The Miracle Behind Corpus Christi

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Why does the Chuch celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi? Dr. Sri delves into the origins and meaning of the Feast of Corpus Christi, underscoring the necessity of faith and trust in understanding the mystery of the Eucharist.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edwards III, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life.
0:12.3	This week, the Catholic Church is getting ready to celebrate the great solemnity of Corpus Christi,
0:17.6	one of my favorite feast days of the year, where we celebrate the body of Christ, the gift of the Eucharist. But did you know that for the first 1,200 years of Christianity,
0:27.1	there wasn't a feast of Corpus Christi? Where did this feast come from? What's its origins?
0:31.4	Well, I want to bring you back to an amazing event that happened in the year 1263 AD in one of my
0:37.4	favorite Italian cities.
0:39.3	It's a city just north of Rome, about an hour's drive.
0:42.5	It's called Orvieto.
0:43.8	I don't know if you've ever been to Orvieto.
0:45.1	If you haven't, you need to go the next time you go to Rome, take a train right up.
0:49.1	It's really cheap, easy to get to.
0:50.7	But Orvieto was an ancient Roman city.
0:52.5	It was built on top of a hill. There was a Roman
0:54.6	garrison that had been there originally, but in 1263, the Pope had been staying there. His name
1:00.3	was Pope Urban the 4th. And while he was there, there was a Bohemian priest passing through on
1:06.3	pilgrimage to Rome, who was having a great crisis of faith. Now, I want to be clear, this priest from Bohemia was
1:13.0	devout. He was a good man, but he was struggling that Jesus was really present in the Eucharist.
1:20.2	He was struggling with that belief. Does the sacred host really become the body and blood of Christ?
1:28.8	It just looks like bread.
1:31.4	And he wanted to believe, but he wasn't sure.
1:34.2	So he went down on pilgrimage to Rome.
1:36.1	He wanted to pray at the tomb of St. Peter,
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