Baton Rouge to New Orleans, Louisiana: Eucharistic Flotilla

For its tenth anniversary the annual Fête-Dieu du Têche will make history by charting a two-day course on the Mississippi River instead of the usual bayou in Lafayette on August 14–15. The flotilla will carry a 14-foot monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament 130 miles from Baton Rouge to New Orleans with stops and rallies along the way to “bless the river and the state of Louisiana,” said organizers.

Renamed Fête-Dieu du Mississippi this year, meaning “festival of God on the Mississippi River,” the event was planned in conjunction with the national three-year Eucharistic Revival taking place in the United States, and is intended as a missionary endeavor following the National Eucharistic Congress that drew 60,000 pilgrims to Indianapolis last month.

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