LA story behind big monstrance at the National Eucharistic Congress
Jesus Christ may have been the main protagonist at the National Eucharistic Congress, but the golden, unusually large monstrance used to carry him each night before thousands at Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium caught people’s attention, too.
Where did they get such a big, beautiful monstrance from? And as one reporter jokingly asked, had Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston, Minnesota, lead organizer of the Congress, been lifting weights to be able to carry it through the stadium?
The monstrance, Cozzens told journalists at the Congress, was actually the same model that organizers had seen images of Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez use in a Eucharistic procession through the streets of San Gabriel in March 2023.