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National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to Stop at Thomas Aquinas College, New England
Following its designation as a Jubilee Year pilgrimage site in 2025, Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel at Thomas Aquinas College, New England, is once again graced with a great honor in the Church: From June 19-20, it will host Our Lord and His people as a stop on the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage.
This year, in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States of America’s founding, the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will travel up the East Coast, making a stop in each of the 13 original colonies, concluding in Philadelphia. On the Blessed Sacrament’s journey, it will pay a visit to Thomas Aquinas College in Northfield, Massachusetts.
“We invite friends, old and new, to join us in adoring the Blessed Sacrament during the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s visit to campus,” says New England Dean Steven Cain. “It is a great honor to welcome so many devoted pilgrims to our Chapel. We hope all who attend will gain many graces from their visit, and that they may also come to know Thomas Aquinas College.”
The pilgrimage will arrive on Friday, June 19, at St. Patrick’s Church in Northfield at 6:00 p.m., where the parish will hold a Holy Hour. At 7:00 p.m., pilgrims will process behind our Eucharistic Lord down Main Street, onto campus, and into Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel. Once there, Eucharistic Adoration will begin at 8:00 p.m. and run throughout the night.
On Saturday at 9:00 a.m., Rev. Peter Totleben, O.P., friar of the Province of St. Joseph and chaplain to the Dominican Monastery of the Mother of God in West Springfield, will offer a meditation called “Bread of Angels, Food for Pilgrims: St. Thomas Aquinas Sings About the Eucharist,” reflecting on some of St. Thomas’s writings in the Summa Theologiae.
“One of the gifts that TAC has to offer the Church is our love for St. Thomas,” notes College event coordinator Emily (Barry ’11) Sullivan. “He, as a saint, a mystic, a Doctor of the Church, the author of so many beloved Eucharistic hymns, is a great teacher for all of us on how to love and give reverence to the Eucharist.”
To close the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s visit to Thomas Aquinas College, the Most Rev. William Byrne, Bishop of Springfield, and the Most Rev. Peter Libasci, Bishop of Manchester, will concelebrate Mass at 10:00 a.m., marking the first time that two bishops will concelebrate Mass in Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel. They will then lead pilgrims in a procession around the campus, Bishop Byrne will officially hand the Blessed Sacrament to Bishop Libasci, and the pilgrimage will continue its journey up the East Coast.
For more information about the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, its official pilgrims, and its other stops, please visit the pilgrimage’s website.