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\nOne word answers typically leave much to be desired, but this one pretty much sums up the reason for registering.<\/p>\n
\nOne word answers typically leave much to be desired, but this one pretty much sums up the reason for registering.<\/p>\n
Registering is … decisive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Without registering, we have found that all the words spoken about pilgrimage don’t even make for a short, jumbled dictionary.<\/p>\n Nothing, positively nada<\/em>, happens until one registers.<\/p>\n You know the old saying:<\/p>\n “A man convinced against his will, is a man who remains unconvinced still.”<\/p>\n Registering, we have found, convinces a man to be a pilgrim.<\/p>\n Many a first-time caller dips slowly into the deep, watery ideas of pilgrimage to test some material preparation for that … inevitably elusive day.<\/p>\n But registering, we have found again and again affirmed, is actually a first step of pilgrimage. It is not a step toward material readiness, however much that plays a r\u00f4<\/span>le, especially later, in the conversion one experiences on the road.<\/p>\n It’s a question of the spirit, and readiness of, as it were,\u00a0 ‘mind over matter’.<\/p>\n (After all, what a ‘waste of time, effort and money’ pilgrimage can be … indeed, like, all good things intended less for the body as it is more for the soul<\/em>.)<\/p>\n It’s a matter of a man or woman giving his or her word. As if to say, “in the beginning was the Word”, and, “in this beginning also is the word” …<\/p>\n Registering is not so much a question of ‘solvency’ (finances, time, vacation from work) as it is of ‘resolve’. It’s a matter of answering, resolutely, questions like:<\/p>\n “How serious am I about saving my soul? “But let your speech be yes, yes: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.” Mt.v:37<\/p>\n Register<\/a> today. Yes?<\/p>\n Or, if your still not ready, or convinced, but are resolved to make a final decision later, then PRE-register<\/strong> today. No?<\/p>\n Can’t make it all three days? ‘Test the waters’. Join fellow pilgrims the last day, for Sunday’s events<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pilgrimage for Restoration<\/strong> 19th Annual Pilgrimage for Restoration<\/em><\/p>\n Friday – Sunday “Now is the acceptable time.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n Jump-start your plans, even if you are not sure you can make it to Auriesville. PRE-register. It’s simple, easy & there are no strings attached: you are left free to decide later whether you can make it or not.<\/p>\n You can also make pilgrimage from afar<\/a><\/b>, from home or parish: obtain a plenary indulgence, sponsor a pilgrim (or two), request prayers or offer them — all from this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nShall I prove to myself and to my God that I am ‘dead serious’ … by showing myself to be ‘dead to the world’?
\nHow seriously do I follow the lead of holy Mother Church to retreat from the world at least once per year, for the sake of my soul’s health? …
\nShall I really follow Christ into the Christian desert … of my heart?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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\nSeptember 19-21, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n