Eucharistic Adoration

A mountaintop moment’: How the Eucharistic Congress wants to unify the Church

By Jack Figge, the Pilot, February 8, 2024   Editor’s note: When nearly 20,000 young Catholics — mostly students — gathered at SEEK, a massive conference sponsored by campus ministry apostolate FOCUS, in January, The Pillar featured reporting from Catholic student journalist... read more

Pope Paul VI Promoted Communion on the Tongue

By William Bloomfield, One Peter Five, June 10, 2023 Saturday within the Octave of Corpus Christi Editor’s note: as part of our campaign for the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus in June, we offer this article for our readers to share especially with their Catholic friends and family (as... read more

Eucharistic pilgrimage expected to ‘restrict’ adoration in Chicago archdiocese

The Pillar, April 14, 2023   The Archdiocese of Chicago is expected to restrict the exposition of the Eucharist during a national Eucharistic pilgrimage that will traverse the Chicago region next year, ahead of the Eucharistic Congress scheduled for next July. Bishop Andrew Cozzens... read more

Organizers of National Eucharistic Congress announce pilgrimage plans, major budget cut

By Joe Bukuras, Catholi News Agency, November 17, 2022 Organizers of the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis have announced plans for a major pilgrimage to the event — and a big budget cut. The Congress, which is the culmination of the National Eucharistic Revival — a... read more

Meet the ‘Eucharistic Preachers’

The newly assembled team of 56 priests gathered for a Eucharistic retreat before being sent on mission as part of the National Eucharistic Revival. By Susan Klemond, National Catholic Register, May 12, 2022 An April retreat on Chicago’s West Side that included prayer in adoration, Mass,... read more

Catholic teaching on Communion applies to politicians who support abortion, too, Bishop Olmsted says

Catholic News Agency, Phoenix, Ariz., April 6, 2021 Catholic teaching sees the Eucharist as Christ’s transformative sacrifice on the cross and this Holy Communion must only be received worthily. This teaching is not partisan, but it certainly applies to political leaders who back abortion and... read more

Book Review: The Holy Bread of Eternal Life: Restoring Eucharistic Reverence in an Age of Impiety

[Author, speaker, LifeSite News contributor Dr. Peter Kwasniewski Spoke at our June 14, 2019 Forum Luncheon on “Of What Use Is a Changing Catechism?”] By Dan Millette, One Peter Five, November 24, 2020 I feel compelled to provide some context before beginning. Last week my family and... read more

A US Bishop Discovers the Traditional Latin Mass

Bishop Joseph Strickland discusses what inspired him to celebrate the extraordinary form of the Mass on June 11. By Bree A. Dail, National Catholic Register TYLER, Texas — Before January, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, had only attended a traditional Latin Mass once before and... read more

Exorcist Blames Bishops and Priests for Loss of Faith in Eucharist

“The house of the priest is not the rectory. He is at home only where Christ is present.” Patti Armstrong Blog, October 31, 2019 How is it possible that despite the Catholic Church always having taught that the Holy Eucharist is really, truly and substantially the Body and Blood of... read more

Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland in Oregon addressed his flock in August regarding the results of the survey

By Catholic News Agency, September 20, 2019 WASHINGTON — Six weeks after a Pew Research study found that only one-third of Catholics in the U.S. believe that the bread and wine become at Mass the Body and Blood of Christ, bishops across the country are writing to the faithful in the hopes... read more

Catholic schools must restore America’s faith in the Real Presence

BY PATRICK J. REILLY, AUGUST 26, 2019 “He is truly there in the Eucharist,” says Amelia Shripka. The 8th-grader at Everest Collegiate High School and Academy in Clarkston, Michigan takes delight in the Eucharistic procession that her school holds every year. It’s a “great time to... read more

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