Bishop Solis: Eucharistic Rally will gather diocese as a united faith community

Friday, Jun. 10, 2022

Greetings in Christ’s peace and love!

On June 19 we will celebrate the feast day of our greatest treasure, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the Most Holy Eucharist. The Eucharist unites us with the Church community – with each other, with the Communion of Saints in Heaven, and with Christ himself.

The Catholic Bishops of the United States are calling for a three-year grassroots revival of devotion and belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. We believe that God wants to see a movement of Catholics across the United States, healed, converted, formed and unified by an encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist – and sent out in mission “for the life of the world.” Over the next three years, every Catholic diocese, parish, school, apostolate and family is invited to be a part of renewing the Church by enkindling a living relationship with Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.

The Eucharistic Revival will launch in the Diocese of Salt Lake City on the Feast of Corpus Christi, June 19, 2022. During these next three years, we will emphasize frequent Eucharistic devotions, increase opportunities for adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and revive the faithful adherence to the Eucharist in all its richness. 

Next summer, on Sunday, July 9, 2023, the Diocese of Salt Lake City will gather as one community for one united Mass and other Eucharistic devotions to celebrate a Eucharistic Rally in Utah with all Catholics in our community. Our sisters and brothers in Utah will see that our love and devotion towards the Eucharist empowers us and motivates us to come together from around the state, and to adore Christ and worship him in the Most Blessed Sacrament. If we want the world to know and love Jesus, we must first recognize him and present him to the world in the way that he reveals himself to us. 

My sisters and brothers, I invite you and all the faithful in our diocese to join us in our effort to bring the Eucharist to the forefront of the Catholic Church’s identity to the world. This will ultimately be a work of love, and we will enter into these next three years with joy and excitement that the world will know that Christ is physically in the presence of his Church, his Mystical Body. 

May God bless you all!

The Most Rev. Oscar A. Solis

Bishop of Salt Lake City