Ways to Participate in the Eucharistic Congress in Spirit

Grow in Eucharistic Faith

If you aren’t able to attend the National Eucharistic Congress, there are still plenty of things you can do to participate in sprit! Consider attending Mass daily and receive Holy Communion if you are able.

Make the Act of Spiritual Communion

My Jesus, 
I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. 
I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You.
Amen.

Pray the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary

Our Father…

Holy Mary, Mother of Life: Give your courage to newly pregnant mothers…
Hail Mary, full of grace…

Holy Mary, Mother of Life: Intercede for those fearful of a child’s impending birth…
Hail Mary, full of grace…

Holy Mary, Mother of Life: Hasten to pray for all expectant parents…
Hail Mary, full of grace…

Holy Mary, Mother of Life: Stand by the relatives and friends of all expectant parents…
Hail Mary, full of grace…

Holy Mary, Mother of Life: Remember those forgotten by the world…
Hail Mary, full of grace…

Holy Mary, Mother of Life: Bless all who shelter pregnant mothers…
Hail Mary, full of grace…

Holy Mary, Mother of Life: Watch over children abandoned or uncared for…
Hail Mary, full of grace…

Holy Mary, Mother of Life: Look with compassion on single mothers who expect a child…
Hail Mary, full of grace…

Holy Mary, Mother of Life: Be a model of expectant joy for all your children…
Hail Mary, full of grace…

Holy Mary, Mother of Life: Hasten to proclaim the fruit of your womb to all peoples…
Hail Mary, full of grace…

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

Offer the Eucharistic Prayer Intention

Prayer Intention: That through our worthy reception of the Eucharist and frequent Eucharistic Adoration, Jesus will teach us to love sacrificially the least and neediest among us.

On the night before he suffered, he took bread, blessed it, broke it, gave it to his disciples, and said, Take this, all of you, and eat it. This is my body… When supper was ended he took a cup filled with wine, gave it to them, and said, Take this, all of you, and drink from it, for this is the cup of my blood. Strengthened by the Holy Eucharist, may we work to proclaim the Gospel of life and defend all who are endangered by the culture of death.

Read John 6:46-59

Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

Meditate on the Words of Eternal Life

Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you? What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.”
Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him. And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.”
As a result of this, many [of] his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him.
Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?”
Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”

Discounted tickets available until Friday, July 19^th at noon.

[Our] Bishops of the United States are calling for a three-year grassroots revival of devotion and belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. They believe that God wants to see a movement of Catholics across the United States, healed, converted, formed, and unified by an encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist—and sent out in mission “for the life of the world.”

These three years will culminate in the first National Eucharistic Congress in the United States in almost fifty years. Almost a hundred thousand Catholics will join together in Indianapolis for a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage toward the “source and summit” of our Catholic faith.

– National Eucharistic Revival

We hope you will join us as we renew the Church by coming together with Catholics across the United States to encounter our Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist. Learn more about this process at eucharisticrevival.org.

National Eucharistic Congress

Prayer for the Revival

My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I beg pardon for those who do not believe, nor adore, nor hope, nor love You.

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which He is offended. And, through the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You the conversion of sinners.

Our Lady of Fatima