Your gift on her birthday? – Nativity of Our Blessed Lady

Nativity of Blessed Virgin MaryYou bet’cha. Today’s your lucky day.

You can thank Our Blessed and all-Immaculate Lady, St. Mary the Mother of God, whose feast – her holy Nativity – we celebrate today. September 8.

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

Three days of back-to-back discounts – thanks to The Blessed Virgin Mary and her holy Father

Today, August 14, the Vigil of the Dormition & Assumption of The Blessed Lady, begins three days of rock-bottom discounts on registration for groups & families of three or more.

Tomorrow, the Great Feast itself, is the second day of discounts.

And then we honor Our Lady’s holy Father – St. Joachim – The Grandfather of Christ, on his feast Wednesday, August 16th.

Holy Grandparents Christ Theotokos

You must register & submit the fee via PayPal on one of the days of the feast in order to receive the discount. Read More

Why pray for Priest-Chaplains?

“And seeing the multitudes, he [Christ] had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd. Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few.” Mt. ix, 36-37

by Annika DeMaster, 16 – Immaculate Heart of Mary Brigade

 

Dear fellow Pilgrims,

I would like to ask you to join me in praying for Read More

Will you pray for your chaplains & fellow-pilgrims?

In your charity, would you pray for pilgrims and especially the priest-chaplains?

To beg God to draw them to pilgrimage, and – for the chaplains – to minister to the pilgrims: including to invite & lead their own flocks on pilgrimage for restoration, on The Way to Auriesville.

If you will, then other pilgrims already praying wish you to join them!

Contact Prayer-Team Leader & veteran Read More

Download the pilgrims’ daily prayer, composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe

image_st_nicholas_of_flue_8-2013 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.

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. Read More

Download the pilgrims’ daily prayer, composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe

image_st_nicholas_of_flue_8-2013To 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

The Way of a pilgrim is unceasing prayer

Christ-Pancrator_JerusalemThe 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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