Volunteer – 2024

Pilgrim-organizers volunteer to take on many responsibilities & roles. They always need help.

Could this be your way of making pilgrimage?

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“Water lilies” provide water and good cheer to walking pilgrims.

The Company of St. Rene Goupil helps with most of the material needs of the Pilgrimage, including —

shuttling & transportation for weary pilgrims

first-aid

food prep

safety on the streets

campsite set-up

port-a-johns, pick-ups and drivers

water distribution and drivers

communications

care for the priests

Mass set-up

pre-pilgrimage scouting, and guidance along the way

night watch in camps

That is not all! The Pilgrimage is always in need of —

priests and religious

assistance with check-in and registration and communication

altar servers (males over the age of ten with experience)

brigade leaders (laymen and women who organize pilgrims in groups of 25-40.)

sacred music (choir director, singers, chaplain)

assistance with Sunday’s events for pilgrims who arrive for the last day

assistance with the Modified Pilgrimage for families and non-walkers

IT technicians, web & blog designers and editors, writers, and assistance to reply to inquiries

clean-up Sunday and Monday after the pilgrimage

  • Click here to learn about the Company of St. René Goupîl.
  • Click here to learn about the altar servers in the Corps of St. Eustace Ahatsistari.
  • Click here to learn about the other divisions of pilgrimage organization.

Click here to register for the Pilgrimage. (Besides ‘signing-up’, all volunteers must first register.)

Contact pilgrim-organizers to find out more or to step-forward in service.

If you are unable to help in the above ways, consider a donation.

Click here to donate alms to the pilgrimage apostolate, or to sponsor a pilgrim.