thee.My Lord and my God,
take my self, to live wholly in Thee.
St. Nicholas of Flüe, 1447-1487
29th annual
Friday – Sunday
September 27-29, 2024 A.D.
“Nobody makes pilgrimage alone.”
“In unione orationum.”
“Now is the acceptable time.“
Now is the time to register to pilgrimage to Auriesville. Register on this page. It’s simple and easy.
You can also make pilgrimage from afar, from home or parish: obtain a plenary indulgence, sponsor a pilgrim (or two), request prayers or offer them — all from this page.
Listen to and learn the Songs of Pilgrimage!
]]>Dear Fellow Pilgrim,
Have you walked the Pilgrimage for Restoration without help?
Do you remember who handed water to you? Who had hot food ready for you at the end of each weary day? Who led you to each day’s bivouac?
Will you do for others what has been done – so generously – for you? Let us know here!
Many generous volunteers are needed in order to bring the pilgrimage to its holy destination. Will you join them?
Take a look at these needs.
You might –
• drive vans for the relief of weary pilgrims
• shuttle pilgrims from Shrine to step-off location
• provide first-aid and blister care throughout the ‘triduum’
• purchase, prepare, and serve food for the pilgrims
• heat and serve water for the pilgrims each morning and evening
• order, haul, and distribute water bottles along the route
• schedule, book, pick-up, drive, and return pilgrimage support vehicles
• haul pilgrims’ luggage and other pilgrimage equipment
• pitch and strike camp each day
• scout the walking routes in the months prior to pilgrimage
• lead pilgrims through every turn of the route along the way
• facilitate communications between divisions and all their teams on the road
• assist the walking column to cross streets and main roads safely
• haul and maintain the portable bathrooms, trailers, and trucks
• provide for the temporal needs of the Priests who generously serve as chaplains
• assist the chaplains to coordinate their duties on the road
• set up and beautify the holy Altar
• serve for the main Mass, and the numerous private Masses each day
And there is more, much more – including the work of the directorate’s officers who plan, coordinate, and direct all the volunteer labor necessary (across nine divisions of organization) to realize a walking pilgrimage … that is growing by leaps and bounds.
Would you consider making your next pilgrimage by serving Christ through others?
We would love to hear from you! Write to us at mail@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org.
Many of the pilgrim-volunteers are members of the Company of St. René Goupîl. This unique brigade cares for the temporal needs of the pilgrims en route, in the spirit of its heavenly Patron, the holy physician and lay-brother cruelly martyred at Auriesville.
Will you join them – in martyrdom (witness) of a less-bloody kind?
You don’t have to commit yet. Just let us know of your interest.
Our Lord Himself promises:
“And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.” Mt. x, 42
St. René Goupîl, disciple of Christ, pray for us!
Paul M. Audino, Vice-Director
Company of St. René Goupîl
Stephens City, Virginia
audinop@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org
Thomas M. Gies, Brigadier
Brigade of St. René Goupîl
Steubenville, Ohio
giest@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org
Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.
29th annual – 2024 A.D.
Friday – Sunday
27 – 29 September
“Now is the acceptable time.”
Your friends staying home this year can make pilgrimage from afar, from home or parish: obtain a plenary indulgence, sponsor a pilgrim (or two), request prayers or offer them — all from this page.
Listen to and learn the Songs of Pilgrimage!
“No one makes pilgrimage alone.”
Oremus pro invicem.
In unione orationum.
Ad majorem Dei gloriam.
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Registration for the 29th annual Pilgrimage 2024 is scheduled to open in February.
The 28th annual Pilgrimage 2023 was by all accounts a blessed event. Deo gratias!
This website is scheduled for reconstruction in 2024.
Check this blog soon for updates.
Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.
29th annual – 2024 A.D.
Friday – Sunday
27 – 29 September
“Now is the acceptable time.”
Your friends staying home this year can make pilgrimage from afar, from home or parish: obtain a plenary indulgence, sponsor a pilgrim (or two), request prayers or offer them — all from this page.
Listen to and learn the Songs of Pilgrimage!
“No one makes pilgrimage alone.”
Oremus pro invicem.
In unione orationum.
Ad majorem Dei gloriam.
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]]>See this post if you wish to register for all three days of the pilgrimage. In that case, see this post for instructions to bring you to check-in, Thursday.
For answers to all your FAQs and more instructions in detail, see this post.
If you wish to register for Sunday only, see this post. In that case, see this post for instructions.
Blessed pilgrimage!
]]>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 arriving pilgrims and organizers. But ‘walk-on’ registrations will also be accepted on site upon arrival, Sunday morning.
I that case, print, fill out, and bring this one-page registration form Sunday morning.
See this post for instructions and a printable .pdf of Sunday’s schedule.
See the two other posts also with instructions and information about Sunday’s events.
https://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/?p=6622 – instructions & driving directions
Blessed pilgrimage!
]]>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!
]]>This is not the printed edition. Servers will receive the printed edition (containing the tel. numbers of the clergy) at check-in Thursday.
Please do not distribute other versions of this schedule. (Dispose of them altogether.)
]]>This is the final definitive version. Organizers: please print it out on BLUE paper, and distribute it to fellow organizers.
Please do not distribute other versions of the schedule. (Dispose of them altogether.)
]]>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.
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