Posted on 04/18/2023 7:08:05 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Archdiocese of Chicago is expected to restrict the exposition of the Eucharist during a national Eucharistic pilgrimage that will traverse the Chicago region next year, ahead of the Eucharistic Congress scheduled for next July.
The anticipated restriction comes amid differences of emphasis and approach among U.S. bishops over the Church’s Eucharistic revival process, now underway, and the $14 million Eucharistic Congress planned for 2024 — especially over the revival’s emphasis on adoration of the Eucharist.
While Cardinal Blase Cupich has argued that an emphasis on adoration could distract from catechesis about the importance of the Mass, Bishop Andrew Cozzens has stressed a unified vision between Eucharistic adoration and the worship of God in the Mass.
According to three senior Church officials close to the Eucharistic pilgrimage, the Chicago archdiocese has told organizers of the Eucharistic pilgrimage that, while pilgrims may travel through the archdiocese during their processional walk to Indianapolis, they are expected to reserve the Eucharist in a ciborium, rather than process with the Eucharist exposed in a monstrance, as the pilgrimage will do in other areas of the country.
A source with knowledge of the pilgrimage planning said that when pilgrims traverse through Chicago in the summer of 2024, the archdiocese will conduct a Mass at Holy Name Cathedral, followed by a Eucharistic procession led by Cardinal Cupich — but that the Eucharist will otherwise be expected to be reserved as pilgrims travel.
“He told them they could go through Chicago, but they couldn’t expose the Blessed Sacrament while they were walking. That seemed to be the compromise that they got about coming at all,” according to one senior Church official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.
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Why am I not surprised?!
Cupich is a coward who won’t admit his actual beliefs. Say it out loud Cardinal: is there a real presence of God in the Eucharist or not? Otherwise shut up and let the believers act on their beliefs. He won’t. Just another leftist out to destroy institutions.
Note what goes missing in these, for example:
https://www.chicagocatholic.com/cardinal-blase-j.-cupich/-/article/2020/08/05/the-miracle-of-the-eucharist
https://www.chicagocatholic.com/cardinal-blase-j.-cupich/-/article/2021/09/15/the-meaning-of-the-eucharist
They sure don’t want to interfere with the Democrat’s national convention in August. No sirreeeeee!
Haven’t Eucharistic processions been around since Jesus was a toddler?
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