The Eucharistic Revival:

In late 2019, a Pew Study indicated what many had long suspected. Few Catholics, approximately 30 percent, fully believe in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. This stark reality inspired the Bishops of the United States to action. More than an event or a program, they envisioned a true Revival to rediscover the source and summit of our Faith through a deep commitment of prayer, pilgrimage, and worship on the part of the entire Church in the United States.

The Bishops of the United States are calling for a three-year grassroots revival of devotion and belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. They believe that God wants to see a movement of Catholics across the United States, healed, converted, formed and unified by an encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist—and sent out on mission “for the life of the world.”

“A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26

These powerful words from the prophet of Ezekiel cut to the heart of what it means to experience a revival. To “revive” means “to return to life.” For many, the initial Eucharistic amazement that is experienced when receiving the Blessed Sacrament for the first time has become dim. Joy-filled expectation has been replaced with routine. For many a living and personal relationship with Jesus seems impossible. For others, such a relationship has become dulled or suffocated by other concerns.

Whether you’re a Catholic with a Eucharistic devotion spanning 50 years, someone who has drifted away from the faith, or a person who has never stepped foot in a Catholic Church, you are welcome here. This revival is a time to discover or renew a relationship with Jesus by encountering Him in the Blessed Sacrament, where He is always present and always seeking an encounter with you. We hope you join us on this journey.

Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore
Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more,
See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart
Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.
Seeing, touching, tasting are in thee deceived;
How says trusty hearing? that shall be believed;
What God's Son has told me, take for truth I do;
Truth himself speaks truly or there's nothing true
St. Thomas Aquinas (attr.), Adoro te devote; tr. Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Visit the National Eucharistic Revival Website
 

“This presence is called ‘real’ not to exclude the idea that the others are ‘real’ too, but rather to indicate presence par excellence, because it is substantial and through it Christ becomes present whole and entire, God and man.”
(Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei, 39)