Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.

Are you ready to celebrate the great feast of Corpus Christi this week? That solemnity in which we celebrate the great feast of Corpus Christi this week, that solemnity in which we celebrate

the gift of Jesus's body, blood, soul, and divinity, I want to get you ready for this one.

I'm going to help you get ready spiritually and help you especially get ready biblically. I'm going to help you get ready spiritually and help you especially get ready

biblicly. I'm going to take you in this special edition of all things Catholic

to the Holy Land, to Capernum, to the very synagogue where Jesus gave the

great bread of life discourse and this podcast was recorded

while on pilgrimage this last year and I want to share with you a little bit of the biblical

background of what took place in that

bread of life discourse, which gives us some of the richest theology in sacred scripture

about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.

Have you ever had a really bad day

where just everything seems to be going wrong

and you were coasting in life and things were going well at home or in the workplace or in your ministry and your parish

whatever you're doing and then all of a sudden everything just crashes down all around you and you're wondering what just happened

why did this happen?

Well, if you've ever had a moment like that,

you may look at what happened to Jesus right here

in the place we're standing on, here in Capernum.

So we're on pilgrimage here in Kepernum. So we're on pilgrimage here in Kepernum and

there's something that happened in this very place. We are in the synagogue,

right over the where the synagogue in Jesus's day was and where many of the Jews worship

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