Students learn Eucharistic influence during meaningful pilgrimage stop experience #Catholic - On the morning of June 15, Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney met with a gathering of Catholic middle-school and high-school students of the Paterson Diocese, N.J., at St. Peter the Apostle Parish in Parsippany, N.J. This week, the Paterson Diocese hosted a historic first: stops on the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. At St. Peter’s, Bishop Sweeney led a Eucharistic procession with the students. Franciscan Father Casey Cole, one of three priests on the national pilgrimage with strong social media presence, delivered a talk to the students, “Influenced by the Eucharist.”
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On the morning of June 15, Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney met with a gathering of Catholic middle-school and high-school students of the Paterson Diocese, N.J., at St. Peter the Apostle Parish in Parsippany, N.J. This week, the Paterson Diocese hosted a historic first: stops on the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. At St. Peter’s, Bishop Sweeney led a Eucharistic procession with the students. Franciscan Father Casey Cole, one of three priests on the national pilgrimage with strong social media presence, delivered a talk to the students, “Influenced by the Eucharist.”

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On the morning of June 15, Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney met with a gathering of Catholic middle-school and high-school students of the Paterson Diocese, N.J., at St. Peter the Apostle Parish in Parsippany, N.J. This week, the Paterson Diocese hosted a historic first: stops on the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. At St. Peter’s, Bishop Sweeney led a Eucharistic procession with the students. Franciscan Father Casey Cole, one of three priests on the national pilgrimage with strong social media presence, delivered a talk to the students, “Influenced by the Eucharist.”

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