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Hey there, Spouts.

Today is Thursday, January 23, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we have had the privilege of talking about the great sacrament of Holy Eucharist.

We've already talked about how Jesus is, undeniably, completely, truly present in bread

and wine at each mass that we attend. We also talked about how Jesus Christ himself, particularly

in the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John, talks about how we need to eat his body and blood,

not as a metaphor, but truly.

Yesterday we talked about the things that we can see and hear that happen at mass,

particularly the prayer of consecration that the priest says.

Now today, we are going to try to pull back the veil a little bit to understand what happens that we can't

see at mass, all of the invisible things. Now there is so much here. I'm going to try my best to make

it clear. But what I encourage you to do is to use this as the beginning of your study of the Mass

and to talk with the trusted adults in your life, maybe even your parish priest, more about all of

the mysterious, invisible, incredible things that happen every single time you go to Holy Mass.

Now, the first thing we're going to talk about is all of the incredible, invisible,

but truly real ways that Jesus himself is present each time we go to Mass.

In fact, Jesus, although you can't see him, is present in four

different ways every time we go to Mass. Now, the first way that Jesus is present is through the

reading of Holy Scripture. That might seem strange, right? But Jesus truly is. We refer to him all the time as

the Word of God. Scripture isn't just an ordinary book. Scripture is divinely inspired. It is powerful.

The Bible is the most read book in the history of the world.

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