{"id":24522,"date":"2009-04-10T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/belmont-abbey-college-youth-mo\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T11:03:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T15:03:06","slug":"belmont-abbey-college-youth-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/belmont-abbey-college-youth-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmont Abbey &#038; College host Eucharistic gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Procession.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px;\" alt=\"Procession.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/04\/Procession-thumb-150x112.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/span>On the 5th Sunday of Lent (March 29) the Charlotte diocese co-sponsored with Belmont Abbey &amp; College the 3rd annual Eucharistic Congress for Youth. The gathering included a procession with the Eucharist around the campus, inspirational and formative talks, the sacrament of Confession, Vespers and Benediction. Bishop Peter Jugis, Abbot Placid, Dom Kieran and Dom\u00a0Edward, among other monks and religious, including 2 Capuchin friars,\u00a0assisted in giving a witness to the exceptional and powerful Presence of the Lord with\u00a0more than 450 students from the college and across the diocese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Bp%20Jugis.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px;\" alt=\"Bp Jugis.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Bp%20Jugis-thumb-175x315.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a>This terrific Eucharistic event strengthened and gave hope to the many participants. Plus, it was a spectacular sunny day. It was a keen reminder that all of life is viewed through the lens of the Eucharist.<\/p>\n<p>The gaze of the Eucharistic Lord on us and us on Him is a beautiful gesture of mercy.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/new.php?n=15644\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 5th Sunday of Lent (March 29) the Charlotte diocese co-sponsored with Belmont Abbey &amp; College the 3rd annual Eucharistic Congress for Youth. The gathering included a procession with the Eucharist around the campus, inspirational and formative talks, the sacrament of Confession, Vespers and Benediction. Bishop Peter Jugis, Abbot Placid, Dom Kieran and Dom\u00a0Edward, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/belmont-abbey-college-youth-mo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Belmont Abbey &#038; College host Eucharistic gathering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1976,32089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28895,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24522\/revisions\/28895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}