ABOUT 1,800 participants, mostly students from schools in Cebu, will converge at the Cebu Doctors’ University (CDU) in Mandaue City starting today for the start of the three-day symposium on the Eucharist.
The event is part of preparations for the 51st International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) which starts next Sunday, January 24.
Some of the speakers in next week’s IEC are also part of the theological symposium at the CDU auditorium.
“Some speakers have actually arrived for the pre-Congress event,” said Msgr. Joseph Tan, spokesperson of the Archdiocese of Cebu, in a phone interview yesterday.
Tan said organizers are on the final stretch of preparations for the IEC which is expected to draw 12,000 delegates from 71 countries.
Most of the delegates, he said, will arrive in the middle of next week. The theological symposium will start with morning prayers at 8:30 a.m.
It will be followed by a discussion about the “Christian Virtue of Hope” by Dominican priest, Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, from the United Kingdom.
In the afternoon, different workshops about the Eucharist will be held. The theological symposium will end with a Holy Mass at 4 p.m.