For the past year, the Catholic Church in America has focused on a renewal of faith in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. Thousands of people from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the Diocese of Covington gathered last Saturday at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral to celebrate Mass with those pilgrims who have made their way across the country to attend the Eucharistic Congress this week in Indianapolis. Special programs and activities in various parishes and dioceses have taken place over this year in preparation for the Eucharistic Congress.
    
If you do not have tickets to the Congress, I do not think there are any left. But I do encourage all of us to take special care to pray for the Congress and for the Catholic people of the United States, that they might all come to a deeper faith in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. I also invite you to take time to stop in church, here or in other parishes, to spend time before the Blessed Sacrament, meditating on Jesus’ loving and merciful presence there.