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Father Roger Landry, holding the Eucharist, leads the Eucharistic procession on the Columbia University campus on Nov. 12, 2023. (photo: Columbia Catholic Ministry)
By Father Roger Landry, EWTN News, May 5, 2024
Father Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, is ecclesiastical assistant to Aid to the Church in Need USA. Father Landry, a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, has been appointed by the U.S. bishops a “National Eucharistic Preacher.”
COMMENTARY: What the Church in the United States is doing in combining pilgrimages and Eucharistic processions is something that has never been attempted in the long history of the Catholic Church.
On the weekend on which the Catholic Church celebrates Pentecost and remembers how, filled with the Holy Spirit, the first disciples left the Upper Room, where Jesus had celebrated the first Eucharist 53 days earlier, to announce the Gospel that Jesus was indeed risen and alive, the Church in the United States, guided by the Holy Spirit, is going to be leaving our sanctuaries. The Church will be going out on mission, not only to proclaim that the Risen Lord Jesus is still very much alive and with us but, through word and witness, to show others how he is with us.
That’s what is going to be taking place during the 65-day National Eucharistic Pilgrimage that the Church is making throughout our country. …
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