LANSING —Bishop Boyea invites all Catholics, lay and ordained, in the Diocese of Lansing to join him in a 2025 Jubilee Year initiative that will be rooted in Eucharistic devotion, the source and summit of our faith, and aims to unite parishioners across the diocese in a shared mission of prayer, intercession, and evangelization, writes Craig Pohl, Director of the Office of New Evangelization for the Diocese of Lansing.
This effort will begin with a diocesan-wide 40-hour intercessory campaign spanning from the feast of Pentecost on June 8 to Corpus Christi on June 21 and culminating with an all-diocesan Mass and Eucharistic Procession in Lansing.
The idea originated as a follow up to the National Eucharistic Congress, which happened in July of 2024 and has subsequently evolved into a full-blown Jubilee Year event. The initiative begins with a 40-hour Intercessory Adoration campaign, where each of the diocese’s 10 deaneries will orchestrate a schedule aiming to cover every hour between Pentecost and Corpus Christi with Eucharistic adoration across their parishes. Bishop Boyea envisions this as a powerful opportunity for intercession, not only for personal and communal conversion, but also for those who have drifted from the faith or have yet to encounter Christ in a life-changing way.
Bishop Boyea is convinced that no evangelization movement happens without first turning to God and asking the Father for the needed graces for its success. It is his hope that this initiative will be a spiritual kickoff to “a new movement of evangelization and discipleship” throughout the diocese and beyond. Bishop Boyea has asked the Office of New Evangelization, led by me, to spearhead the effort while ministry leaders across the diocese are asked to rally their parishioners to participate.