They brought their rosaries, singing voices, prayer intentions, walking shoes, strollers for the little ones, and love for Jesus. They were a public witness of their Catholic faith on city streets throughout Central Illinois. They experienced the love of Christ in a tangible way.

The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, an unprecedented pilgrimage in which Catholics prayed and publicly followed Jesus in their cities through Eucharistic processions, took place in seven cities in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois July 8-12. Scenes of hundreds of Catholics - bishops, priests, religious, and the lay faithful – participated at the stops, in what was called “our national Emmaus moment,” after the biblical passage in which Jesus walked with two of his disciples along the road to Emmaus.

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