BREAKING National Eucharistic Pilgrimage 2025 Cancels Festival in Los Angeles Following Police Consultation
The conclusion of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will take place in downtown Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, June 22. However, in light of recent immigration-related protests and police activity in the area, organizers have changed plans.
This year’s National Eucharistic Pilgrimage began May 18 in Indianapolis and traveled through several states on its way to Los Angeles.
The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will soon arrive in Los Angeles for the culmination of the three-year National Eucharistic Revival this weekend. The safety of all participants in the weekend events is of highest priority.
Due to the unstable situation in downtown Los Angeles, it has been decided to adjust the plan for the Corpus Christi Celebration on Sunday, June 22, 2025. The event will still happen, but it will look a little different: the Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels will be celebrated at 3pm, and the Eucharistic Procession will follow on the cathedral plaza (not in the streets), and there will be no festival after Benediction. The events on Friday and Saturday, June 20 and 21, 2025 will happen as originally planned.
The planned post-procession festival in the Cathedral Plaza has been cancelled.
Angelus News writes:
Lead organizer Jason Shanks, president of the National Eucharistic Congress, said the changes were made following conversations with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
“The decision to pivot the schedule for Sunday’s downtown Eucharistic procession and festival was made out of deep pastoral concern for the safety of the faithful and the city of Los Angeles."
Shanks said in the announcement that the 3 p.m. Mass, which will be presided by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., will go ahead as planned. He also said the changed schedule is “a sign that revival can’t be stopped by circumstance.”
In an email to staff of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Father Parker Sandoval, vice chancellor for ministerial services, said the changes were “due to the unstable situation in downtown Los Angeles” and that “the safety of all participants in the weekend events is of highest priority.”
Since the first mass raids by U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents June 6, the streets around the Cathedral — and the stretch of the 101 Freeway that it borders — have been the site of LA’s heaviest anti-immigration enforcement protests.
Cathedral pastor Msgr. Antonio Cacciapuoti told Angelus that in the early days of the protests, some protesters stopped to pray inside, while some others were seen on surveillance video tagging its walls with explicit graffiti.
Pilgrims are scheduled to arrive at Mission Basilica San Buenaventura on Friday, June 20 for a 1 p.m. Mass with Auxiliary Bishop Slawomir Szkredka.
Sources: National Eucharistic Pilgrimage
and Angeles News https://angelusnews.com/local/la-catholics/nep-cathedral-plans/
The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will soon arrive in Los Angeles for the culmination of the three-year National Eucharistic Revival this weekend. The safety of all participants in the weekend events is of highest priority.
Due to the unstable situation in downtown Los Angeles, it has been decided to adjust the plan for the Corpus Christi Celebration on Sunday, June 22, 2025. The event will still happen, but it will look a little different: the Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels will be celebrated at 3pm, and the Eucharistic Procession will follow on the cathedral plaza (not in the streets), and there will be no festival after Benediction. The events on Friday and Saturday, June 20 and 21, 2025 will happen as originally planned.
The planned post-procession festival in the Cathedral Plaza has been cancelled.
Angelus News writes:
Lead organizer Jason Shanks, president of the National Eucharistic Congress, said the changes were made following conversations with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
“The decision to pivot the schedule for Sunday’s downtown Eucharistic procession and festival was made out of deep pastoral concern for the safety of the faithful and the city of Los Angeles."
Shanks said in the announcement that the 3 p.m. Mass, which will be presided by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., will go ahead as planned. He also said the changed schedule is “a sign that revival can’t be stopped by circumstance.”
In an email to staff of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Father Parker Sandoval, vice chancellor for ministerial services, said the changes were “due to the unstable situation in downtown Los Angeles” and that “the safety of all participants in the weekend events is of highest priority.”
Since the first mass raids by U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents June 6, the streets around the Cathedral — and the stretch of the 101 Freeway that it borders — have been the site of LA’s heaviest anti-immigration enforcement protests.
Cathedral pastor Msgr. Antonio Cacciapuoti told Angelus that in the early days of the protests, some protesters stopped to pray inside, while some others were seen on surveillance video tagging its walls with explicit graffiti.
Pilgrims are scheduled to arrive at Mission Basilica San Buenaventura on Friday, June 20 for a 1 p.m. Mass with Auxiliary Bishop Slawomir Szkredka.
Sources: National Eucharistic Pilgrimage
and Angeles News https://angelusnews.com/local/la-catholics/nep-cathedral-plans/
https://lacatholics.org/eucharist/
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