What is the Eucharistic Revival?

Our world is hurting; yet, amid our fallen world, Christ is present. Jesus radically tells us in John 6:41 that “the bread that I give is my flesh for the life of the world.” The Revival is a grassroots effort to bring this radical, life-giving promise to the world, inspiring a “movement of Catholics across the United States who are healed, converted, formed, and unified by an encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist.”

We are now in the Year of Parish Revival, fostering “Eucharistic devotion at the parish level, strengthening our liturgical life through faithful celebration of the Mass, Eucharistic Adoration, missions, resources, preaching, and organic movements of the Holy Spirit.” This will lead into in the first National Eucharistic Congress in the United States in almost fifty years from July 17-21, 2024 in Indianapolis, which will be followed by a year of going out on mission “for the life of the world.” 

40 Hours of Devotion Schedule

Forty Hours Devotion is a practice of continuous prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. Stop by any parish any hour – day or night – when they are offering this devotion to spend time in adoration. Some parishes may also offer Liturgy of the Hours, preaching, fellowship opportunities, and more. Consult parish websites and bulletins for full details as well as benediction and exposition times.

Parishes are Listed in Order by Date

2024

MARCH

St. Joseph, South Bend: March 17-19 
St. Joseph, Mishawaka: March 17-19 
St. John the Evangelist, Goshen: March 17-19
Queen of Angels, Fort Wayne: March 17-19

APRIL

St. Vincent de Paul, Fort Wayne: April 14-16 
Blessed Sacrament, Albion: April 14-16
Our Lady of Good Hope, Apr 21-23
St. Adalbert, South Bend: April 21-23 
St. Robert Bellarmine, North Manchester: April 21-23 
Sacred Heart, Notre Dame: April 28-30

MAY

St. Joseph, LaGrange: May 12-14 

JUNE

St. Anthony of Padua, Angola: June 2-4
St. John the Baptist, South Bend: June 23-25 

Every parish in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend is participating in this initiative. If a parish is not listed, its 40 Hours of Devotion has passed.

Get involved! Parish and community events

Jesus longs for you to be healed, converted, formed, and unified by an encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist. Find parish and community happenings for the Eucharistic Revival on the diocesan events calendar.

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I AM HERE | Read Eucharistic Testimonies

Be inspired by stories of Eucharistic Devotion. To read stories provided by Catholics across the country, visit iamhere.org/parishes. Select “Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend” to read stories provided by members of our diocese.

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Parish Adoration Times

Below is a listing of submitted times throughout the Parish Year that parishes will be offering adoration. To have your parish’s adoration times added to this list, email [email protected]. This listing is alphabetized first by city name then by parish name.

AUBURN

Immaculate Conception, 500 East 7th Street
Tuesday: 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. in Chapel
5-6 p.m. in Church with Rosary at 6 p.m. followed by Mass at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.

BLUFFTON

St. Joseph, 1300 N Main St
Tuesday: 7-8 a.m.
Wednesday: 6-7 p.m.
First Friday of every month: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Church is open at all hours for private prayer

BREMEN

St. Dominic, 803 W Bike St
Wednesday: 6 – 9 p.m.
First Friday of each month: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

CHURUBUSCO

St. John Bosco, 220 N Main St
Thursday: 3-10 p.m.
One hour before every weekday Mass and Saturday morning Mass

COLUMBIA CITY

St. Paul of the Cross, 315 S Line St
Sunday: one hour before each Mass
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 7 – 8 a.m.
Wednesday, Saturday: 4-5 p.m.
Friday: 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.

CULVER

St. Mary of the Lake, 124 College Ave
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

FREEMONT

St. Paul’s Catholic Chapel, 8780 E. 700 N.
Wednesday: following the 9 a.m. Mass

FORT WAYNE

Most Precious Blood, 1515 Barthold St
Tuesday: 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, 10700 Aboite Center Rd
Tuesday: 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Saturday: 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

St. Jude, 2155 Randallia
24 Hour Perpetual Adoration in Chapel

St. Therese, 2304 Lower Huntington Rd
Tuesday/Thursday: 6-9 p.m.
15 minutes before each Mass throughout the Parish Year

St. Vincent de Paul – Oratory of St. Mary Magadelene, 1711 E Wallen Rd
24/7 Eucharistic Adoration is offered via key card access. To obtain a key card, contact the parish.

