The National Eucharistic Congress Highlights Traditions of Byzantine Catholics, by Adriana Azarian 

The National Eucharistic Congress and Pilgrimage is introducing pilgrims to Byzantine Catholic Eucharistic traditions, with its emphasis on the mystical nature of the Holy Eucharist. Two Byzantine churches and one Byzantine monastery participated in the pilgrimage, while the congress will offer two opportunities to attend Divine Liturgy.

“I think in a world that is moving so fast forward, the Eastern Catholic Church looks backward, and anytime we go backwards, that’s when we get most creative ideas to go forward,” Father Andrew Summerson, pastor of St. Mary’s Byzantine Church in Whiting, Indiana, told the Register.

Mike Aquilina, author of The Fathers of the Church: An Introduction to the First Christian Teachers and other books on the early Church, spoke to pilgrims on July 1 at St. Mary’s Byzantine Church, a participating church on the pilgrimage, about the early Church teachings on the liturgy and the Holy Eucharist. …

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