Downtown Frederick is site of Corpus Christi procession June 6, 2024By Erik Anderson Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Eucharist, Local News, News, Uncategorized Three blocks of downtown Frederick were cleared of traffic June 2 for an afternoon procession led by St. John the Evangelist Church that drew more than 800 of the faithful into the streets to celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi.
‘Perpetual pilgrims’ are to be ‘a light to those we encounter’ on way to congress June 6, 2024By Amber Walling OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Jennifer Torres began her pilgrimage on the northern Marian Route, which began May 17 in Bemidji, Minn., at the Star of the North Conference and will end in Indianapolis at the National Eucharistic Congress.
Seminarians discern a closer walk with Jesus traveling the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage June 3, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Vocations, World News Having seminarians join the five or six other young adult “perpetual pilgrims” and their priest and religious brother chaplains on each route provides the young men “a unique formational opportunity” that allows them “to also be a witness to other young men who may be discerning a vocation to the priesthood,” said Joel Stepanek, vice president of programming and administration for National Eucharistic Congress Inc.
Corpus Christi procession is not sign of pride but invitation, pope says June 3, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Vatican, World News When Catholics carry the Eucharist through the streets, “we are not doing this to show off or to flaunt our faith” but to invite others to share in the life that Jesus gives by making himself a gift, Pope Francis said.
Want revival? The Sacred Heart shows us what it takes June 1, 2024By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist To sustain authentic spiritual revival, our hearts must be like Christ’s.
Stories of conversion, ‘amazing’ encounters mark National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s first 10 days May 31, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Ten days into their journeys, the 23 perpetual pilgrims were in the Diocese of Victoria; the Diocese of Boise, Idaho; the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis; and the Diocese of Trenton, N.J.
5 Things to Know about the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s stop in Maryland May 29, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News Five Things to Know about the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s stop in the Archdiocese of Baltimore:
‘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.
