How show we evaluate the results of the U.S. bishops’ multi-million dollar effort?
This fall marks four years since the U.S. bishops’ conference voted overwhelmingly in favor of a National Eucharistic Revival.
The initiative – sparked in part by a Pew poll showing that less than 35% of Catholics believe in the True Presence of the Eucharist – aimed to rekindle devotion to the Eucharist among Catholics in the United States.
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“My goal all along was to motivate Catholics who were in the pew to become more missionary and to ask the Lord to bring revival to the Catholic Church in our country,” said Bishop Andrew Cozzens, chair of the National Eucharistic Congress board. “Revival is something that the Lord does. It is a work of the Holy Spirit.”
The strategy was simple — give God space to work.
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“We thought that if we hold up Jesus and invite people to encounter Him and be sent on mission, then he will do that,” said Tim Glemkowski, who served as CEO of the National Eucharistic Congress.
But did it work?
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