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Something for everyone – 2024

Schedule in overview

Friday-Sunday, 27 – 29 September

Pilgrimage 2024 offers multiple days & ways to make it easier to participate than ever.

There’s something for just about everybody. Take your pick.

Traditional Roman liturgy forma extraordinaria, personal spiritual guidance, teaching, confessions, fellowship – every day.

1.   Sunday-only, September 29

    Register now for Sunday only!

    Similar to the annual Pentecost Pilgrimage to Chartres in France, many pilgrims join the Auriesville pilgrimage on the last day, Sunday, to walk the last leg of the spiritual journey with the column of pilgrims on the road since Friday.

    Click here for the itinerary, options, and instructions for Sunday.

    Extraordinary Holy Mass crowns the Pilgrimage in the Coliseum church of the Martyrs of New France at 3:15 P.M. Sunday.

    Pilgrims wear hats, sturdy walking shoes and modest clothing, remembering they attend Holy Mass after; no shorts.

    Pilgrims bring bottled water, make provisions for inclement weather and carry holy images, banners & flags – but no signs as in demonstration.

2.   Friday – Sunday, 27-29 September

    Register now for more than one day!

    • Walk three days through the Adirondacks, 63 miles, from the Lake of the Blessed Sacrament (aka Lake George, NY) to the Shrine of Our Lady’s Martyrs, at Auriesville.

      •  
      Transportation & TLC are provided throughout for weary pilgrims.

    Three to five miles walking daily for two weeks prior to the event is recommended for conditioning.

    Pilgrims may walk three hours, three miles or three days thanks to the charity of volunteers who shadow the walking-column in vans.

    Camp two nights and join up with the your family, friends & fellow pilgrims arriving Sunday for continuation to Auriesville.

    • Sometimes late-comers join pilgrims already at camp Friday or Saturday evening.   If so, they have to make their own travel arrangements, and also register, as every pilgrim must.

     
    Traditional Roman liturgy forma extraordinaria, personal spiritual guidance, confessions, fellowship — every day.

3.   Friday – Sunday, 27-29 September   Modified Pilgrimage

    Register now for the Modified Pilgrimage!

    Children and their parents – seniors, too – may join for more than one day in a modified pilgrimage: praying, singing, playing, learning catechism – in camp. They also (may) walk short distances with pilgrims in the main column each morning, afternoon, and evening.

4.   Pilgrimage from afar

    Can’t travel to make pilgrimage?

    Click here to request prayers, offer prayers, or to sponsor a pilgrim!

    Pilgrims will remember you in prayer en route, and you can pray for them while making pilgrimage from home.

    Click here to learn how to obtain a plenary indulgence from your home.

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message for pilgrim-registrants from the Director, Pilgrimage 2024

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TO: Pilgrim-registrants – Pilgrimage 2024 A.D.

FROM: Greg Lloyd, Director – Pilgrimage for Restoration

 

A pilgrim is one who prays on The Way to the destination of his prayers.

After registering, what are the first steps of pilgrimage to prepare well for & make the best of the spiritual journey?

  1.   First & foremost, our Chaplains ask each pilgrim & brigade to offer daily the three-line prayer composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe. Find this easy-to-memorize prayer on this page of the Pilgrimage blog.

    2.  

  2.   To keep abreast of developments and messages to pilgrims, and for helpful practical tips — about things like packing, transportation, camping/lodgings, gear, food, etc. — subscribe to the Pilgrimage blog. http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/

    3.  

  3.   You can also join the Pilgrimage’s Facebook group or the FB page.

    4.  

  4.   Looking for a ride to pilgrimage? Form a car-pool — or make other plans with fellow-pilgrims for brigade life, camps, you name it.   After you request the shuttle, to check-in, you can then also ask for help to arrange a ride from home, to car-pool to Auriesville.

    5.  

  5.   Would you like your family to learn or practice some of the many songs sung on pilgrimage? Click here to request a CD or cassette of the Pilgrimage’s very own Songs of Pilgrimage or the Pilgrims’ Handbook of songs & prayers. Or paste the URL into your browser. http://national-coalition.org/w/songs-of-pilgrimage-order-form

Note: The documentary video is again out of stock this season.

Listening while you walk (to get your ‘souls’ in shape) or work around the house is a great way to prepare the days of grace.

Blessed pilgrimage!

G. P. Lloyd, M.A. Phil.
Director of Pilgrimage
Fullerton, Pennsylvania
484/240-5797
mail@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

      P.S. Please notify the Pilgrimage Registrar of any change to your planned participation.

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

www.pilgrimage-for-restoration.org
http://pilgrimage-for-restoration/blog/

http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com

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message for pilgrim-registrants about shuttle service, car-pools, and transportation all 3 days of Pilgrimage 2024

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TO: Pilgrim-registrants, Pilgrimage 2024 A.D.

FROM: Dennis P. Mitchell, R.O. – Transportation-Team
mitchelld@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org – Co. of St. René Goupîl

After completing registration, be sure also to submit the shuttle request, to coordinate with organizers your arrival at the pilgrimage starting point Thursday, 26 September, and in order to guarantee retrieval of your vehicle after the final Mass Sunday, October 1.

Even if you or the group you are traveling with intend to keep your vehicle throughout the pilgrimage, we ask you to submit the form, to tell us that.

Request the shuttle also if you are arriving in the region via public transportation (PT – air, bus, rail) Thursday, Sept. 26 and/or wish to return Sunday, after pilgrimage, to a PT terminal in the region.

