40000 AT EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS IN COLOGNE - GERMANY

KATH NET RELEASE: With an open-air Mass, the Catholic Church has opened the Eucharistic Congress in Cologne.
Cologne (kath.net / CBA) with a mass in the open air, the Catholic Church has opened the Eucharistic Congress in Cologne. In sunny weather, to around 5,000 people, including about 40 bishops gathered.In his homily, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch called for "with great inner joy and openness" to celebrate the five-day religious meetings.


"We are looking higher than the Cologne Cathedral and better than the works of the culture," says the chairman of the German Bishops Conference. The Catholics in Germany and neighboring countries wanted Jesus Christ "in a prominent manner" honor and meet him in the Eucharist. The focus of the meeting lasted until Sunday Eucharist as the central sacrament of the Catholic Church. Their understanding is in the Eucharist through a transformation of bread and wine Christ himself is present. Zollitsch expressed the hope that the festival radiating "the church beyond": Communion with God urge to "the protection and interior of an alleged well-being leave-Christianity and to go to the people of the modern world as missionaries. "Jesus Christ became for all people and had "given his life for the most distant sinner." main celebrant of the service was Cardinal Joachim Meisner, who is at the head of the host diocese of Cologne. He expressed the hope that all participants walked away from Cologne a little happier than they came to it. At the altar, on the Rhine, a 20-meter-high cross was erected, which is illuminated at night and to serve as a symbol of the Congress. After the Mass, the participants moved in a procession on a Rhine bridge to the cathedral, where they expected a light installation with organ sounds and vocals.800 events to the Congress with around 40,000 participants have registered, according to the organizers, including 8,000 permanent residents.The Cologne meeting lasts until Sunday and has the motto "Lord, to whom shall we go?". Discussions are planned faith, worship, confession, panel discussions, lectures, concerts and theater events.

 (KATH.NET - INTERNET TRANSLATION)
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