Eucharistic pilgrimage to missions expected to draw thousands
Eucharistic pilgrimage to 21 Spanish missions in California expected to draw thousands
Countless religious pilgrims have prayed at California’s historic Spanish missions over the past 250 years. But the California Eucharistic Pilgrimage set for June 6-22 will be unlike anything before.
Also known as the Camino de California, the 17-day driving pilgrimage will include visits to all 21 mission churches and feature daily Mass, Adoration, Benediction, and Eucharistic processions. There will also be daily works of mercy, such as visits to farm workers, homeless shelters, food banks, cemeteries, prisons, and pregnancy counseling centers along the pilgrimage route.
The Blessed Sacrament will be reverently transported from stop to stop in a specially designed “Eucharistic van,” shepherded by clergy and seminarians belonging to the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFR). Besides those “perpetual pilgrims,” more than 150 “Eucharistic pilgrims” will travel in a vehicle caravan for the entire 800-mile course. Thousands of “day pilgrims” will join local processions and other events.