{"id":6042,"date":"2016-07-25T00:02:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T04:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2018-07-25T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:56:56","slug":"our-lords-grandmother-has-a-present-for-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/?p=6042","title":{"rendered":"Our Lord&#8217;s Grandmother has a present for you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/icon_st_anne.jpg\" alt=\"saint anne icon theotokos\" width=\"450\" \/>And it includes cash.<\/p>\n<p>You can thank St. Anne, Grandmother of Christ, whose feast we celebrate today.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, you don&#8217;t have to miss the pilgrimage because you were &#8216;a day late and a few dollars short&#8217; (again?) this year.<\/p>\n<p>Besides &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/national-coalition.org\/w\/pilgrimage-without-travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alms for palms<\/a>&#8216; to sponsor you, the organizers&#8217; policy is that<!--more--> no one is turned away from pilgrimage for want of the <a title=\"Register for pilgrimage at a discount today!\" href=\"http:\/\/national-coalition.org\/pilgrim\/registration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">registration<\/a> fee.<\/p>\n<p>Not only today, but this year on special days, &#8216;plain vanilla&#8217; pilgrims, families and groups can <a title=\"Register for pilgrimage at a discount today!\" href=\"http:\/\/national-coalition.org\/pilgrim\/registration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">avail of the discounts<\/a> which expired June 1.<\/p>\n<p>Which special days?<\/p>\n<p>Any day, on the traditional (Western) calendar, before step-off, on which a feast of Our Blessed Lady occurs &#8212; including her Parents, Ss. Anne &amp; Joachim; or a day on which a saint of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) or a native American saint is commemorated.<\/p>\n<p>Which dates are they? They are an even dozen before September 20.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary &#8211; July 2<br \/>\nOur Lady of Mount Carmel &#8211; July 16<br \/>\nSt. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary &#8211; July 26<br \/>\nSt. Ignatius of Loyola &#8211; July 31<br \/>\nVigil of the Dormition &amp; Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary &#8211; August 14<br \/>\nFeast of the Dormition &amp; Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary &#8211; August 15<br \/>\nSt. Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary &#8211; August 16<br \/>\nFeast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary &#8211; August 26<br \/>\nNativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary &#8211; September 8<br \/>\nSt. Peter Claver, SJ &#8211; September 9<br \/>\nFeast of the Most Holy Name of Mary &#8211; September 12<br \/>\nFeast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary &#8211; September 15<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Is there anything else one has to do besides register on those days?<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, the discounted fee must be <a title=\"Pay the registration fee online.\" href=\"http:\/\/national-coalition.org\/w\/thank-you-for-registering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paid online<\/a>, via PayPal. (One does NOT need a PayPal account to use the service; just a valid credit card.)<\/p>\n<p>Also, the registrant has to <b><i>ask<\/i><\/b> for the discount in writing by including a note\/request in the &#8220;description&#8221; field when <a title=\"Pay the registration fee online.\" href=\"http:\/\/national-coalition.org\/w\/thank-you-for-registering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paying online<\/a> using PayPal, or by <a href=\"mailto:director@national-coalition.org?subject=Request to avail of discount thanks to and in honor of St. Anne, Mother of The Theotokos - Pilgrimage 2016\">e-mailing the Director<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The note requesting the discount must read: &#8220;Humble request for discounted fee in honor of [name of saint &#8212; <b>and, in the case of Our Blessed Lady, her holy name &#8211; no less than &#8220;St. Mary&#8221; &#8211; &amp; the title of the feast<\/b>]&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally, the payment <i>must also be postmarked on the day of the feast<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it includes cash. You can thank St. Anne, Grandmother of Christ, whose feast we celebrate today. In other words, you don&#8217;t have to miss the pilgrimage because you were &#8216;a day late and a few dollars short&#8217; (again?) this year. Besides &#8216;alms for palms&#8216; to sponsor you, the organizers&#8217; policy is that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,7,15,16,17,24,31,32,36,37,38,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brigadiers-their-officers","category-frequently-asked-questions","category-messages-to-pilgrims","category-messages-to-students","category-messages-to-the-sacred-clergy","category-participate-from-afar","category-prayer-requests","category-pre-register","category-register-for-pilgrimage","category-registrants-families","category-registrants-individual-groups","category-registrants-sacred-clergy","category-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6043,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions\/6043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}