The Diocese of Wilmington’s s Office of Communications has announced that the keynote address and the closing Mass during the Oct. 5 Diocese of Wilmington Eucharistic Congress in Ocean City, Maryland, will be livestreamed on the diocesan YouTube channel – YouTube.com/DioceseofWilm.
The keynote address is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and will be given by Archbishop Richard Henning, archbishop-designate of the Archdiocese of Boston. Archbishop Henning has served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York and Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island. It was announced Aug. 5 that Pope Francis had appointed him the tenth bishop and seventh archbishop of Boston. He will be installed to that role on Oct. 31.
Bishop William Koenig will be the main celebrant of the concelebrated Eucharistic Congress Mass that will begin at 4 p.m. It will mark the pinnacle of the day-long Congress and feature a 40-member choir comprised of singers from Catholic parishes across Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
The Oct. 5 Eucharistic Congress will be held at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City and is expected to draw more than 1,500 Catholics and others from across the region. Themed “The Eucharist: Source and Summit,” it aims to deepen the faith and fellowship among the Catholic community across Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 2011) names the Eucharist as “the source and summit of the Christian life.” (para 1324). More information is available at cdow.org/EucharisticCongress.
The Diocese of Wilmington’s YouTube channel has 3,000 subscribers and features special event and Sunday Mass livestreams, interviews on topics of local, regional and national interest and video tours of key historic Catholic churches of the diocese.
