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   EUCHARISTIC CONGRESSES CONTRIBUTE TO NEW EVANGELISATION   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 11 NOV 2010 (VIS) - Today in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received   
   participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Committee for   
   International Eucharistic Congresses, who have completed preparations for the   
   next congress, which will take place in the Irish capital Dublin in 2012.   
      
   "International Eucharistic Congresses already have a long history in the   
   Church", the Holy Father noted. "They highlight the universal dimension of   
   celebration. Celebration is, in fact, always a feast of faith around the   
   Eucharistic Christ, the Christ of the supreme sacrifice for humanity, in which   
   not only the faithful from a particular Church or nation participate, but,   
   insofar as possible, from all over the world. It is the Church that gathers   
   around her Lord and God".   
      
   "The task of Eucharistic Congresses, especially at the current time, is also   
   that of making a special contribution to new evangelisation, promoting   
   mystagogical evangelisation which is accomplished in the school of the   
   prayerful Church, on the basis of the liturgy and through the liturgy. But each   
   Congress also contains a new evangelising impulse in a more strictly missionary   
   sense, so much so that the binomial term 'Eucharist-mission' has become part of   
   the guidelines suggested by the Holy See".   
      
   The Holy Father completed his remarks with some liturgical-pastoral advice. "It   
   is important", he said, "that each Eucharistic Congress should, in accordance   
   with the reforming spirit of the Council, involve and integrate both 'extra   
   missam' expressions of Eucharistic worship which have their roots in popular   
   devotion, and associations of faithful which, in various ways, draw inspiration   
   form the Eucharist. All forms of Eucharistic devotion, also recommended and   
   encouraged by the Encyclical 'Ecclesia de Eucharistia' and the Post-Synodal   
   Exhortation 'Sacramentum caritatis', must be harmoniously brought together in a   
   Eucharistic ecclesiology oriented towards communion".   
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