“I hope that this event will allow students to encounter Jesus through reverence, beauty, and prayer wherever they may be,” she added.
Father Norbert Jurek, chaplain at the student center, told CNA that after talking to the chaplains who preceded him, he discovered that this will likely be the first time a Eucharistic procession has ever taken place on the public University of South Alabama campus.
“We are really happy that we were able to put it together this year and hopefully it’s going to be a regular thing,” Jurek said, adding that students are not generally on campus during the Feast of Corpus Christi, a day when Eucharistic processions are widely held across the world.
Alabama as a whole has a population of almost 5 million, only about 7% of whom are Catholic, with the vast majority of Alabamans identifying as Protestant.
Archbishop Thomas Rodi of Mobile has declared “The Year of the Eucharist and the Parish,” which ends Nov. 21, 2021. As a result, the Catholic student center was inspired to do a Eucharistic procession to finish out the year, Jurek said.
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