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On June 7, 2024, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will be stopping in Baton Rouge on its route to the National Eucharistic Congress taking place on July 17-21, 2024, in Indianapolis. 

Bishop Michael Duca writes a letter to the faithful announcing the beginning of the Parish Year of Revival within the three year diocesan and national Eucharistic Revival.

Eucharistic adoration is perhaps one of the greatest gifts the Catholic Church offers, allowing adorers to spend private time with the Lord.

Bishop Michael G. Duca leads a Corpus Christi procession in front of St. Joseph Cathedral on June 19. The procession on the feast day of Corpus Christi circled the block around the cathedral. The feast day also marked the beginning of a nationwide Eucharastic Revival. Pastors throughout the Diocese of Baton Rouge read a letter from the bishop discussing the spiritual impact and opportunities of the Eucharastic Revival. Photo by Richard Meek | The Catholic Commentator

Father Brent Maher, pastor of St. Agnes Church in Baton Rouge, leads a eucharastic procession following Mass on June 19, the feast of Corpus Christi. Churches throughout the Diocese of Baton Rouge celebrated the feast day with a Corpus Christi procession. Photo by Richard Meek | The Catholic Commentator

It is with great hope and excitement that on this Solemnity of Corpus Christi I announce, in union with the other Bishops of the United States, the beginning of the National Eucharistic Revival, a three-year initiative that aims to renew the Church by rekindling a living relationship with Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.

The Diocese of Baton Rouge announced through its website the three-year Eucharistic Revival in the diocese will begin on the feast of Corpus Christi, June 19, with an inaugural Mass and procession beginning at 10:30 a.m. at St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge. The United Conference of Catholic Bishops has called for a three-year grassroots revival of devotion and belief in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.