With grateful hearts, we warmly invite you to join the Sisters in preparing for Pilgrimage—a special time when your presence, prayers, and helping hands are truly a blessing. Volunteering not only allows you to serve but also makes you part of a tradition that touches countless lives and forges new bonds of faith. This year, two meaningful opportunities await your generosity and spirit.

The first opportunity is Helping Hands Day, sponsored by the Greek Catholic Union of the U.S.A., which will take place at Mount St. Macrina on Saturday, May 30th.

On this day, we come together—young and old friends and family—to prepare for the 92nd Annual Pilgrimage, a gathering that uplifts and strengthens the bonds of our faith community.

With every flower planted, every shrine cared for, and every corner tended, we offer not only our labor but also our prayers and hopes for all who will come to the Pilgrimage—September 5th & 6th. Your service helps transform the grounds into a place of welcome and peace, ready to embrace pilgrims with beauty and grace.

If you can participate, please note the following:

The group will meet in the Trinity Center for coffee and donuts at 9:30 a.m.  A brief prayer service will follow, and work will begin at 10:00 a.m.

Bring lawn tools (including brooms, rakes, weed whackers, etc.) for outside work. Bring brooms, mops, dust pans, etc., for any indoor cleaning.

Lunch will be served. To register or for additional information, please call Sr. Joanne at 724-438-4940 or Greek Catholic Union at 1-800-722– 8644.

On Saturday, August 22, there will be another organized preparation day, with a rain date set for Saturday, August 29. Volunteers are asked to meet at the Trinity Center at 9:30 a.m. Please bring brooms, weed whackers, blowers, weeding tools, rakes, and clippers. Lunch will be provided.

For further information, please call Sr. Joanne at 724-438-8644.