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CV NEWS FEED // The 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage has officially been announced, and it is set to commence from where the 2024 Pilgrimage concluded: Indianapolis, Indiana.
The patroness of the route will be St. Katharine Drexel, according to an emailed press release from the Pilgrimage. She is the founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a religious order dedicated to serving Native Americans and African Americans.
The Perpetual Pilgrims, those accompanying Jesus in the Eucharist across the entire Drexel Route, will begin the cross-state journey on May 18, Pentecost Sunday, with Mass in Indianapolis. The route will conclude in Los Angeles during the celebration of the Feast of Corpus Christi in June.
The Pilgrimage is in need of eight young adult volunteers between the ages of 19 and 29 to serve as Perpetual Pilgrims, who will participate in volunteer service work along various stops on the route. Applications are due by November 1. Interested young adults can learn more here.
Two chaplains will also guide the Pilgrimage and accompany Jesus in the Eucharist along the route.
The 2024 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage included four separate routes that started in the four corners of the United States and traced a cross with their routes across the nation before all concluding in Indianapolis for the National Eucharistic Congress in July.
In the press release for the 2025 Pilgrimage, Sister Sophia Grace with the Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R., commented, “Jesus might not be walking through every street or even every state, but He is walking across our nation, and He is bringing His light, and as He walks, this light is fanning out behind Him.”
She added, “We might not be able to see it right now, but grace is being poured out on our country as never before, and hearts are being changed, healed, and reignited! And those who encounter Jesus or participate in the Pilgrimage are hopefully witnessing that nothing matters more than worshiping Him.”
