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The upcoming International Eucharistic Congress will be marked as the first global event after the pandemic in Hungary, which is slowly reopening up after a devastating COVID-19 attack.
Pope Francis is scheduled to attend the Sept. 5-12 event in Budapest, along with Church leaders and Catholics from across the world.
The international religious event will be a sign of hope for Hungary amid human misery, according to Hungarian Cardinal Péter Erdő.
Since September last year the nation of 10 million people witnessed more than 29,000 COVID-19 deaths, one of the highest per capita pandemic death toll in the world.
The International Eucharistic Congress was postponed last year because of pandemic. However, preparations are under way now for the September program.
Heroes’ Square (Hősök tere), Budapest, Hungary. / Andrew Shiva / Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 4.0.
CNA Staff, May 19, 2021 / 06:40 am (CNA).
The International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, will open this September with a 1,000-strong choir .
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The International Eucharistic Congress (NEK) scheduled to be held in Budapest from Sept. 5 to 12 will feature holy masses, predications, and cultural and family programmes, the organisers said on Thursday.
The congress’s opening mass will be celebrated at Heroes’ Square, Gábor Mohos, the head of the NEK secretariat, told a press conference.
On Sept. 11, Cardinal Péter Erdő, the head of the Hungarian Catholic Church, will celebrate mass, followed by a procession to Heroes’ Square, he said.
Statio Orbis, the mass closing the Congress, will be celebrated by Pope Francis at Heroes’ Square on Sept. 12. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 11:30am and will feature the 120-member orchestra of the Hungarian State Opera with a choir of 2,000, Mohos said. He said the Congress’s main programmes can be attended free of charge, but he advised those wishing to follow events closely at the site to register in advance.