Queen of Angels, 1500 W State Blvd
Tuesday: 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.
First Saturday of each month: 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.

GENEVA

St. Mary of the Presentation, 5790 E 1100 S
Thursday: 4-5 p.m.

GRANGER

St. Pius X, 52553 N Fir Rd
Friday: 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday: 8:30-9:30 a.m.

KENDALLVILLE

Immaculate Conception, 312 E Diamond St
Tuesday/Thursday/Friday: 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
1st Tuesday of the month: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. with Holy Hour from 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.

MISHAWAKA

St. Monica, 222 W Mishawaka Ave
Thursday: 6-7 p.m.
Saturday: 9-10 a.m.
During Advent and Lent: Tuesdays from 6-7 p.m.

Queen of Peace, 4508 Vistula Rd
Monday – Friday: 7 a.m. – 8 a.m.
Saturday: 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

NEW HAVEN

St. John the Baptist, 943 Powers St.
Thursday: noon – 8 p.m.
Saturday: 7:45 – 8:45 a.m.

SOUTH BEND

Corpus Christi, 2822 Corpus Christi Dr
Sunday: 1-8 p.m.
Monday/Wednesday/Friday: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Tuesday/Thursday: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Even when the Blessed Sacrament is not exposed, the adoration chapel is open for personal prayer 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 12 noon – 8 p.m. on Sunday.

St. Adalbert, 2505 W Grace St
Thursday: 7:30 a.m. – 9 p.m.

St. Anthony de Padua, 2310 E. Jefferson Blvd.
Tuesday: 3-5 p.m., 6-11 p.m.
Thursday: 6-11 p.m.
Saturday: 9-10 a.m.

St. Casimir, 1302 W Dunham St
Friday: 5 – 6 p.m.

St. Joseph, 226 N Hill St
Thursday: 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday: 8:30-9:30 a.m.

St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr, 415 N Brookfield St
First Friday of every month: 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

St. Thérèse Little Flower, 54191 N Ironwood Rd
Monday/Wednesday/Friday: 9-9:30 a.m. with confession
Saturday: 8:30-9:30 a.m. with confession

WARSAW

Sacred Heart, 125 N. Harrison St.
Thursday: 1 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Holy Thursday Seven Churches Visitation

At the end of the Holy Thursday Mass, the Eucharist is placed on a temporary “altar of repose” away from the sanctuary so that the faithful can engage in quiet prayer and adoration. The Seven Churches Visitation is a tradition that grew out of this. As part of this tradition, the faithful “remain here and keep watch with me” (Mt 26:38) at seven different churches that correspond to each of the seven places, or “stations,” that were made by Jesus between the Last Supper in the Upper Room to His crucifixion on the cross.

Eucharistic Congress

JULY 17-21, 2024 | INDIANAPOLIS, IN

We know what happens when two or more are gathered in the Lord’s name — but what happens with 80,000?! You don’t want to miss the 10th National Eucharistic Congress as the Church gathers to ask him to revive our love of the Eucharist. Adults, youth and family are invited. Your life — and our Church — will never be the same! Day passes and full-event passes are now on sale.

Go Deeper! Resources and Self-Pilgrimage

At its core, the Eucharistic Revival is a movement of people uniquely responding to Christ’s invitation through and to the Eucharist. Wherever you are at on your journey, YOU are invited to enter ever more deeply into the healing, conversation, formation, and relationship that is found in our Eucharistic God. God longs to go deeper with you.

As you pilgrimage through this Year of Parish Revival, you are invited to download a pilgrimage passport to help keep you accountable as you journey deeper with Jesus. After you complete six or more activities, bring your passport to Good Shepherd Books & Gifts in Fort Wayne or Full of Grace Gifts in Mishawaka to receive a free gift.

Parish Year Pilgrimage Passport – stay accountable and earn a gift!

Watch: Free Video Content

Read: Free Literature

Listen: Free Audio Content

Attend: Opportunities for Eucharistic Encounter

Resources for Children

There are many, many ways to instill a knowledge of and a relationship with the Blessed Sacrament within our children. Below are a few ideas to get started. Consider inviting your child to learn or try something new, then track progress on a pilgrimage passport to earn a free gift.