NOTE: If you positively must arrive at the other nearby airport — i.e., at Schenectady County, instead of Albany International — then please notify me immediately via e-mail to determine whether I can help to arrange a ride for you from that terminal to the step-off on Thursday, Sept. 26. Same goes for your departure Sunday. (I can make no guarantees, but we can try. The sooner you notify me, the better — esp. for you.)

In any event, please don’t delay. The sooner my colleagues & I know your plans, the sooner your itinerary can be fixed and together we can all help fellow pilgrims looking for rides to the region from ‘all over the map’.

Please also visit the online pilgrims’ forum to interact with fellow pilgrims, including to help those looking to car-pool to the region, and back home.

Lots of pilgrims are looking for rides to pilgrimage. Information you offer to others on Facebook, and by submitting the shuttle request, can be used to help arrange car-pools.

Please contact me if you have any questions about transportation.

A blessed pilgrimage!

Dennis P. Mitchell
Responsible Officer (R.O.), Transportation-Team
II. Dept. for Logistics – Company of St. René Goupîl
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
610/390-9507 mobile
mitchelld@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

www.national-coalition.org/w/transportation-request-form/
http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/
http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com/
www.facebook.com/groups/pilgrimage.for.restoration/
www.facebook.com/PilgrimageForRestoration/

NCCL – 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119 USA

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message for pilgrim-registrants from the Chief of Brigadiers, Pilgrimage 2024

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TO: Pilgrim-registrants – Pilgrimage 2024 A.D.

FROM: Reuben J. DeMaster – Vice-Director for Brigade Life

 

Congratulations on taking a first step of pilgrimage, this year back again to the Adirondacks and Auriesville.

The second step is much like every other step of pilgrimage: to pray with the other pilgrim-registrants also preparing to honor Our Blessed Lady at her shrine. Indeed, prayer & penance is the beginning and end — the very reason — of the pilgrimage. The way of a pilgrim is the habit of unceasing prayer. I. Thessalonians v, 17

That’s why the Pilgrimage Chaplains ask each pilgrim to pray daily, beginning today, the three-line prayer composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe. Find it on this page of the Pilgrimage blog.

Find the pilgrims’ three-line prayer on the blog at http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/?p=2373

“He who sings well, prays twice.” (Attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo.) Why not multiply your praying power by learning or practicing some of the many songs sung on pilgrimage?

Click here to request your own copy of the Songs of Pilgrimage or the Pilgrims’ Handbook of prayers. Or paste the URL into your browser. http://national-coalition.org/songs-of-pilgrimage-order-form

Listening while you walk (to get your ‘souls’ in shape) or while putzing around the house is a great way to prepare the days of grace.

Find the Pilgrimage media here. Request your own copy of the Songs of Pilgrimage CD or the Pilgrims’ Handbook of prayers.

NOTE: the DVD video documentary is still out of stock, again, this season.

    Please let me hear from you if you await your brigade assignment, or if you have any questions about brigade-life. Please ask your fellow-brigadesmen or women to do the same. Click here to e-mail me.

Learn about brigade life on this page.

Godspeed!

Reuben J. DeMaster
Vice-Director for Brigade Life
New Tripoli, Pennsylvania
demasterr@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

www.pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/modified-pilgrimage/
http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/
http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com/
www.facebook.com/groups/pilgrimage.for.restoration/
www.facebook.com/PilgrimageForRestoration/

NCCL – 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119 USA

NOTE WELL

Veterans know there is never a better time than now to commence preparations. And there never seems to be enough time, no matter how long in advance one registers.

Please therefore contact your brigadier as soon as possible to get started. If you don’t know or cannot reach him or her, drop me an e-mail.

Some of the brigades already have blogs. If yours doesn’t, please encourage your brigadier to start one. You, he or she can contact me for ideas.

Brigade of St. Joan of Arc – https://stjoanofarcbrigade.wordpress.com/
Brigade of St. Isaac Jogues – http://stisaacjoguesbrigade.wordpress.com
Brigade of St. Michael the Archangel – https://stmichaelbrigade.wordpress.com
Company of St. René Goupil – https://companyofsaintrenegoupil.wordpress.com/

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steps after completing registration – 2024

IN COMMEMORATION OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA!

TO: Registrants and fellow pilgrims in The Lord

FROM: Greg Lloyd, Director – Pilgrimage for Restoration

Thank you for having submitted the fee & the release of liability or/and the parental authorization of minor children.

Congratulations for completing registration for the 28th annual Pilgrimage for Restoration, Friday-Sunday, 29 September – October 1, 2023 A.D.

Step-off this may seem far off, but it always comes sooner than you think, and there is rarely enough time to prepare. In fact, pilgrimage has already begun, certainly for those praying, and “now is the acceptable time” to prepare with fellow pilgrims.

Please click on the following hyperlinks for step-by-step guidance to prepare, in numeric order, for the days of pilgrimage.

  1. The Chaplain asks each pilgrim and brigade to offer daily the three-line prayer composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe. Download it from this page of the Pilgrimage blog.

    2. &nspb

  2. Click here to read a very important & urgent message from Dennis, Mitchell, the pilgrim-organizer charged with organizing shuttle service, car-pools, and transportation all three days of pilgrimage.

    3. &nspb

  3. Vice-Director of Brigade Life Reuben DeMaster has an important message found here for you and every brigadesman and woman.

    4. &nspb

  4. Next, click here for an useful message from the Pilgrimage Director, in order to keep yourself up-to-date of developments.

