Welcome to our Pilgrim’s Way!
Our diocesan Pilgrim’s Way includes parishes, shrines, and sacred celebrations honouring our namesake saints, cultures, and traditions woven into the rich tapestry of our diocese.
The Way is listed here by Feast Day or other significant date. You are invited to visit on or around this date, or at any time throughout the year.
You are also invited to hold the Saint, significant date, and site in prayer on your own spiritual pilgrimage.
Event details will be shared here as well as in parish bulletins, and our diocesan newsletter, Seven Ears of Grain.
Please check often! New events will be posted as details are available.
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Events on our Pilgrim’s Way:
Stations of the Cross in the church at 11 am
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Some Notes For Your Journey:
The theme of Jubilee 2025 is ‘Pilgrims of Hope’.
The intention of the year is to offer all of us an opportunity to be “renewed in hope.”
What is a pilgrimage?
“Pilgrimage is an experience of conversion, of transforming one’s very being to conform it to the holiness of God.” (https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/)
A pilgrimage is a journey with an intention to open, learn, feel, and deepen our awareness and connection to God, our faith, and ourselves. The experience of a pilgrimage is to awaken new insights, illuminate new possibilities, and invite action, all from and through the love of God and inspiration of His Word, the Saints, and the unique aspects each sacred site provides.
How do I become a pilgrim?
The Jubilee pilgrimage begins before the start of the journey itself: the starting point is the decision to set out. It is important to prepare ourselves well, to plan the route, and learn about the destination. … The journey takes place gradually: there are various routes to choose from and places to discover; it is made up of particular sets of circumstances, moments of catechesis, sacred rites and liturgies. Along the way our traveling companions enrich us with new ways of understanding things and fresh perspectives. Contemplation of creation is also part of the journey and helps us to realize that care for creation “is an essential expression of our faith in God and our obedience to his will” (Pope Francis, Letter for the Jubilee 2025). (https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/)
What is a Plenary Indulgence?
For the Jubilee Year, a plenary indulgence can be received through either Pilgrimages, Pious Visits to Sacred Places , or Works of Mercy and Penance.
In our diocese, a sacred place is any of our churches or one of our diocesan shrines: Our Lady of Sorrows in Mabou, Our Lady of Guadalupe in Johnstown, or Our Lady of Grace Monastery.
At this sacred place, pilgrims are asked to participate in Holy Mass, a ritual Mass for the conferral of the sacraments of Christian Initiation or the Anointing of the Sick, a celebration of the Word of God, the Liturgy of the Hours, the Way of the Cross, the Marian Rosary, the recitation of the Akathist hymn, a penitential celebration with individual confession, or Eucharistic Adoration concluding with Our Father, Profession of Faith, and invocations to Mary.
Details on the Jubilee plenary indulgence can be found in this document:
