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As the U.S. Bishops prepare to kick-off a\u00a0three-year revival<\/a>\u00a0on devotion and belief in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, I have been reflecting on how faithful Catholic education is key to the success of this revival. It is the Church\u2019s primary means of evangelization.<\/p>\n

Consider\u00a0Christendom College<\/a>\u00a0in Front Royal, Virginia, where the truth that the Eucharist is the \u201csource and summit of Christian life\u201d is taught and lived.\u00a0<\/i>While many Catholic colleges spend time and resources on extravagant athletic or arts facilities, yet they neglect the formation and souls of their students, Christendom graduates smart, virtuous, and capable Christians and focused its latest capital campaign on building a magnificent new Christ the King Chapel to glorify God.<\/p>\n

Many Christendom students attend Mass every day, and they don\u2019t have to worry about \u201cfitting it in,\u201d because classes and activities are never scheduled during Mass times. There is a refreshing emphasis on beautiful, reverent liturgy in both the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms. Students have frequent opportunities for Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Confession. The First Friday Holy Hour is popular, as well as the Eucharistic procession on the Solemnity of Christ the King.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Eucharistic education. It places Christ at the center, with the Mass at the center of campus life, and students are taught to live as bearers of Christ within them.<\/p>\n

Sarah Davis, a homeschooled student in Pennsylvania, who will be heading to Christendom College this fall, was drawn to study at a college which \u201ckeeps Our Eucharistic Lord at the center of campus life,\u201d according to her award-winning essay<\/a> submitted to The Cardinal Newman Society. She won a $5,000 scholarship in the Society\u2019s\u00a0Essay Scholarship Contest<\/a>, in which high school students were asked how attending a Catholic college that is strongly devoted to the Eucharist will uniquely impact their religious, moral, intellectual and social formation.<\/p>\n

Such a \u201cdevotion to the Eucharist, nurtured during college, will be my strong foundation as I continue to grow into the woman God has created me to be,\u201d Davis predicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn front of the Blessed Sacrament,\u201d she wrote, \u201cI will find the strength to conscientiously perform my duties as a student, treat others with true charity, and keep fighting for sanctity. If our Eucharistic Lord reigns over the college which I attend, I will be challenged to let Him reign over my own heart and life.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Sarah will find strong support for her faith at Christendom College \u2014 one of several colleges recommended in the Newman Guide<\/a> and the Register Guide for truly Catholic education \u2014 the reality is that many of her peers students go off to college and lose their faith. After college graduation, nearly\u00a075%<\/a> of Catholics do not believe in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.<\/p>\n

While this may seem a crisis of dissent, it is more a crisis of education and a failure of the Church. In that same study, about two-thirds (64%) of the young adults who denied the Real Presence admitted to being unsure or unaware of the Church\u2019s teaching on the Eucharist. And 62% actually believed the Church teaches that the Eucharist is just a symbol of Christ.<\/p>\n

We greatly need a revival of Eucharistic education. It is in faithful Catholic education that young people learn not to separate their lives and their knowledge from Christ, who enters into every study and every activity. We need this in our Catholic parish schools, lay-run independent schools, homeschools, hybrid programs, and colleges.<\/p>\n

Christendom College is a shining example of the Eucharistic education that every Catholic child needs and deserves. It is a great feeling to help Sarah Davis get this sort of education \u2014 but the Church should be committed to ensuring it for every baptized child and young adult.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared at the\u00a0National Catholic Register<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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