Life on pilgrimage just got better.<\/p>\n
In response to years of requests from pilgrims young & old, the Pilgrimage to Auriesville offers an exciting new opportunity.<\/p>\n
Mark your calendar.<\/p>\n
The 16th annual Pilgrimage for Restoration<\/a><\/em> is scheduled for 23-25 September 2011.<\/p>\n The new dates & days, Friday through Sunday, have the event now take place over a ‘long weekend’.<\/p>\n That will make it easier than ever for collegians, home-schoolers & high-schoolers, working families and just about everybody<\/a> to participate.<\/p>\n The only change will be to the last day of pilgrimage, on the third day, this year a Sunday.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n The turn will make the pilgrimage 12.5 miles shorter, and bring everyone to the final shrine destination a day earlier.<\/p>\n The new path eliminates the customary stop-over at the Kateri Shrine.\u00a0 But that will hardly mean a change in veneration to one of the Pilgrimage’s most beloved patronesses.\u00a0 Neither will it exclude newcomers from joining up the last day of pilgrimage.<\/p>\n Just the opposite.\u00a0\u00a0 It will make the Pilgrimage for Restoration<\/em> much more like the model and inspiration, the Paris-to-Chartres Pentecost Pilgrimage<\/a><\/i>.\u00a0 And Blessed Kateri will receive due and even improved veneration already in planning.<\/p>\n The French counterpart is 62 miles long (100 kilometers according to their website<\/a>.)\u00a0 Most pilgrims there join the last day, Pentecost Monday, at around lunch-time.<\/p>\n