CHARLOTTE — The 15th annual Eucharistic Congress continued Saturday, Sept. 7, with a Eucharistic procession through Charlotte, starting at St. Peter Church and ending inside the Charlotte Convention Center.
Thousands of faithful joined in the procession, led by first communicants from across the Diocese of Charlotte and Bishop Peter Jugis carrying the Blessed Sacrament. Priests, deacons, religious orders, sodalities and lay groups also featured in the hour-and-a-half long procession that wound through the streets of uptown Charlotte.
The procession was so large this year that it took 45 minutes just for all of the people to enter the convention center. An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people were expected to attend the annual event.
— Catholic News Herald. Photos by SueAnn Howell, Doreen Sugierski and Bill Washington.
Our Eucharistic Congress brings us together again this year as one family in Christ. The Eucharist makes our unity in Christ stronger, a unity which begins at our baptism. Many though we are, we partake of the one Eucharist, and we are one body in Christ, as St. Paul reminds us (1 Cor 10:17). The Eucharistic Congress is a wonderful expression of the unity of all the faithful of the Diocese of Charlotte.
Our Eucharistic Congress brings us together again this year as one family in Christ. The Eucharist makes our unity in Christ stronger, a unity which begins at our baptism. Many though we are, we partake of the one Eucharist, and we are one body in Christ, as St. Paul reminds us (1 Cor 10:17). The Eucharistic Congress is a wonderful expression of the unity of all the faithful of the Diocese of Charlotte.