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The National Eucharistic Congress which gathered more than 50,000 Catholics together last week in Indianapolis was “powerful,” “moving,” and filled with “extraordinary reverence,” according to religious sisters, a priest, a seminarian, and a bishop who attended the culminating event in the U.S.
“The common denominator that ran through all of the liturgical encounter was reverence; that we were recognizing God as our Lord, in silence and in song,” he said. “St. Augustine is famously quoted as saying, ‘Only the lover sings,’ and the only proper response to the love of God is to sing with our hearts.”
“Just imagine this football stadium filled with people, and when our Lord comes out, the lights are out, it's dark, and there's just light shining on the monstrance, and the place is quiet. These 50,000 people are adoring our Lord silently,” she said. More than 100 sisters of the Dominican Sisters of Mary Mother of the Eucharist attended the congress. Sister Mary Michael Carlton, their Vicaress General, recalled that there was a natural friendliness of attendees toward whoever they encountered — workers, locals, homeless people.
“People that were in their office buildings and people who were in their shops and their restaurants; they saw this happening,” he noted. “People in these jam-packed hallways, trying to scramble from one session to the next, dropped to their knees,” he recalled. “They shouted out, ‘Jesus is coming,’ and dropped to their knees and waited and prayed until the Blessed Sacrament had walked past them.”
“I do think powerful conversions were happening at the Congress itself,” she added. “And these people who attended will go back to their parishes and start their own revivals. They'll start drawing people back to the faith in their families or in their local communities that haven't been to Mass in a long time.”
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