Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, told Vatican News that his attendance at the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis had been “a blessed experience for me.”

The Filipino cardinal, who attended the event as a papal delegate, said that he conveyed the message of Pope Francis that those participating in the Congress should bear in mind “the missionary dimension of our Eucharistic devotion, so that our Eucharistic devotion does not end up being a closed relationship between Jesus and me, and I forget the world and I forget others.”