Pilgrim Year of Preparation Calendar

WYDUSA Pilgrim Year Calendars

Join pilgrims across the United States in preparation for World Youth Day 2016. If your pilgrimage takes place in Krakow or the USA, you are part of an international journey started by Saint John Paul II and lead by Christ, into the heart of the Church.  As Bishop Caggiano stressed at the beginning of the Pilgrim Year of Preparation, the international World Youth Day celebration seems distant, but the pilgrimage preparation must begin immediately.  The World Youth Day Office has designed this calendar to help you prepare your heart and mind for the pilgrimage that lay ahead. This calendar highlights saints associated with World Youth Day (and in particular the host country Poland), as well as dates and people important to the United States of America. It also includes connections to all the past World Youth Day gatherings. Our hope is that you take time to pray and learn about these special events and people throughout the coming year - and incorporate your U.S. Catholic heritage into your faith life and your pilgrim journey. 

As you prepare for World Youth Day, open your hearts and minds to the wisdom, courage and strength that awaits you in this blessed experience.        It will impact your faith in a tremendous way.
-- Bishop Edward J Burns 

Table of Contents

Download individual PDFs of each month here:

• July 2015 Calendar
  
  
• August 2015 Calendar
  
  
• September 2015 Calendar
  
  
• October 2015 Calendar
  
  
• November 2015 Calendar
  
  
• December 2015 Calendar
  
  
• January 2016 Calendar
  
  
• February 2016 Calendar
  
  
• March 2016 Calendar
  
  
• April 2016 Calendar
  
  
• May 2016 Calendar
  
  
• June 2016 Calendar
  
  
• July 2016 Calendar
  

Want it all at once? Download the full WYDUSA 2015-2016 Calendar

Check out a comprehensive list of American saints and blesseds to further celebrate American Catholic heritage and learn about other pilgrims who listened to God's mission for their lives. 

Throughout the Pilgrim Year of Preparation, we encourage you to pray the World Youth Day USA prayer as often as you are able.