    5. &nspb

  5. To read about conducting oneself modestly-dressed on pilgrimage, click here.

Click here to read answers to frequently asked questions – FAQs — in general.

Click here for answers to questions specifically about preparing for departure and step-off.

Keep this page bookmarked, since it can be accessed only with a hyperlink/URL supplied to a pilgrim after completing registration.

May God grant us the grace of making pilgrimage together worthily.

G. Lloyd, M.A. Phil.
Pilgrimage Director
Fullerton, Pennsylvania
mail@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org
484-240-5797

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will c

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Who must submit the ‘release of liability’ and ‘parental authorization of children’, and why?

As a required condition to participate in the pilgrimage, the following persons must submit the subject form:

    • 1. Every parent who is not making pilgrimage, but who has registered his/her own minor-child(ren), and thus who must give parental authorization for the minor-child(ren).

      • 2. Every adult-pilgrim who has registered must also submit the form in order to grant release of liability for himself, and to communicate (if applicable) the parental authorization for any minor whom the same adult-pilgrim has registered.

        Note: One’s spouse who has registered may be included on the same form.

        • To submit parental authorization for minors accompanying you from more than one family, you must fill out a separate form for each family.

      The form takes about 2 minutes to complete – a minute or two longer, if also authorizing one or more minors.

      Parents and registrant-pilgrims must submit the form in advance esp. because there is not sufficient time or opportunity at check-in to have pilgrims submit the form once on site.

      Toggle between tabs to return to the form, or click here to open a new form.

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message for pilgrim-registrants from the Director, Pilgrimage 2022

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TO: Pilgrim-registrants – Pilgrimage 2022

FROM: Greg Lloyd, Director – Pilgrimage for Restoration

 

A pilgrim is one who prays on The Way to the destination of his prayers.

After registering, what are the first steps of pilgrimage to prepare well for & make the best of the spiritual journey?

  1.   First & foremost, our Chaplains ask each pilgrim & brigade to offer daily the three-line prayer composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe. Find this easy-to-memorize prayer on this page of the Pilgrimage blog.

    2.  

  2.   To keep abreast of developments and messages to pilgrims, and for helpful practical tips — about things like packing, transportation, camping/lodgings, gear, food, etc. — subscribe to the Pilgrimage blog. http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/

    3.  

  3.   You can also join the Pilgrimage’s Facebook group or the FB page.

    4.  

  4.   Looking for a ride to pilgrimage? Get in on the pilgrims’ forum, and form a car-pool — or make other plans with fellow-pilgrims for brigade life, camps, you name it.   After you request the shuttle, to check-in, you can then also ask for help to arrange a ride from home, to car-pool to Allentown.

    5.  

  5.   Would you like your family to learn or practice some of the many songs sung on pilgrimage? Click here to request a CD or cassette of the Pilgrimage’s very own Songs of Pilgrimage or the Pilgrims’ Handbook of songs & prayers. Or paste the URL into your browser. http://national-coalition.org/w/songs-of-pilgrimage-order-form

Note: The documentary video is out of stock this season.

Listening while you walk (to get your ‘souls’ in shape) or work around the house is a great way to prepare the days of grace.

Blessed pilgrimage!

G. P. Lloyd, M.A. Phil.
Director of Pilgrimage
Fullerton, Pennsylvania
610/435-2634
mail@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

      P.S. Please notify the Pilgrimage Registrar of any change to your planned participation.

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

www.pilgrimage-for-restoration.org
http://pilgrimage-for-restoration/blog/

http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com

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steps after completing registration – 2022

IN COMMEMORATION OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA!

TO: Registrants and fellow pilgrims in The Lord

FROM: Greg Lloyd, Director – Pilgrimage for Restoration

Thank you for having submitted the fee & the release of liability or/and the parental authorization of minor children.

Congratulations for completing registration for the 27th annual Pilgrimage for Restoration, Friday-Sunday, 23-25 September 2022.

Step-off this may seem far off, but it always comes sooner than you think, and there is rarely enough time to prepare. In fact, pilgrimage has already begun, certainly for those praying, and “now is the acceptable time” to prepare with fellow pilgrims.

Please click on the following hyperlinks for step-by-step guidance to prepare, in numeric order, for the days of pilgrimage.

  1. The Chaplain asks each pilgrim and brigade to offer daily the three-line prayer composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe. Download it from this page of the Pilgrimage blog.

    2. &nspb

  2. Click here to read a very important & urgent message from Dennis, Mitchell, the Vice-Director charged with organizing shuttle service, car-pools, and transportation all three days of pilgrimage.

    3. &nspb

  3. Chief of Brigadiers Reuben DeMaster has an important message found here for you and every brigadesman and woman.

    4. &nspb

  4. Next, click here for an useful message from the Pilgrimage Director, in order to keep yourself up-to-date of developments.

    5. &nspb

  5. To read about conducting oneself modestly-dressed on pilgrimage, click here.

Click here to read answers to frequently asked questions – FAQs — in general.

Click here for answers to questions specifically about preparing for departure and step-off.

Keep this page bookmarked, since it can be accessed only with a hyperlink/URL supplied to a pilgrim after completing registration.

May God grant us the grace of making pilgrimage together worthily.

