Abuja, 17 September, 2024 / 9:18 pm (ACI Africa).
The weeklong 53rd International Eucharistic Congress (IEC 2024) that concluded in the South American nation of Ecuador on Sunday, September 15 was a “spiritual event” of great significance, Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Nigeria’s Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja has said.
The September 8-15 International Eucharistic Congress in Quito, Ecuador, concluded with the announcement that Sydney will host the next International Eucharistic Congress in 2028.
In a reflection published on his Facebook page on September 15, Archbishop Kaigama says that the interaction between members of the Clergy and women and men Religious and the Laity was a manifestation of an “active hunger for faith”.
“It was a moving spiritual event, drawing to prayer Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, Religious, Catechists, and Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, thousands of Lay Men, Women, Youth and Children from about 60 countries,” he says.
The Nigerian Catholic Archbishop adds, “At almost every turn, Priests and Bishops were inundated with requests for blessings and photographs – a very active hunger for faith in Ecuador despite growing secularization elsewhere.”
