Cardinal Baldassare Reina, the Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome, has asked all the Catholic communities of the diocese to participate in prayers and acts of reparation on Sunday, June 21, 2026, after a sacrilege against the Eucharist (see prayers at the end of the article).

Sometime between the evening of June 15 and mid-morning on June 16, a still-unidentified person or persons stole the entire tabernacle with consecrated hosts from the chapel of Aurelia Hospital, located on the western outskirts of the Italian capital. The thief also stole the donations from the chapel’s votive candles. This act is “not only a theft perpetrated in a sacred space, but a sacrilege that offends the Lord present in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist,” Cardinal Reina wrote in a public letter on June 19. It also “deeply wounds the faith” of the Christian community.