G. Lloyd, M.A. Phil.
Pilgrimage Director
Fullerton, Pennsylvania
mail@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org
610/435-2634

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will c

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message for pilgrim-registrants from the Chief of Brigadiers, Pilgrimage 2022

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TO: Pilgrim-registrants – Pilgrimage 2022

FROM: Reuben J. DeMaster – Chief of Brigadiers

 

Congratulations on taking a first step of pilgrimage , this year back to the Adirondacks and Auriesville — after having re-located two years straight to central-eastern Pennsylvania on account of continued covidiocy in New York State.

The second step is much like every other step of pilgrimage: to pray with the other pilgrim-registrants also preparing to honor Our Blessed Lady at her shrine. Indeed, prayer & penance is the beginning and end — the very reason — of the pilgrimage. The way of a pilgrim is the habit of unceasing prayer. I. Thessalonians v, 17

That’s why the Pilgrimage Chaplains ask each pilgrim to pray daily, beginning today, the three-line prayer composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe. Find it on this page of the Pilgrimage blog.

Find the pilgrims’ three-line prayer on the blog at http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/?p=2373

“He who sings well, prays twice.” (Attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo.) Why not multiply your praying power by learning or practicing some of the many songs sung on pilgrimage?

Click here to request your own copy of the Songs of Pilgrimage or the Pilgrims’ Handbook of prayers. Or paste the URL into your browser. http://national-coalition.org/w/songs-of-pilgrimage-order-form

Listening while you walk (to get your ‘souls’ in shape) or while putzing around the house is a great way to prepare the days of grace.

Find the Pilgrimage media here. Request your own copy of the Songs of Pilgrimage CD or the Pilgrims’ Handbook of prayers.

NOTE: the DVD video documentary is out of stock this season.

    Please let me hear from you if you await your brigade assignment, or if you have any questions about brigade-life. Please ask your fellow-brigadesmen or women to do the same. Click here to e-mail me.

Learn about brigade life on this page.

Godspeed!

Reuben J. DeMaster
Chief of Brigadiers
New Tripoli, Pennsylvania
demasterr@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

www.pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/modified-pilgrimage/
http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/
http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com/
www.facebook.com/groups/pilgrimage.for.restoration/
www.facebook.com/PilgrimageForRestoration/

NCCL – 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119 USA

NOTE WELL

Veterans know there is never a better time than now to commence preparations. And there never seems to be enough time, no matter how long in advance one registers.

Please therefore contact your brigadier as soon as possible to get started. If you don’t know or cannot reach him or her, drop me an e-mail.

Some of the brigades already have blogs. If yours doesn’t, please encourage your brigadier to start one. You, he or she can contact me for ideas.

Brigade of St. Joan of Arc – https://stjoanofarcbrigade.wordpress.com/
Brigade of St. Isaac Jogues – http://stisaacjoguesbrigade.wordpress.com
Brigade of St. Michael the Archangel – https://stmichaelbrigade.wordpress.com
Company of St. René Goupil – https://companyofsaintrenegoupil.wordpress.com/

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message for pilgrim-registrants about shuttle service, car-pools, and transportation all 3 days of Pilgrimage 2022

Promemoria

TO: Pilgrim-registrants, Pilgrimage 2022 A.D.

FROM: Dennis P. Mitchell, R.O. – Transportation-Team
mitchelld@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org – Co. of St. René Goupîl

After completing registration, be sure also to submit the transportation form, to coordinate with organizers your arrival at the pilgrimage starting point Thursday, 22 September, and in order to guarantee retrieval of your vehicle after the final Mass Sunday, September 25.

Even if you or the group you are traveling with intend to keep your vehicle throughout the pilgrimage, we ask you to submit the form, to tell us that.

Request the shuttle also if you are arriving in the region via public transportation (PT – air, bus, rail) Thursday, Sept. 22 and/or wish to return Sunday, after pilgrimage, to a PT terminal in the region.

NOTE: If you positively must arrive at an airport besides Albany — i.e., at Schenectady, then please notify me immediately via e-mail to determine whether I can help to arrange a ride for you from that terminal to the step-off on Thursday, Sept. 23. Same goes for your departure Sunday. (I can make no guarantees, but we can try. The sooner you notify me, the better — for you.)

Please don’t delay. The sooner my colleagues & I know your plans, the sooner your itinerary can be fixed and together we can all help fellow pilgrims looking for rides to the region from ‘all over the map’.

Please also visit the online pilgrims’ forum to interact with fellow pilgrims, including to help those looking to car-pool to the starting-point, and back home.

Lots of pilgrims are looking for rides to step-off. Information you offer to others in the forum, and by submitting the transportation form, can be used to help arrange car-pools.

Please contact me if you have any questions about transportation.

A blessed pilgrimage!

Dennis P. Mitchell
Responsible Officer (R.O.), Transportation-Team
II. Dept. for Logistics – Company of St. René Goupîl
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
610/390-9507 mobile
mitchelld@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

www.national-coalition.org/w/transportation-request-form/
http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/
http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com/
www.facebook.com/groups/pilgrimage.for.restoration/
www.facebook.com/PilgrimageForRestoration/

NCCL – 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119 USA

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steps after completing registration – 2021

IN COMMEMORATION OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA!

TO: Registrants and fellow pilgrims in The Lord

FROM: Greg Lloyd, Director – Pilgrimage for Restoration

Thank you for having submitted the fee & the release of liability or/and the parental authorization of minor children.

Congratulations for completing registration for the 26th annual Pilgrimage for Restoration, Friday-Sunday, 24-26 September 2021.