Watch the following from formed.org – Many parishes in our diocese offer a free formed subscription. To see if your parish is one, visit formed.org/signup

  • “The Eucharist as Sacrifice and Communion” found on formed.org. (8 min)
  • “The Eucharist for Little Children” found on formed.org. (20 min)
  • Brother Francis Cartoon: “The Bread of Life: Celebrating the Eucharist!” (28 Min)

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Ideas for Families and Individuals

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How are you creating space in your life to come face-to-face with the Living God present in the Eucharist? As this Year of Parish Revival creates space for an invitation to learn more about God, you are also invited to encounter God Himself truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. Below are some ideas to get you started.

Use your pilgrimage passport card to help maintain a commitment to the Eucharistic encounter and to earn a free gift.

  • Attend talks being offered at parishes during their 40 Hours of Devotion. Find the full schedule on this page.
  • Reunite with Christ in the Sacrament of Reconciliation at least once in Lent and once in Advent.
  • View a Eucharistic Miracles exhibit.  Find all Eucharistic Revival events here.
  • Make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament outside of a structured event.
  • Participate in a Eucharistic procession.
  • Attend five or more daily Masses
  • Sign up for an Adoration time slot at your parish. 

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Ideas for Families and Individuals

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Explore this listing of free audio resources to help you learn about what the church teaches about the Eucharist and how it can transform your life. Track your completed formation on a pilgrimage passport card to earn a free gift.

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Ideas for Families and Individuals

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Explore this listing of free literature to help you learn about what the church teaches about the Eucharist and how it can transform your life. Track your completed formation, be it from one of these free resources or from a book on the Eucharist, on a pilgrimage passport card to earn a free gift.

Looking for more? Find devotionals, more encyclicals, documents from the church fathers, apologetical resources, and more below:

Ideas for Families and Individuals

passport For Teens & Adults

passport For Children

Explore this listing of free video resources to help you learn about what the church teaches about the Eucharist and how it can transform your life. Track your completed formation on a pilgrimage passport card to earn a free gift.

Looking for more? Click below:

Ideas for Families and Individuals

passport For Teens & Adults

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What if you let this year be life-changing? What if you went one step deeper in your “yes!” to God, challenging yourself to be formed further and to Encounter a Eucharistic God in a new way. Our world is hurting. We all need healing, yet many of us are separated from the very source of our strength. Jesus Christ invites us to return to the source and summit of our faith in the celebration of the Eucharist. 

During this Year of Parish Revival, we invite you to make a personal commitment to intentional encounter with our Eucharistic God. Explore resources on this page to find many ways to begin.

Then, if you’d like, download a pilgrimage passport to help keep yourself accountable. When you complete six or more items on the passport, bring it to Good Shepherd Books & Gifts in Fort Wayne or Full of Grace Gifts in Mishawaka to receive a free gift. 

There are two passport options: one geared for children, and one geared for teens and adults. Simply download the passport that seems most appropriate.

For Teens & Adults

For Children

National Eucharistic Pilgrimage

JULY 5-10, 2024

Thousands followed Christ throughout his earthly ministry. Since his Resurrection, countless Christians have traveled to holy sites in order to connect concretely with places where heaven and earth have touched.  This summer, you are invited to participate in a portion of a coast-to-coast pilgrimage with Our Eucharistic Lord! The pilgrimage will pass through our diocese from July 5-10, 2024. More information to come.

Missionary Sending

One of the four pillars of the National Eucharistic Revival is Missionary Sending:  Go out and bring Jesus to the world. The Revival desires to form Eucharistic Missionaries to “become the hands and feet of Jesus to bring his Good News to the mission field of their neighborhood and parish.” The Church teaches that every one of us is called to evangelize, to share the Good News of Jesus. 

Church Teaching on Evangelization

Evangelization Resources for Individuals

You can be a Eucharistic Missionary. 

Learn what the church teaches about the precious gift of the Most Holy Eucharist and discover practical ways to share this with those in your community.

