First Full Day of National Eucharistic Congress Makes Powerful Impact
| 07/19/2024
By: Mary Shovlain
After Wednesday evening’s opening ceremonies for the National Eucharistic Congress, Thursday marked the first full day of events for the 50,000 attendees.
The day began with pilgrims making their way to Indianapolis’s Lucas Oil Stadium for the opening Mass celebrated by Cardinal Dolan.
The arena, which is normally full of cheering football and basketball fans, was now packed with Catholics from all over the country celebrating the source and summit of our faith, the Most Holy Eucharist.
In his homily, Cardinal Dolan said recovering the centrality of Sunday Mass has to be the resolve of this Congress, saying, “as Pope Francis has repeated, no Eucharist, no Church.”
Sr. Mechtilde Doherty, OP, spent 71 years as a Dominican Sister of Blauvelt, devoting more than four decades to teaching second grade and CCD before serving her convent community as housekeeping supervisor until she entered eternal life at 89.
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The Good Newsroom
| 09/15/2026
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El reverendo Gilberto Ángel-Neri, párroco de la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, invita a los fieles a visitar las reliquias de santa Bernardita del 16 al 18 de octubre.
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Fernanda Pierorazio
| 09/15/2026
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Reverend Gilberto Ángel-Neri, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, invites the faithful to visit the relics of Saint Bernadette from October 16 to 18.