‘All gifts from God’: Crowds, connection, conversion mark national pilgrimage’s first week May 24, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News In their first week, pilgrims on the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage have faced blisters, a busted toe and thunderstorms, but those “hiccups” along the routes are “all gifts from God,” said Jack Krebs, a perpetual pilgrim on the pilgrimage’s St. Junipero Serra Route.
Eucharistic procession through streets of nation’s capital draws hundreds of faithful May 21, 2024By Katie Yoder OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News Passersby halted and cars slowed to a crawl as they took in the scene the morning of May 18: Hundreds of Catholics processed through the streets of Washington, following a priest carrying a consecrated host — Christ’s body, blood, soul and divinity present under the appearance of bread — beneath a canopy.
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage journeys begin on Pentecost, inviting torrents of grace on U.S. May 20, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News The pilgrimage is part of the National Eucharistic Revival, a three-year initiative launched in 2022 by the U.S. bishops to inspire a deeper love and reverence for Jesus in the Eucharist, after a Pew Research Center survey found only one-third of U.S. Catholics believed the church’s teaching of Jesus being truly present in the Eucharist.
Northern pilgrimage begins with a call to holiness and an intimate walk in the woods with Jesus May 20, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News In full vestments and flanked by pines, Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens held high the Eucharist in a golden monstrance, making the sign of the cross over the stream that flowed gently from the placid lake behind him. Next to him, a signpost read, “Here 1,475 FT above the ocean, the mighty Mississippi begins to flow on its winding way 2,552 miles to the Gulf of Mexico.”
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s eastern route kicks off: ‘We walk together as the body of Christ’ May 19, 2024By Maria-Pia Negro Chin OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Under a cold drizzle, scores of Catholics in New Haven sang and prayed while following the Eucharistic Jesus in procession. This May 18 display of faith marked the first Eucharistic procession of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s eastern route.
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s southern route starts with joyful witness amid Mass, processions May 19, 2024By Marietha Góngora V. OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News The southern arm of the national pilgrimage launched from the tip of Texas in Brownsville — nearly half a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border — and will wind around the Gulf of Mexico and traverse the country’s southeast on its way to Indianapolis to attend the July 17-21 10th National Eucharistic Congress.
Faith lived in love has ‘power to change history,’ says Cordileone as Eucharistic pilgrimage begins May 19, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone told pilgrims at a Pentecost Mass launching the western route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage — the St. Junipero Serra Route — that the faith publicly lived in love has the “power to change history.”
Sisters on Eucharistic pilgrimage’s ‘Seton Route’ see God’s providence in preparations May 17, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News Learning to reverse a truck attached to a camper trailer wasn’t on Mother Mary Maximilian Cote’s to-do list — until recently, when it became a pressing need. On May 18, she and three other members of the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Healing Love are joining the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, and she’s a back-up driver for their support vehicle.
Pilgrim priest: National Eucharistic Pilgrimage helps reveal the church’s ‘deepest core’ May 17, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Father Roger Landry may be the reason 24 young people and several priests are walking thousands of miles across the United States this summer with the Eucharist.
Planning to join up with the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage? Here’s what you need to know May 17, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News There are hundreds of opportunities for Catholics to join the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage for Mass, adoration, processions and other events. However, casually meeting up with perpetual pilgrims along the four routes may be trickier, and is even prohibited along certain sections of the journey, according to pilgrimage leaders.
Eucharistic Pilgrimage kicks off May 18-19 with Masses, processions at iconic sites, including Baltimore and Emmitsburg May 16, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News The routes’ 24 “perpetual pilgrims,” along with their priest chaplains and seven seminarians will accompany the Eucharist, exposed in a monstrance, as they travel — often on foot — across the United States.
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s Marian Route includes major landmarks dedicated to Mary May 16, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Beginning on Pentecost May 19, the Marian Route is one of four National Pilgrimage Routes that will converge in Indianapolis ahead of the July 17-21 National Eucharistic Congress. The pilgrimage and the congress are part of the National Eucharistic Revival, a three-year initiative of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that launched in 2022.
