WEST CHESTER — The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage sparked hope and heavenly acclaim as Catholics from across the region united in Chester County on Monday at St. Agnes Church. “It’s a public witness to people in the borough,” Michelle Cherry, a borough resident of West Chester and member of the St.
Agnes Parish. “God is still present among us. We should really turn back to him and follow his word and the moral compass he provides.
” More than a thousand people attended a daytime prayer with Eucharistic Benediction at St. Agnes, which is the Mother Church in Chester County for Catholics. The service began with the arrival of the Eucharist into the church.
The Eucharist is traveling along the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Route en route to the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis on July 16. The pilgrimage began on May 17 in Connecticut.
Monday’s event at St. Agnes marked the final stop of the pilgrimage in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. This pilgrimage moves westward.
Concurrently, there are three other pilgrimages taking place nationally; and all will converge together in Indiana next month. People witness the Eucharist at St. Agnes in West Chester on June 3.
(JEN SAMUEL – FOR THE DAILY LOCAL NEWS) Michelle Cherry, a borough resident of West Chester and member of the St. Agnes Parish. “God is still present among us.
We should really turn back to him and follow his word and the moral compass he provides.” (JEN SAMUEL – FOR THE DAILY LOCAL NEWS) The p.