The Portal Archive Eucharistic Congress 2012

is the n1onthly review of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham publisl1ed free on t11e first day of every monrh al www.portalmag.co.uk THE PoRTAL The SOth International Eucharistic Congress is being held in Dublin from 10th to 17th June Read the full 8-day report here Around 20,000 pilgrims, over a quarter of them from overseas, were at the opening ceremony at the Royal Dublin Society and the Portal Magazine is represented by Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane. Each day they prepared a report for the Portal Mag website giving a report on the days activities ... which are published here in these special pagee. International Eucharistic Congress 2012 (or the SOth International Eucharistic Congress) was set up in response to the invitation from Pope Benedict XVI that the Archdiocese of Dublin would host the next International Eucharistic Congress, on behalf of the whole Irish Catholic Church A Eucharistic Congress i an international gathering of people which aims to promote an awareness of the central place of the Eucharist in the life and mission of the Catholic Church> to help improve our understanding and celebration of the liturgy and to draw attention to the social dimension of the Eucharist.