Eucharistic Consecration of the Diocese of Superior (Part – 2)

This article is from Bishop Powers’ Aug. 5 letter to clergy, parish and Catholic school leaders. My desire in making this consecration is not a onetime ‘conversion moment,’ so much as the beginning (or new beginning) of daily surrender of our lives to the Lordship of Jesus. In doing so, we can allow him to both transform us (holiness) and send us (mission). These are the two main thrusts of my Pastoral Letter on Evangelization in 2023. In that letter I wrote, My hope is not to arouse a sudden burst of activity around the diocese. Rather my hope for us is to stir up a desire to say ‘yes’, like Mary, to receiving the love of God in a fruitful way. The coinciding of this initiative with the national Eucharistic Revival is a providential gift that grounds us in this posture of receptivity. For it is through the great gift of the Blessed Sacrament that the Lord will sanctify, nourish, and send us.                                           Father Maria Joseph Kodiganti