The 2025 Eucharistic Pilgrimage
A blessed procession
A blessed procession
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From its inception, the National Eucharistic Revival was always about more than gathering Catholics for a one-time event in Indianapolis. What began as an initiative aimed at fostering a deeper understanding of the Eucharist among the faithful has become a movement leading to the mobilization of thousands of Catholics in bearing witness to our faith in Christ in the public square.
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From its inception, the National Eucharistic Revival was always about more than gathering Catholics for a one-time event in Indianapolis. What began as an initiative aimed at fostering a deeper understanding of the Eucharist among the faithful has become a movement leading to the mobilization of thousands of Catholics in bearing witness to our faith in Christ in the public square.
As with the Eucharistic pilgrimage routes leading up to the Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis in 2024, Catholics joined together once again to take Christ’s Eucharistic Presence to the streets, towns, and cities across the U.S. More than 1,000 members of the faithful joined Archbishop Charles C. Thompson for Mass in Indianapolis on May 18, 2025 to kick off the 2025 pilgrimage.
Over the course of the 3,300-mile-long journey, eight Perpetual Pilgrims carried Christ’s Eucharistic Presence, passing through 10 states, 20 Catholic dioceses and four Eastern Catholic eparchies. On the journey, faithful Catholics joined the pilgrims in a variety of activities planned by each of the dioceses and eparchies. These visits featured daily Mass, Eucharistic adoration, Eucharistic processions and caravans, witness talks, and fellowship meals with the Perpetual Pilgrims. Other activities included:
- A prayer stop where Father Marquette first celebrated Mass within the Diocese of Peoria 350 years ago
- A prayer stop at the location of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s baptism in the Diocese of Peoria
- Eucharistic adoration service with music by Irish tenor Mark Forrest in the Diocese of Dubuque
- Mass at Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine in the Diocese of Oklahoma City
- Prayer stops at Corpus Christi Parish in Pacific Palisades, which was destroyed by the Jan. 7 Palisades wildfire and Sacred Heart Parish in Altadena, which survived the Eaton fire
- Prayer stops at the first mission in the Los Angeles area established by St. Junipero Serra in 1771 and the last mission he established in 1782.
The Eucharistic Pilgrimage concluded at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles on June 22, 35 days after the pilgrimage left Indianapolis. Mass for the Feast of Corpus Christi was celebrated by U.S. apostolic nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre, with Los Angeles Archbishop José Gómez serving as the homilist. Also participating was Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston, Minn., leader of the Eucharistic revival for the USCCB.
The more than 3,000 people who packed the cathedral for the final Mass also participated in a Eucharistic procession that made its way through the cathedral plaza. At the procession’s conclusion, Archbishop Gómez turned in four directions and blessed the city of Los Angeles.
