The U.S. Bishops launched a three-year eucharistic revival that will culminate with the National Eucharistic Congress 2024 in Indianapolis.
Bishop Andrew Cozzens, chairman of the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, gives the mission and vision of the National Eucharistic Revival. (The Revival was officially launched on Corpus Christi Sunday in 2022.) Visit the Eucharistic Revival Website at https://eucharisticrevival.org/
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“Revival” is something only GOD can do. Revival cannot be achieved by any human effort, program or strategy... Revival happens only when and how GOD chooses. But we can hasten it by sincere, unceasing prayer (and fasting).
Forgive me for saying so, but I don't think the U.S. Catholic Bishops have a clue.
During a Feb. 8, 2023 chapel service, the students at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky experienced "revival"! People who attended described a powerful sense of the "presence of God," an atmosphere of "deep prayer," with testimonies, tears, conversions, "confession" of sins, the reading of Scripture, "praise and worship."
(If) this endeavor or this activity is of human origin, it will destroy itself. But if it comes from God, you will not be able to destroy (it); you may even find yourselves fighting against God. (Acts 5:38-39)
This revival has spread to other college campuses... The fire of the Holy Spirit cannot be contained.
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God (praising the Lord), and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s fetters were un-fastened (chains were broken). (Acts 16:25-26)
Are you in bondage to sin? Do you struggle with addiction? Are you anxious, obsessed? Is there too much stress in your life? Do you have negative, self-defeating thoughts? Are you depressed, fearful? Do you have irrational guilt and feelings?
Deliverance is possible -- through praise!
“When a soul extols (highly praises) My goodness, Satan trembles before it and flees to the very bottom of hell.” _ St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul #378
“Great is the LORD and worthy of much praise (Psalm 145:3).” ... “He that offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies Me (Psalm 50:23).”
When we choose to praise God, we soon discover that the fruit of praise is the “joy” of the Lord.
Forgetting ourselves and our circumstances -- our present anxieties and infirmities -- we offer a “sacrifice of praise” to God (Hebrews 13:15).
