Denver, CO, February 18, 2025. Once again, Catholics from across the country are invited to partake in the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. Today, pilgrimage organizers have released the full map of the St. Katharine Drexel Route. A team of eight Perpetual Pilgrims along with a few chaplains, recently selected to accompany our Eucharistic Lord on the Drexel Route, will travel the entire length of the journey. Last year’s National Eucharistic Pilgrimage comprised four routes and reached over 250,000 people. 

The Drexel Route will begin with a Mass of Thanksgiving in Indianapolis on May 18, 2025. From there, the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will continue for 36 days, traveling approximately 3,300 miles across the Midwest and Southwest regions of the United States. Twenty dioceses and four eparchies will host pilgrimage events on the way to the conclusion in Los Angeles on the feast of Corpus Christi (June 22, 2025). 

The Drexel Route is planning to make many unique stops, including a visit to the Tomb of Archbishop Fulton Sheen in Peoria, IL, the Shrine of Blessed Stanley Rother in Oklahoma City, and missions in Southern California. A Eucharistic Procession beginning at the baseball field from the movie "Field of Dreams" will take place as part of the events in Iowa. This year’s pilgrimage will again focus on Eucharistic encounters with marginalized communities, bringing the Blessed Sacrament to assisted living facilities, food banks, a juvenile detention center, a hospital, and a federal prison along the route.

In honor of the Jubilee Year of Hope, there will be an additional focus on Eucharistic healing. Events are planned in Wichita to honor the victims of the plane crash and their families, at the border of Mexico with a special Benediction and prayers for all migrants and refugees, and in Los Angeles, where organizers hope to bring our Eucharistic Lord to the communities impacted by the wildfires.

Registration and a full listing of events in each participating diocese will be posted later this spring for anyone who wishes to travel with our Eucharistic Lord as a day pilgrim or celebrate our shared faith with the Perpetual Pilgrims at milestones along the route. "We are thrilled to be gearing up for the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. We trust that God has profound blessings and graces in store for us as we journey with Jesus through cities and towns nationwide again this summer," said Jason Shanks, President of the National Eucharistic Congress, Inc.

Media members are invited to attend a virtual press conference focusing solely on the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage on Wednesday, Feb 26th at 1:00pm ET. You can register for the press conference by following this link. Further information for the Drexel Route can be found at www.eucharisticpilgrimage.org. 

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