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“The Church is an evangelizer, but she begins by being evangelized herself. She is the community of believers, the community of hope lived and communicated, the community of brotherly love, and she needs to listen unceasingly to what she must believe, to her reasons for hoping, to the new commandment of love. She is the People of God immersed in the world, and often tempted by idols, and she always needs to hear the proclamation of the ‘mighty works of God’ which converted her to the Lord; she always needs to be called together afresh by Him and reunited. In brief, this means that she has a constant need of being evangelized, if she wishes to retain freshness, vigor and strength in order to proclaim the Gospel. The Second Vatican Council recalled and the 1974 Synod vigorously took up again this theme of the Church which is evangelized by constant conversion and renewal, in order to evangelize the world with credibility.” – Pope St. Pope Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi 15

“Those who sincerely accept the Good News, through the power of this acceptance and of shared faith therefore gather together in Jesus’ name in order to seek together the kingdom, build it up and live it. They make up a community which is in its turn evangelizing. The command to the Twelve to go out and proclaim the Good News is also valid for all Christians, though in a different way. It is precisely for this reason that Peter calls Christians ‘a people set apart to sing the praises of God,’ those marvelous things that each one was able to hear in his own language. Moreover, the Good News of the kingdom which is coming and which has begun is meant for all people of all times. Those who have received the Good News and who have been gathered by it into the community of salvation can and must communicate and spread it.” – Pope St. Paul VI, Evangelli Nuntiandi 13

“The specific character of catechesis, as distinct from the initial conversion – bringing proclamation of the Gospel, has the twofold objective of maturing the initial faith and of educating the true disciple of Christ by means of a deeper and more systematic knowledge of the person and the message of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But in catechetical practice, this model order must allow for the fact that the initial evangelization has often not taken place. A certain number of children baptized in infancy come for catechesis in the parish without receiving any other initiation into the faith and still without any explicit personal attachment to Jesus Christ; they only have the capacity to believe placed within them by Baptism and the presence of the Holy Spirit; and opposition is quickly created by the prejudices of their non-Christian family background or of the positivist spirit of their education. In addition, there are other children who have not been baptized and whose parents agree only at a later date to religious education: for practical reasons, the catechumenal stage of these children will often be carried out largely in the course of the ordinary catechesis. Again, many pre-adolescents and adolescents who have been baptized and been given a systematic catechesis and the sacraments still remain hesitant for a long time about committing their whole lives to Jesus Christ – if, moreover, they do not attempt to avoid religious education in the name of their freedom. Finally, even adults are not safe from temptations to doubt or to abandon their faith, especially as a result of their unbelieving surroundings. This means that ‘catechesis’ must often concern itself not only with nourishing and teaching the faith, but also with arousing it unceasingly with the help of grace, with opening the heart, with converting, and with preparing total adherence to Jesus Christ on the part of those who are still on the threshold of faith. This concern will in part decide the tone, the language and the method of catechesis.” – Pope St. John Paul II, Catechesi Tradendae 19

“Christ, the great Prophet, who proclaimed the Kingdom of His Father both by the testimony of His life and the power of His words, continually fulfills His prophetic office until the complete manifestation of glory. He does this not only through the hierarchy who teach in His name and with His authority, but also through the laity whom He made His witnesses and to whom He gave understanding of the faith (sensu fidei) and an attractiveness in speech so that the power of the Gospel might shine forth in their daily social and family life. They conduct themselves as children of the promise, and thus strong in faith and in hope they make the most of the present, and with patience await the glory that is to come. Let them not, then, hide this hope in the depths of their hearts, but even in the program of their secular life let them express it by a continual conversion and by wrestling ‘against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness’.

Just as the sacraments of the New Law, by which the life and the apostolate of the faithful are nourished, prefigure a new heaven and a new earth, so too the laity go forth as powerful proclaimers of a faith in things to be hoped for, when they courageously join to their profession of faith a life springing from faith. This evangelization, that is, this announcing of Christ by a living testimony as well as by the spoken word, takes on a specific quality and a special force in that it is carried out in the ordinary surroundings of the world.

In connection with the prophetic function is that state of life which is sanctified by a special sacrament obviously of great importance, namely, married and family life. For where Christianity pervades the entire mode of family life, and gradually transforms it, one will find there both the practice and an excellent school of the lay apostolate. In such a home husbands and wives find their proper vocation in being witnesses of the faith and love of Christ to one another and to their children. The Christian family loudly proclaims both the present virtues of the Kingdom of God and the hope of a blessed life to come. Thus by its example and its witness it accuses the world of sin and enlightens those who seek the truth.