Step-off this month may seem far off, but it always comes sooner than you think, and there is rarely enough time to prepare. In fact, pilgrimage has already begun, certainly for those praying, and now is the acceptable time to prepare with fellow pilgrims.

Please click on the following hyperlinks for step-by-step guidance to prepare, in numeric order, for the days of pilgrimage.

  1. The Chaplain asks each pilgrim and brigade to offer daily the three-line prayer composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe. Download it from this page of the Pilgrimage blog.
  2. Click here to read a very important & urgent message from Dennis, Mitchell, the Vice-Director charged with organizing shuttle service, car-pools, and transportation all three days of pilgrimage.
  3. Chief of Brigadiers Reuben DeMaster has an important message found here for you and every brigadesman and woman.
  4. Next, click here for an useful message from the Pilgrimage Director, in order to keep yourself up-to-date of developments.
  5. To read about conducting oneself modestly-dressed on pilgrimage, click here.

Click here to read answers to frequently asked questions – FAQs — in general.

Click here for answers to questions specifically about preparing for departure and step-off.

Keep this page bookmarked, since it can be accessed only with a hyperlink/URL supplied to a pilgrim after completing registration.

God grant us the grace of making pilgrimage together worthily.

G. Lloyd, M.A. Phil.
Pilgrimage Director
Fullerton, Pennsylvania
mail@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org
610/435-2634

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/
http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com
www.pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/
https://facebook.com/groups/pilgrimage.for.restoration/
www.facebook.com/PilgrimageforRestoration/

NCCL – 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119 USA

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message for pilgrim-registrants from the Director, Pilgrimage 2021

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TO: Pilgrim-registrants – Pilgrimage 2021

FROM: Greg Lloyd, Director – Pilgrimage for Restoration

 

A pilgrim is one who prays on The Way to the destination of his prayers.

After registering, what are the first steps of pilgrimage to prepare well for & make the best of the spiritual journey?

  1.   First & foremost, our Chaplains ask each pilgrim & brigade to offer daily the three-line prayer composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe. Find this easy-to-memorize prayer on this page of the Pilgrimage blog.

    2.  

  2.   To keep abreast of developments and messages to pilgrims, and for helpful practical tips — about things like packing, transportation, camping/lodgings, gear, food, etc. — subscribe to the Pilgrimage blog. http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/

    3.  

  3.   You can also join the Pilgrimage’s Facebook group or the FB page.

    4.  

  4.   Looking for a ride to pilgrimage? Get in on the pilgrims’ forum, and form a car-pool — or make other plans with fellow-pilgrims for brigade life, camps, you name it.   After you request the shuttle, to check-in, you can then also ask for help to arrange a ride from home, to car-pool to Allentown.

    5.  

  5.   Would you like your family to learn or practice some of the many songs sung on pilgrimage? Click here to request a CD or cassette of the Pilgrimage’s very own Songs of Pilgrimage or the Pilgrims’ Handbook of songs & prayers. Or paste the URL into your browser. http://national-coalition.org/w/songs-of-pilgrimage-order-form

Note: The documentary video is out of stock this season.

Listening while you walk (to get your ‘souls’ in shape) or work around the house is a great way to prepare the days of grace.

Blessed pilgrimage!

G. P. Lloyd, M.A. Phil.
Director of Pilgrimage
Fullerton, Pennsylvania
610/435-2634
mail@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

      P.S. Please notify the Pilgrimage Registrar of any change to your planned participation.

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

www.pilgrimage-for-restoration.org
http://pilgrimage-for-restoration/blog/

http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com
https://facebook.com/groups/pilgrimage.for.restoration/
https://facebook.com/PilgrimageForRestoration/

NCCL – 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119 USA
610/435-2634   mail@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

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message for pilgrim-registrants from the Chief of Brigadiers, Pilgrimage 2021

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TO: Pilgrim-registrants – Pilgrimage 2021

FROM: Reuben J. DeMaster – Chief of Brigadiers

 

Congratulations on taking a first step of pilgrimage re-located this season (on account of continued covidiocy in New York State) to eastern Pennsylvania, concluding at the Nat’l Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Allentown.

The second step is much like every other step of pilgrimage: to pray with the other pilgrim-registrants also preparing to honor Our Blessed Lady at her shrine. Indeed, prayer & penance is the beginning and end — the very reason — of the pilgrimage. The way of a pilgrim is the habit of unceasing prayer. I. Thessalonians v, 17

That’s why the Pilgrimage Chaplains ask each pilgrim to pray daily, beginning today, the three-line prayer composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe. Find it on this page of the Pilgrimage blog.

Find the pilgrims’ three-line prayer on the blog at http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/?p=2373

“He who sings well, prays twice.” (Attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo.) Why not multiply your praying power by learning or practicing some of the many songs sung on pilgrimage?

Click here to request your own copy of the Songs of Pilgrimage or the Pilgrims’ Handbook of prayers. Or paste the URL into your browser. http://national-coalition.org/w/songs-of-pilgrimage-order-form

Listening while you walk (to get your ‘souls’ in shape) or while putzing around the house is a great way to prepare the days of grace.

Find the Pilgrimage media here. Request your own copy of the Songs of Pilgrimage CD or the Pilgrims’ Handbook of prayers.

NOTE: the DVD video documentary is this season out of stock.

    Please let me hear from you if you await your brigade assignment, or if you have any questions about brigade-life. Please ask your fellow-brigadesmen or women to do the same. Click here to e-mail me.

Learn about brigade life on this page.

Godspeed!

