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This is an updated map showing the four routes of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to the National Eucharistic Congress in 2024. The pilgrimage launches from four points in the U.S. May 18-19 and converges eight weeks later in Indianapolis for the July 17-21 congress. (OSV News illustration/courtesy National Eucharistic Congress)

Eucharistic Pilgrimage kicks off May 18-19 with Masses, processions at iconic US sites

In 1776, Father Junipero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan missionary, dedicated a small mission church in San Francisco to St. Francis Assisi. On May 18, the mission of San Francisco de Asis, also known as Mission Dolores, will host an evening of Eucharistic adoration and prayer for the launch of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s western route, named for now St. Junipero Serra.

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Father Nicholas G. DuPre (center), associate pastor at St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Abbeville, Louisiana, leads parishioners in prayer as a teenager attempted to enter the church with a rifle during a first Communion Mass May 11, 2024.

Louisiana first Communion Mass disrupted by gunman

A first Communion Mass at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville, Louisiana, was disrupted May 11 after a teenager attempted to enter the church with a rifle. Parishioners prevented the young man from entering the church where 60 children were preparing to receive their first Communion.

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