How to Grow in Eucharistic Devotion
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Eucharistic Revival has placed a lot of emphasis on a need for Eucharistic devotion and evangelization. What is one straightforward way to do this? In this episode, Dr. Edward Sri shares about his experience at the National Eucharistic Congress. He encourages everyone to start doing one thing that he is confident will increase Eucharistic devotion.
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“Do you realize that Jesus is there in the Blessed Sacrament expressly for you, for you alone? He burns with desire to come into your heart!” -St. Therese of Lisieux
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edwards Three, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:07.0 | Imagine walking through the downtown of a major US city and suddenly you're |
| 0:17.8 | stopped you can't cross the street because there's this large procession |
| 0:21.4 | there's hundreds of religious sisters walking by in full habit and then you see |
| 0:25.6 | hundreds of deacons and hundreds of young seminarians and a thousand priests |
| 0:30.4 | and a hundred and sixty bishops walking by and then you see this large gold monstrance carrying the Blessed |
| 0:38.4 | sacrament followed by 50,000 lay Catholics all marching through the streets of this major downtown city. |
| 0:46.2 | Well, that's just what happened in Indianapolis at the great Eucharistic Congress recently. |
| 0:50.7 | And I was blessed to be there. |
| 0:52.2 | I know many of you were there. I got to meet many of you and I know even if you weren't there you probably saw pictures or watch some of the videos. It was just amazing. I went to school in Indianapolis for a year. I studied one year at Butler University and I'd been to that downtown so many times and in my young adult life and it was so awesome to be back there again walking through those city streets with |
| 1:15.0 | 50,000 other Catholics all the leadership of the church and most of all our Lord |
| 1:19.6 | Jesus in the Eucharist. What an extraordinary moment of grace this was for the church and not just the |
| 1:26.2 | church in America. I met many people from Canada, from Mexico, from overseas, from the Philippines, |
| 1:32.4 | from Singapore, from Australia. from the |
| 1:33.3 | overseas from the Philippines from Singapore from Australia. |
| 1:34.6 | It was the whole church coming together to worship our Lord in the |
| 1:39.4 | Eucharist right there in the middle of a secular city proclaiming our Catholic faith and |
| 1:44.8 | belief in the Eucharist. Now what can we do though to benefit to carry this |
| 1:50.0 | forward whether we were there or whether we're can what could we do to benefit from this |
| 1:54.2 | extraordinary moment of grace in the church we're talking about one thing one |
| 1:57.6 | simple thing we all can do to continue and deepen a eucharistic revival in our own hearts, in our own devotion, in our own homes with our children, in our own parishes. |
| 2:08.0 | How can we carry this forward? That's what we're going to take a look at in this week's podcast. So welcome to all things Catholic. |
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