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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.
May 12, 2021
CAMPBELL Julius Fedor, 94, passed away peacefully Friday, May 7, 2021, at Woodlands at Hampton Woods Nursing Home.
Julius was born June 4, 1926, in Campbell, to Susan Takacs Fedor and Joseph Fedor.
He went to school in New York City to study radio technology and returned to Ohio to work as an electrician at Packard Electric for his entire professional career.
In addition to working at Packard Electric, Julius was a jewelry maker. He studied jewelry making at Adamas Jewelry in Youngstown and built his own polishing machines to polish the rocks he used in his pieces.
Julius served in the U.S. Army during World War II, stationed in Germany in the IG Farben building, a building that was considered the Pentagon of Germany. His job was to create dossiers of German war strategists and share them with U.S. allies.
Catholic Services to Resume on Saturday
Hungary’s Catholic Church will resume celebrating public services across the country on Saturday, Catholic portal Magyar Kurír reported.
According to the portal, in some parts of the country public events of the church restarted on April 10.
Catholic churches in Hungary will stay open and services will continue to be public, the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference said in a statement on Friday. In view of the country’s lockdown starting next Monday “churches are especially important as places for spiritual renewal and prayer”, the statement said, but added that local bishops would relieve […]Continue reading
Through the International Eucharistic Congress “we do our best to present our culture, spiritual heritage, our amazing country, and capital city,” said Cardinal Péter Erdő in an interview to Italian news site Settimananews.it.” The head of the Hungarian Catholic Church shared some details about the upcoming International Eucharistic Congress to be held in Budapest in September.
In the interview, Péter Erdő shared that after Pope Francis announced in a video message in Cebu, Philippines, that the next International Eucharistic Congress in line will be held in Budapest, they were all delighted, and not only the Hungarians, but everyone who was present.