One of the speakers, Brother Edward Mancuso of Belmont Abbey, talked about the importance of faith in defining good relationships.
“It is important to have friends who support your faith,” he said.
He shared the importance of the Eucharist in his life and how it led him to his vocation as a monk.
“The Eucharist started to play a defining role in my life when I went to college,” said Brother Mancuso of his time at St. Bonaventure University in New York.
He talked about the graces that come from receiving Christ in the Eucharist.
“Not everyone can attend Mass each day,” said Brother Mancuso, “but when possible, Jesus is waiting to energize your day.”
Christ in the Eucharist is a gift to us from the Lord, said Bishop Jugis, and it is not based on anything “we could have merited or deserved.”
“It is my hope that as you offer yourself to Christ you will be a blessing for your friends and family and that the Lord will choose some of you to offer yourselves as priests or as brothers or sisters,” said Bishop Jugis in his address to the pilgrims.
“Many good works come from a person who is offering himself to God,” he said.
Printed with permission from the Catholic News & Herald, newspaper from the Diocese of Charlotte.