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Audience members listen to Father Josh Johnson as he kicks off the first revival Wednesday, July 17, 2024, during the National Eucharistic Congress at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
The last national congress to occur prior to the 2024 congress was the Ninth National Eucharistic Congress in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1941. While there had been national congresses about every five years prior to the ninth congress, the outbreak of World War II halted the gatherings. [ 4 ]
The National Eucharistic Congress will run July 17-21 and host more than 50,000 Catholics. The gathering will kick off Tuesday at noon when the four caravans meet at St. John the Evangelist Church ...
The budget for the National Eucharistic Revival — which is actually a three-year process that has included parish activities as well as the pilgrimages and congress — is about $23 million ...
The Ninth National Eucharistic Congress was a Catholic Eucharistic congress held from June 23 to 26, 1941, at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. The event, meant to foster devotion to the sacrament of the Eucharist , attracted hundreds of thousands of attendees.
The congress was born out of the Priests' Eucharistic League in the United States, who planned to hold their 1930 national convention in Omaha. However, after deliberation and hoping to capitalize on the success of the greatly successful 28th International Eucharistic Congress in Chicago, it was decided that the gathering should not just be a convention of league members but a full Eucharistic ...
Thousands of Catholics walked through downtown Indy for the Eucharistic procession. Over 50,000 came to partake in the National Eucharistic Congress.
The Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses is part of the Roman Curia of the Roman Catholic Church. It was erected in 1879 by Pope Leo XIII . Its statutes were last updated by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.