Reuben J. DeMaster
Chief of Brigadiers
New Tripoli, Pennsylvania
demasterr@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

www.pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/modified-pilgrimage/
http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/
http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com/
www.facebook.com/groups/pilgrimage.for.restoration/
www.facebook.com/PilgrimageForRestoration/

NCCL – 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119 USA

NOTE WELL

Veterans know there is never a better time than now to commence preparations. And there never seems to be enough time, no matter how long in advance one registers.

Please therefore contact your brigadier as soon as possible to get started. If you don’t know or cannot reach him or her, drop me an e-mail.

Some of the brigades already have blogs. If yours doesn’t, please encourage your brigadier to start one. You, he or she can contact me for ideas.

Brigade of St. Joan of Arc – https://stjoanofarcbrigade.wordpress.com/
Brigade of St. Isaac Jogues – http://stisaacjoguesbrigade.wordpress.com
Brigade of St. Michael the Archangel – https://stmichaelbrigade.wordpress.com
Company of St. René Goupil – https://companyofsaintrenegoupil.wordpress.com/

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message for pilgrim-registrants about shuttle service, car-pools, and transportation all 3 days of Pilgrimage 2021

Promemoria

TO: Pilgrim-registrants, Pilgrimage 2021

FROM: Dennis P. Mitchell, R.O. – Transportation-Team
mitchelld@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org – Co. of St. René Goupîl

After completing registration, be sure also to submit the transportation form, to coordinate with organizers your arrival at the pilgrimage starting point Thursday, 23 September, and in order to guarantee retrieval of your vehicle after the final Mass Sunday, September 26.

Even if you or the group you are traveling with intend to keep your vehicle throughout the pilgrimage, we ask you to submit the form, to tell us that.

Request the shuttle also if you are arriving in Allentown via public transportation (PT – air, bus, rail) Thursday, Sept. 23 and/or wish to return Sunday, after pilgrimage, to a PT terminal in Allentown.

NOTE: If you positively must arrive at an airport besides/nearest Allentown — Scranton, Newark, or Philadelphia — please notify me immediately via e-mail to determine whether I can help to arrange a ride for you from that terminal to Allentown on Thursday, Sept. 23. Same goes for your departure Sunday. (I can make no guarantees, but we can try. The sooner you notify me the better.)

Please don’t delay. The sooner my colleagues & I know your plans, the sooner your itinerary can be fixed and together we can all help fellow pilgrims looking for rides to the region from ‘all over the map’.

Please also visit the online pilgrims’ forum to interact with fellow pilgrims, including to help those looking to car-pool to the starting-point, and back home.

Lots of pilgrims are looking for rides to step-off. Information you offer to others in the forum, and by submitting the transportation form, can be used to help arrange car-pools.

Please contact me if you have any questions about transportation.

A blessed pilgrimage!

Dennis P. Mitchell
Responsible Officer (R.O.), Transportation-Team
II. Dept. for Logistics – Company of St. René Goupîl
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
610/390-9507 mobile
mitchelld@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

www.national-coalition.org/w/transportation-request-form/
http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/
http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com/
www.facebook.com/groups/pilgrimage.for.restoration/
www.facebook.com/PilgrimageForRestoration/

NCCL – 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119 USA

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steps after completing registration – 2020

IN COMMEMORATION OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA!

TO: Registrants and fellow pilgrims in The Lord

FROM: Greg Lloyd, Director – Pilgrimage for Restoration

Thank you for having submitted the fee & the release of liability or/and the parental authorization of minor children.

Congratulations for completing registration for the 25th annual Pilgrimage for Restoration, Friday-Sunday, 25-27 September 2020.

Step-off in September may seem far off, but it always comes sooner than you think, and there is rarely enough time to prepare. In fact, pilgrimage has already begun, certainly for those praying, and now is the acceptable time to prepare with fellow pilgrims.

Please click on the following hyperlinks for step-by-step guidance to prepare, in numeric order, for the days of pilgrimage.

  1. The Chaplain asks each pilgrim and brigade to offer daily the three-line prayer composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe. Download it from this page of the Pilgrimage blog.
  2. Click here to read a very important & urgent message from Dennis, Mitchell, the Vice-Director charged with organizing shuttle service, car-pools, and transportation all three days of pilgrimage.
  3. Chief of Brigadiers Reuben DeMaster has an important message found here for you and every brigadesman and woman.
  4. Next, click here for an useful message from the Pilgrimage Director, in order to keep yourself up-to-date of developments.
  5. To read about conducting oneself modestly-dressed on pilgrimage, click here.

Click here to read answers to frequently asked questions – FAQs — in general.

Click here for answers to questions specifically about preparing for departure and step-off.

Keep this page bookmarked, since it can be accessed only with a hyperlink/URL supplied to a pilgrim after completing registration.

God grant us the grace of making pilgrimage together worthily.

G. Lloyd, M.A. Phil.
Pilgrimage Director
Fullerton, Pennsylvania
mail@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org
610/435-2634

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/
http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com
www.pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/
https://facebook.com/groups/pilgrimage.for.restoration/
www.facebook.com/PilgrimageforRestoration/

NCCL – 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119 USA

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Message for families from the Director of the modified Pilgrimage 2020

IN COMMEMORATION OF THE MARTYRS OF NEW FRANCE

TO: Family-registrants – Pilgrimage 2020

FROM: Charles Zepeda, Director – Modified Pilgrimage

 

A pilgrim is one who prays on The Way to the destination of his prayers.