Consequently, even when preoccupied with temporal cares, the laity can and must perform a work of great value for the evangelization of the world. For even if some of them have to fulfill their religious duties on their own, when there are no sacred ministers or in times of persecution; and even if many of them devote all their energies to apostolic work; still it remains for each one of them to cooperate in the external spread and the dynamic growth of the Kingdom of Christ in the world. Therefore, let the laity devotedly strive to acquire a more profound grasp of revealed truth, and let them insistently beg of God the gift of wisdom.” –  Lumen Gentium (Decree of the Second Vatican Council on the Church), 35

“In virtue of their baptism, all the members of the People of God have become missionary disciples (cf. Mt 28:19). All the baptized, whatever their position in the Church or their level of instruction in the faith, are agents of evangelization, and it would be insufficient to envisage a plan of evangelization to be carried out by professionals while the rest of the faithful would simply be passive recipients. The new evangelization calls for personal involvement on the part of each of the baptized. Every Christian is challenged, here and now, to be actively engaged in evangelization; indeed, anyone who has truly experienced God’s saving love does not need much time or lengthy training to go out and proclaim that love. Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she has encountered the love of God in Christ Jesus: we no longer say that we are ‘disciples’ and ‘missionaries’, but rather that we are always ‘missionary disciples’. If we are not convinced, let us look at those first disciples, who, immediately after encountering the gaze of Jesus, went forth to proclaim him joyfully: ‘We have found the Messiah!’ (Jn 1:41). The Samaritan woman became a missionary immediately after speaking with Jesus and many Samaritans come to believe in him ‘because of the woman’s testimony’ (Jn 4:39). So too, Saint Paul, after his encounter with Jesus Christ, ‘immediately proclaimed Jesus’ (Acts 9:20; cf. 22:6-21). So what are we waiting for?” – Pope Francis, Evangelli Gaudium, 120

“In catechesis too, we have rediscovered the fundamental role of the first announcement or kerygma, which needs to be the center of all evangelizing activity and all efforts at Church renewal. The kerygma is trinitarian. The fire of the Spirit is given in the form of tongues and leads us to believe in Jesus Christ who, by his death and resurrection, reveals and communicates to us the Father’s infinite mercy. On the lips of the catechist the first proclamation must ring out over and over: ‘Jesus Christ loves you; he gave his life to save you; and now he is living at your side every day to enlighten, strengthen and free you. ‘This first proclamation is called ‘first’ not because it exists at the beginning and can then be forgotten or replaced by other more important things. It is first in a qualitative sense because it is the principal proclamation, the one which we must hear again and again in different ways, the one which we must announce one way or another throughout the process of catechesis, at every level and moment. For this reason too, ‘the priest – like every other member of the Church – ought to grow in awareness that he himself is continually in need of being evangelized’. – Pope Francis, Evangelli Gaudium, 164

“Friendship with Jesus will also lead you to bear witness to the faith wherever you are, even when it meets with rejection or indifference. We cannot encounter Christ and not want to make him known to others. So do not keep Christ to yourselves! Share with others the joy of your faith. The world needs the witness of your faith, it surely needs God. I think that the presence here of so many young people, coming from all over the world, is a wonderful proof of the fruitfulness of Christ’s command to the Church: ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to the whole creation’ (Mk 16:15). You too have been given the extraordinary task of being disciples and missionaries of Christ in other lands and countries filled with young people who are looking for something greater and, because their heart tells them that more authentic values do exist, they do not let themselves be seduced by the empty promises of a lifestyle which has no room for God”  – Pope Benedict XVI,  Homily for World Youth Day, 2011.

“Since, like all the Christian faithful, lay persons are designated by God for the apostolate through baptism and confirmation, they are bound by the general obligation and possess the right as individuals, or joined in associations, to work so that the divine message of salvation is made known and accepted by all persons everywhere in the world. This obligation is even more compelling in those circumstances in which only through them can people hear the gospel and know Christ.” – Code of Canon Law, Canon 225

Eucharistic Congress

JULY 17-21, 2024 | INDIANAPOLIS, IN

We know what happens when two or more are gathered in the Lord’s name — but what happens with 80,000?! You don’t want to miss the 10th National Eucharistic Congress as the Church gathers to ask him to revive our love of the Eucharist. Adults, youth and family are invited. Your life — and our Church — will never be the same! Day passes and full-event passes are now on sale.