This past Wednesday, the executive team for the National Eucharistic Congress announced it will be launching a National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in the summer of 2024. The pilgrimage will consist of four cross-country eucharistic processions, collectively traversing the entire continental United States over a two-month period….
The pilgrimage will begin during Pentecost, May 17–19, 2024, from four origin points: San Francisco in the west; Bemidji, Minnesota, from the north; New Haven, Connecticut, from the east; and Brownsville, Texas, from the south….
The four pilgrimage processions will ultimately converge in Indianapolis on July 16, 2024, to participate in the National Eucharistic Congress.
Though everyone is invited to join the pilgrimage, four dozen full-time pilgrims [ages 19 to 29] from each corner of the U.S. will make the entire journey….
West
Named the “Serra Route,” after St. Junipero Serra, the patron saint of California, the western route is the longest of the planned pilgrimages and will begin in San Francisco. The pilgrimage will then pass through Salt Lake City; Denver; Omaha, Nebraska; and St. Louis, before ending in Indianapolis.
For more information on the western route, click here.
North
Since this route will stop at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion — the first Marian apparition site in the U.S. — it has been dubbed the “Marian Route.” The northern pilgrimage will start from Bemidji, Minnesota, and pass through Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago and Notre Dame, Indiana.
For more information on the northern route, click here.
East
The eastern route has been named the “Seton Route” after the first American-born saint to be canonized, Elizabeth Ann Seton. It will begin in New Haven, Connecticut, and pass through New York City; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Pittsburgh; Steubenville, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; and Cincinnati.
For more information on the eastern route, click here.
South
St. Juan Diego, to whom Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in 1531, is the patron saint of the southern route. This pilgrimage will begin in the city of Brownsville at the far southern tip of Texas. The pilgrims on this route will then pass through Houston; New Orleans; Atlanta; Nashville, Tennessee; and Louisville, Kentucky, before converging with the other pilgrimages.
For more information on the southern route, click here.
If you are a young adult interested in applying to be a full-time pilgrim, email hello@eucharisticpilgrimage.org to be notified when the application goes live this summer.
More information on the revival can be found here.
To register to participate in the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis July 17–21, 2024, click here.
From the National Catholic Register.
They’re going to walk through Texas in July? What planet do they live on?
Is this really a good idea?
The potential for someone to be killed or seriously injured seems pretty huge.
Maybe they are not really walking the whole way.
Where do they sleep?
This is the sort of thing committees love to think up. I think this whole Eucharistic Congress is a waste of time. Go to a randomly selected Catholic parish and check out the quality of the worship, music, and preaching there. 80% of the time it will be embarrassingly poor. Sit in on religious ed classes. 90% of the time the instruction will be embarrassingly bad. This Eucharistic Congress will not renew the American Church. It’s just a show. Every bishop, every pastor, every music director, every DRE, every catechist needs to step it up at his own parish. Only by renewing local parish life by improving its quality dramatically will there be a renewal of Eucharistic faith in the country.
We already had a Eucharistic Revival. It was the Traditional Latin Mass movement, and now that’s being destroyed.
Because Vatican II mandated liturgical reform. TLMers always leave that out. The true Eucharistic revival will be through and with the post-Vatican II new Mass celebrated properly.
There was never any true mandate for liturgical reform.
Do yourself a favor and read the sordid history of Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, his desire to protestantize the Catholic Mass, his reasons for adding contradictory and ambiguous paragraphs in Sacrosanctum Concilium, how he railroaded it through the Council, how he played Pope Paul VI … and how he was found to be a high-ranking Freemason.
Facts are stubborn things.
Schismatics are stubborn.
And modernists are all heretics
Liturgical reform and the mandate for it started long before Bugnini, Paul, and even St John XXIII. And even if one were to agree with you that the path to the Mass of St Paul was “sordid”, which I don’t, the reform was reconfirmed over and over again by Popes and Bishops ever since. Only someone intent on disobeying the authentic magisterium would conclude there was no mandate for reform.
And only modernists would think that the Novus Ordo has been improvement. By every measurable metric the Church has been shrinking in the West since the so called reforms. We will just outlast and by martyred for it if have to.
Just because someone is willing to be “martyred” for a “cause” doesn’t mean that his/her cause is valid, legitimate, or worthwhile. You should consider that your willingness to be “martyred” for disobeying the Church will only earn you a handful of sand. The futility of your “martyrdom.”
bohemond, you said you were a Catholic