{"id":6973,"date":"2025-04-03T01:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/learn\/father-mike-schmitz-preaches-repentance-at-national-eucharistic-congress\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T01:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:05:51","slug":"father-mike-schmitz-preaches-repentance-at-national-eucharistic-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/father-mike-schmitz-preaches-repentance-at-national-eucharistic-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Padre Mike Schmitz predica il pentimento al Congresso Eucaristico Nazionale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Father Mike Schmitz speaks at the revival session of the National Eucharistic Congress on July 18, 2024. \/ Credit: Jeffrey Bruno<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Indianapolis, Ind., Jul 19, 2024 \/ 11:30 am (CNA).<\/p>\n

In his keynote speech at the National Eucharistic Congress Thursday evening \u201crevival session,\u201d Father Mike Schmitz, host of the popular \u201cBible in a Year\u201d podcast, used a word that one doesn\u2019t hear very often these days. He called on the Catholics gathered in Indianapolis\u2019 Lucas Oil Stadium to repent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this is going to be a revival, if it\u2019s going to be a real revival, here\u2019s the reality. In the history of Christianity, you can never have a revival without repentance,\u201d said Schmitz, chaplain at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.<\/p>\n

Schmitz, whose YouTube videos and podcasts have made him a household name among Catholics and non-Catholics alike, was met with a standing ovation from the crowd of over 50,000 when he walked onto the stage on the second night of the five-day event to deliver his talk titled \u201cThe Greatest Love Story.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Father Mike Schmitz speaks at the revival session of the National Eucharistic Congress at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on July 18, 2024. Credit: Jeffrey Bruno<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The National Eucharistic Congress is a culminating event of the U.S. Catholic bishops\u2019 three-year-long National Eucharistic Revival<\/a>, an initiative that aims to renew Catholics\u2019 faith that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, a central tenet of Catholicism. <\/p>\n

The bishops in 2019 decided to embark on the initiative following a Pew survey that found that only one-third of Catholics believed that the consecrated bread and wine in the Mass are the body and blood of Jesus.<\/p>\n

While some have disputed the methodology of that particular survey, belief in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist has been widely acknowledged to have declined in recent years.<\/p>\n

Schmitz told the crowd attending the conference, however, that believing in the doctrine of the Real Presence that teaches that the Eucharist is Jesus is not enough. <\/p>\n

Comparing Catholics today to the people of Jerusalem to whom the prophet Jeremiah preached about the need to repent, Schmitz said the problem is not that we don\u2019t know about the Eucharist, it\u2019s that we are indifferent to it. <\/p>\n

\u201cToo often,\u201d he said, Catholics are \u201cthe people Jeremiah was speaking to. \u2026 We say, \u2018We have the Real Presence, we have the Real Presence, we have the Real Presence,\u2019 but our hearts are far from him. We know \u2014 we just don\u2019t care.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIf the remedy for ignorance is to get to knowledge, and the road to knowledge is truth, the remedy for indifference is love, and the road to love is repentance,\u201d he challenged the gathering.<\/p>\n

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Ciboria filled with hosts await the start of Mass at the National Eucharistic Congress at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on July 18, 2024. Credit: Jeffrey Bruno<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Schmitz, who at one point seemed to tear up while talking about the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, told the crowd that belief in the presence of Jesus is \u201cnot the point of the Mass.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis whole conference, we\u2019re talking about the real presence of Jesus. Amen. Yes, Jesus is truly present, body, blood, soul, and divinity in every Eucharist, in every Mass, in every tabernacle around the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs the point of the Mass the presence of Jesus? No. It\u2019s the presence of Jesus that makes the point possible. I want to say that again. The presence of Jesus is not the point of the Mass,\u201d Schmitz said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Real Presence makes the sacrifice possible. We fall into a big trap when we say, \u2018Oh, no, the point is that you\u2019re here.\u2019 Or, \u2018The point is I get to receive you.\u2019 Those are amazing things. But what saves us is the sacrifice of the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus to the Father in humble obedience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He called on the assembled to repent \u2014\u00a0of large sins and \u201cthose small things that we settle for.\u201d Both, he said, can \u201csnuff out\u201d the flame of our love for Jesus.<\/p>\n

Everyone, he said, should ask themselves: \u201cIf I\u2019ve lost the fire of my love for the Lord, my first love, the first fire, what are the fire extinguishers in my life?\u201d <\/p>\n

He concluded by calling on those gathered for the conference to resolve to make changes in their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t expect to take the fire of this weekend and bring it back to my home if I\u2019m trying to cram it into the life I just left,\u201d Schmitz continued. \u201cSomething has to change. Someone has to redecorate my home. We have to do some remodeling. That\u2019s the plan. Tonight, be able to make some of those decisions. What are the fire extinguishers I know I\u2019m returning to when I go back home? It\u2019s time to remodel because I cannot fit the fire of God\u2019s love and for the life I left behind.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The evening also included a keynote speech from Mother Olga of the Sacred Heart, who shared her experiences of Eucharistic miracles and healing that she has witnessed in her own life and in her work in the Archdiocese of Boston. <\/p>\n

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Mother Olga of the Sacred Heart recounts her experiences with the healing power of the Eucharist at the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis on July 18, 2024. Credit: Jeffrey Bruno<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She recounted her experiences helping a young cancer patient and a significantly premature baby access the Eucharist. Both defied the odds and are thriving today, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI give thanks to God for allowing me to be present and to witness these miracles so I can come and be a voice for him and for them, so that you go out and share with everybody. Eucharistic miracles are real and Our Lord truly present, and he\u2019s here in our midst, wherever you go, any parish, any church, any diocese,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Lila Rose, the founder and president of the pro-life human rights group Live Action, and Ken and Mary Ann Duppong, parents of Servant of God Michelle Duppong, also offered testimonies about their faith.<\/p>\n

Before the conclusion of the event, the faithful knelt in adoration of the Eucharist, which was processed into and out of the stadium by Bishop William Byrne of Springfield, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

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Bishop William Byrne of the Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts, prays before the Eucharist. Credit: Jeffry Bruno<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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More than 50,000 kneel in adoration of the Eucharist at the National Eucharistic Congress held at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis. Credit: Jeffry Bruno<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

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