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EUCHARISTIC CONGRESSES CONTRIBUTE TO NEW EVANGELISATION

VATICAN CITY, 11 NOV 2010 (VIS) - Today in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received
participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Committee for
International Eucharistic Congresses, who have completed preparations for the
next congress, which will take place in the Irish capital Dublin in 2012.

"International Eucharistic Congresses already have a long history in the
Church", the Holy Father noted. "They highlight the universal dimension of
celebration. Celebration is, in fact, always a feast of faith around the
Eucharistic Christ, the Christ of the supreme sacrifice for humanity, in which
not only the faithful from a particular Church or nation participate, but,
insofar as possible, from all over the world. It is the Church that gathers
around her Lord and God".

"The task of Eucharistic Congresses, especially at the current time, is also
that of making a special contribution to new evangelisation, promoting
mystagogical evangelisation which is accomplished in the school of the
prayerful Church, on the basis of the liturgy and through the liturgy. But each
Congress also contains a new evangelising impulse in a more strictly missionary
sense, so much so that the binomial term 'Eucharist-mission' has become part of
the guidelines suggested by the Holy See".

The Holy Father completed his remarks with some liturgical-pastoral advice. "It
is important", he said, "that each Eucharistic Congress should,
in accordance
with the reforming spirit of the Council, involve and integrate both 'extra
missam' expressions of Eucharistic worship which have their roots in popular
devotion, and associations of faithful which, in various ways, draw inspiration
form the Eucharist. All forms of Eucharistic devotion, also recommended and
encouraged by the Encyclical 'Ecclesia de Eucharistia' and the Post-Synodal
Exhortation 'Sacramentum caritatis', must be harmoniously brought together in a
Eucharistic ecclesiology oriented towards communion".
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