From the Friars: All Roads Lead to the Blessed Sacrament

“Jesus, I need you. Help me.” The man was 24 years old and homeless. He had just thrown away his marijuana and vapes after joining in a Eucharistic Procession which passed by him only thirty minutes before…He was not even Catholic.

While driving on an interstate in Ohio, a teary-eyed woman, feeling abandoned and confused after the death of her mother, asked, “Lord, where are you right now?” when suddenly a van marked “National Eucharistic Pilgrimage” containing the Blessed Sacrament drove by her.

A woman in New Jersey was visiting the spot where her brother was killed six months before. She saw the monstrance shining in the sunlight and soon joined in that procession. “The anger and the grief just lifted. Jesus took it [all] away” she confided.

It’s happening all over the country. People are coming back to the faith. They are experiencing the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, in a way that most did not expect: through Eucharistic Processions.

Last week, the Friars began assisting in a month-long Eucharistic Pilgrimage throughout the Diocese of Manchester. In collaboration with the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Healing Love, we will visit every Catholic church, school, and health care facility in the state of New Hampshire–from May 18th to June 19th (over 110 different locations). This Pilgrimage will feature a near-continuous Eucharistic Procession of the Blessed Sacrament as well as daily Mass, Adoration, and Confessions.

The inspiration for this endeavor was last July’s National Eucharistic Congress in Indiana in which four Eucharistic Pilgrimages from different parts of our country converged in Indianapolis. Hundreds, even thousands joined the routes. Now this event is being duplicated on a smaller scale just north of us and the Friars are honored to help lead this renewal.

How do two people fall in love? We fall in love with a person by spending time with that person; and spending time with our Eucharistic Lord Jesus is the best way for us to fall in love with Him.

In the Ancient world, there was an old saying, “All roads lead to Rome.” In 2025 in New Hampshire there’s a new saying, “All roads lead to the Blessed Sacrament.”

Fr. Andrew