Prayer Resources for Your Pilgrimage
Why a Pilgrimage?
A pilgrimage is “the simultaneous movement of the feet and the soul” — a journey made both externally and internally. A pilgrim is a person who travels on pilgrimage to a location of spiritual significance, stepping outside of themselves in order to encounter God in places where he has revealed himself. This action mirrors the interior journey of the pilgrim, who through this experience draws closer to our Lord and seeks him more intentionally.
When Jesus gave us the gift of the Eucharist, he gave us a new way to walk alongside him. Catholicism has a vibrant history of Eucharistic processions! In this tradition, the Eucharist is carried through the streets, accompanied by the faithful. We walk publicly with our Lord so that others may encounter him personally, just as they did 2,000 years ago.
The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage is a truly unique initiative. This is something NEW — a beautiful fusion of the journey TO Jesus and the journey WITH Jesus. What’s more, it is an adventure that all Catholics can do together, as we journey towards the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis.
Adapted from the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage website: www.eucharisticpilgrimage.org/why-join-us
Calling All Prayer Warriors! Join Us in Praying for Revival in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee with this Revival Novena
Pray with us as we ask God for the grace that every person who encounters the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in our Archdiocese will Awaken Faith, Experience Healing, and Give Witness.
PRAY WITH US NOW
Pray June 10-18, the 9 days leading up to the arrival of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in our Archdiocese
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Pray for the 9 days leading up to the arrival of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to your parish
AND/OR
Pray June 18-26, the 9 days when the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage is in our Archdiocese
Each day's video introduces the day's prayer requests and includes a preview of what will happen on that day of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in our Archdiocese.
How-To Eucharistic Adoration Card (Download PDF)
How To Sacrament of Reconciliation Card (Download PDF)
Tarjeta de instrucciones para la Adoración Eucarística (descargar)
Tarjeta de instrucciones para el Sacramento de la Reconciliación (descargar)
How to Pray a Rosary
How to Pray a Divine Mercy Chaplet
Opportunity to Gain a Plenary Indulgence
Pope Francis has extended a plenary indulgence to anyone who participates in the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. If God’s grace is poured out for us like rain, gaining an indulgence is like getting a bucket to catch more rain.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, quoting Pope Saint Paul VI, explains that “an indulgence is the remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under prescribed conditions through the action of the Church, which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of satisfactions of Christ and the saints.” (1471)
What does that mean? It’s a bit like if every time we sin, we pound a nail into the trunk of a tree. When we receive God’s forgiveness in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Jesus removes the nails. However, they leave holes. Penance repairs the holes left by the nails. The Church offers an indulgence as a way to receive God’s grace to repair holes either for oneself or for someone who died before their holes were repaired. Learn more about the Church’s teaching on indulgences in paragraphs 1471-1479 of the Catechism.
How to Gain This Indulgence:
Any baptized Catholic may gain a plenary indulgence once per day by fulfilling the conditions designated by the Church. In this case:
• Be in a state of grace (have no serious unconfessed sins, and not be formally separated from the Church)
• Have the interior disposition of complete detachment from sin
• Receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation
• Receive Holy Communion
• Pray for the intentions of the Holy Father (an Our Father and Hail Mary are recommended)
• Participate in the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage - any of our morning Masses, processions, parish stops, or Encounter Nights.
If any of these conditions are missing, it becomes a partial indulgence and makes partial reparation for our sins.
National Eucharistic Revival Official Hymn
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage Song Book
National Eucharistic Revival Prayer