To prepare well for pilgrimage, therefore, our Chaplains ask each pilgrim & family to offer daily the three-line prayer composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe.

Find it on this page of the Pilgrimage blog.

To keep abreast of developments and messages to pilgrims, please subscribe to the Pilgrimage blog. http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/

Or join the Pilgrimage’s Facebook group.

Looking for a ride to pilgrimage? Get in on the pilgrims’ forum, and form a car-pool — or make other plans with fellow-pilgrims for brigade life, camps, you name it.

Would you like your family to learn or practice some of the many songs sung on pilgrimage?

Click here to request a CD or cassette of the Pilgrimage’s very own Songs of Pilgrimage or the documentary video. Or paste the URL into your browser. http://national-coalition.org/w/songs-of-pilgrimage-order-form

Get Pilgrimage media here.

Listening while you walk (to get your ‘souls’ in shape) or work around the house is a great way to prepare the days of grace.

Find an overview of the ‘modified pilgrimage’ on this page.

A blessed pilgrimage!

Charles P. Zepeda
Director – Modified Pilgrimage
Capon Bridge, West Virginia
304/616-2384
zepedac@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

P.S. Please notify my Wife, Erika of any change to your planned participation.

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

www.pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/modified/
http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/

http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/pilgrimage.for.restoration/

NCCL – 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119 USA
610/435-2634 mail@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

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Message for families from the Chief of Brigadiers, Pilgrimage 2020

IN COMMEMORATION OF THE MARTYRS OF NEW FRANCE

TO: Family-registrants – Pilgrimage 2020

FROM: Reuben J. DeMaster – Chief of Brigadiers

 

Congratulations on taking a first step of pilgrimage with your family re-located this season from New York State to Pennsylvania, concluding at the Nat’l Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Allentown!

The second step is much like every other step of pilgrimage: to pray with the other pilgrim-registrants also preparing to go to Auriesville. Indeed, prayer & penance is the beginning and end — the very reason — of the pilgrimage. The way of a pilgrim is the habit of ceaseless prayer. I. Thessalonians 5, 17

That’s why the Fathers-chaplain ask each pilgrim to pray daily the very short prayer composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe.

Find it on this page of the Pilgrimage blog.

“He who sings well, prays twice.” (Attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo.) Why not multiply your praying power by learning or practicing some of the many songs sung on pilgrimage?

Click here to request your own copy of the Songs of Pilgrimage CD or the video documentary. Or paste the URL into your browser. http://national-coalition.org/w/songs-of-pilgrimage-order-form

Listening while you walk (to get your ‘souls’ in shape) or while putzing around the house is a great way to prepare the days of grace.

Find the Pilgrimage media here.

Please let me hear from you if you await the brigade assignment/s for your family, or if you have any questions about brigade-life.

Learn about brigade life on this page.

Learn a little about brigade life in the ‘modified pilgrimage’ on this page.

Or, click here to e-mail my Assistant, John Zepeda, who also can help to answer your questions about brigade life for families participating in the ‘modified pilgrimage’.

Godspeed!

Reuben J. DeMaster
Chief of Brigadiers
New Tripoli, Pennsylvania
484/201-8249
demasterr@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

www.pilgrimage-for-restoration.org
http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/

http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/pilgrimage.for.restoration/

NCCL – 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119 USA

 

NOTE WELL


Veterans know there is never a better time than now to commence preparations. And there never seems to be enough time, no matter how long in advance one registers.

Please therefore contact your brigadier as soon as possible to get started. If you don’t know or cannot reach him or her, drop my Assistant, John Zepeda, an e-mail.

Some of the brigades already have blogs. If yours doesn’t, please encourage your brigadier to start one. You, he or she can contact the Pilgrimage’s Vice-Director for Communications, John Cavanagh, for ideas.

Brigade of St. Joan of Arc – https://stjoanofarcbrigade.wordpress.com/
Brigade of St. Isaac Jogues – http://stisaacjoguesbrigade.wordpress.com
Brigade of St. Michael the Archangel – https://stmichaelbrigade.wordpress.com
Company of St. René Goupil – https://companyofsaintrenegoupil.wordpress.com/

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message for pilgrim-registrants from the Director, Pilgrimage 2020

Promemoria

TO: Pilgrim-registrants – Pilgrimage 2020

FROM: Greg Lloyd, Director – Pilgrimage for Restoration

 

A pilgrim is one who prays on The Way to the destination of his prayers.

After registering, what are the first steps of pilgrimage to prepare well for & make the best of the spiritual journey?

  1.   First & foremost, our Chaplains ask each pilgrim & brigade to offer daily the three-line prayer composed by St. Nicholas of Flüe. Find this easy-to-memorize prayer on this page of the Pilgrimage blog.
  2.   To keep abreast of developments and messages to pilgrims, and for helpful practical tips — about things like packing, transportation, camping/lodgings, gear, food, etc. — subscribe to the Pilgrimage blog. http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/
  3.   You can also join the Pilgrimage’s Facebook group.
  4.   Looking for a ride to pilgrimage? Get in on the pilgrims’ forum, and form a car-pool — or make other plans with fellow-pilgrims for brigade life, camps, you name it.
  5.   Would you like your family to learn or practice some of the many songs sung on pilgrimage?Click here to request a CD or cassette of the Pilgrimage’s very own Songs of Pilgrimage or the documentary video. Or paste the URL into your browser. http://national-coalition.org/w/songs-of-pilgrimage-order-formListening while you walk (to get your ‘souls’ in shape) or work around the house is a great way to prepare the days of grace.

