Bishop Barron: Eucharistic Congress indispensable for
evangelization
(Vatican Radio) The 51st International Eucharistic Congress (IEC)
is taking place this week in Cebu, Philippines. The event – which takes place
every four years – brings together people from around the world to worship and
learn more about the Eucharist.
Bishop Robert Barron – an
Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, California – told Vatican Radio the event is
an “indispensable” tool of evangelization.
“You’ve got so many speakers
who are suggesting avenues that they’ve used – intellectual approaches,
practical approaches – and we all come together and listen to each other, and
that is very enlivening,” he said.
“I think these are
indispensable if we are trying to find new ways,” Bishop Barron said. “We
listen, watch…see what’s working and what isn’t working, both in terms of
instruction, and in terms of practicality.”
Pope Francis sent
a message to the meeting, but his schedule did not allow for a second
visit to the country in two years, after his 2015 Apostolic trip.
“When we first invited him,
and thought they are planning to come, we are happy! And then, the [2013 Bohol]
earthquake came, and [Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda] came, and there’s a lot of
disaster that happened, and when the Pope said I think I should go the
Philippines earlier, we understand,” said Archbishop Jose Palma, the Archbishop
of Cebu and President of the IEC.
“And I think, when we look
back, we can only be very pleased that this coming gives so much inspiration to
the people,” Archbishop Palma told Vatican Radio.
“We know that as a Church
leader – as the Vicar of Christ – he manifested to us the love of the Lord,” he
said. “Am I sorry? No, because what he did even manifests even more the love of
the Pope to our people.”
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