A blessed pilgrimage!

G. P. Lloyd, M.A. Phil.
Director of Pilgrimage
Fullerton, Pennsylvania
610/435-2634
mail@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org

      P.S. Please notify the Pilgrimage Registrar of any change to your planned participation.

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

www.pilgrimage-for-restoration.org
http://pilgrimage-for-restoration/blog/

http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com
https://facebook.com/groups/pilgrimage.for.restoration/
https://facebook.com/PilgrimageForRestoration/

NCCL – 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119 USA
610/435-2634 pilgrimage.for.restoration@gmail.com

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completing your or your group’s registration – Pilgrimage 2020

In Commemoration of the Martyrs

TO: pilgrim-registrants, fellow pilgrims in The Lord
FROM: Greg Lloyd, Director – Pilgrimage for Restoration
 
 
Congratulations! And thank you for registering for the milestone 25th annual Pilgrimage for Restoration, Friday-Sunday, 25-27 September, 2020 A.D.

The fee is due at time of registration, and completes your registration.

The schedule of fees & discounts is summarized on this webpage.

There are two ways to pay the fee: (1.) online — using PayPal; or (2.) via mail — by check or cash.

NOTE WELL: to avail of a group or family discount, the fee must be (a.) paid online; (b.) submitted in one transaction only; and, (c.) time-stamped on the same day as the online registration.

1. Pay online using PayPal.

    If you haven’t yet paid online, click on the “Donate” button this page.     (Or paste the same URL into your browser tab. http://national-coalition.org/#gift/ .)
    You can also sign-in to paypal.com directly using your PayPal account, and send the fee to “gift@national-coalition.org” with a short description: “group [or family] registration fee – Pilgrimage 2020”.
    Nota bene: Even if you do not have an account, you can pay the fee using PayPal. All you need to get started is a valid credit card.

2. Pay via mail, by check or cash.

    If submitting the fee by cash or check, payable to NCCL, please mail it to 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119, along with a print-out of the confirmation e-mail sent to you automatically at submission of the webform.

God grant us the grace of making pilgrimage together worthily.

G. P. Lloyd, M.A. Phil.
Pilgrimage Director
mail@pilgrimage-for-restoration.org
610/435-2634

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

http://pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/blog/
www.https://facebook.com/groups/pilgrimage.for.restoration/
http://pilgrimage.forumotion.com/
www.pilgrimage-for-restoration.org/

Registration

c/o NCCL – 621 Jordan Circle, Whitehall PA 18052-7119 USA

Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.

25th annual

Friday – Sunday
September 25 – 27, 2020
“Nobody makes pilgrimage alone.”
“In unione orationum.”
“Now is the acceptable time.”
II. Cor. vi, 2

Now is the time to register to pilgrimage to Auriesville. Register from 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!

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Something for everyone – 2020

Schedule in overview

Friday-Sunday, 25-27 September

Pilgrimage 2020 offers multiple days & ways to make it easier to participate than ever.

There’s something for just about everybody. Take your pick.

Traditional Roman liturgy forma extraordinaria, personal spiritual guidance, teaching, confessions, fellowship – every day.

1.   Sunday-only, September 27

    Register now for Sunday only!

    As at the model Pentecost Pilgrimage to Chartres in France, many pilgrims join on the last day, Sunday, to walk the last leg of the spiritual journey with the column of pilgrims on the road since Friday.

    Click here for the itinerary, options, and instructions for Sunday.

    NOTE: Many pages of the blog and website are still being updated to reflect the re-location of Pilgrimage 2020 to Pennsylvania. Please check the blog often for updates.]

    Extraordinary Holy Mass crowns the Pilgrimage in the Coliseum church of the Martyrs of New France at 3:15 P.M. Sunday.

    Pilgrims wear hats, sturdy walking shoes and modest clothing, remembering they attend Holy Mass after; no shorts.

    Pilgrims bring bottled water, make provisions for inclement weather and carry holy images, banners & flags – but no signs as in demonstration.

2.   Friday – Sunday, 25-27 September

    Register now for more than one day!

    • Walk three days through the Adirondacks, 63 miles, from the Lake of the Blessed Sacrament (aka Lake George, NY) to the Shrine of Our Lady’s Martyrs, at Auriesville.

      • Transportation & TLC are provided throughout for weary pilgrims.

    Three to five miles walking daily for two weeks prior to the event is recommended for conditioning.

    Pilgrims may walk three hours, three miles or three days thanks to the charity of volunteers who shadow the walking-column in vans.

    Camp two nights and join up with the your family, friends & fellow pilgrims arriving Sunday for continuation to Auriesville.

     
    Traditional Roman liturgy forma extraordinaria, personal spiritual guidance, confessions, fellowship — every day.

3.   Friday – Sunday, 25-27 September   Modified Pilgrimage

    Register now for the Modified Pilgrimage!

    Children and their parents – seniors, too – may join for more than one day in a modified pilgrimage: praying, singing, playing, learning catechism – in camp. They also (may) walk short distances with pilgrims in the main column each morning, afternoon, and evening.

4.   Pilgrimage from afar

    Can’t travel to make pilgrimage?

    Click here to request prayers, offer prayers, or to sponsor a pilgrim!

    Pilgrims will remember you in prayer en route, and you can pray for them while making pilgrimage from home.

    Click here to learn how to obtain a plenary indulgence from your home.