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The Gathering Place, a Podcast from Blessed is She

Unpacking the Eucharist: Talking About Its Significance and Meaning // Q&A with Beth and Jenna

The Gathering Place, a Podcast from Blessed is She

Blessed is She

Religion & Spirituality

4.9833 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Lots of Christians don’t know the truth of the Eucharist; some Catholics even don’t know the beauty of the Eucharist and what It means in our lives that Jesus is truly present: Body, Blood, Soul, & Divinity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I can't help with that.

0:04.4

Today's Q&A was inspired by this past Sunday's feast, the solemnity.

0:11.2

What? And welcome.

0:12.3

Of the most holy body and blood, Jesus, also known as Corpus Christi.

0:17.3

Perhaps you made a little Eucharistic procession at your parish. That's what I did.

0:23.6

And it was inspiring. Yeah. I was searching my heart for the right word. It was a lot of things.

0:31.6

You know what I mean? It was very much like life. I've been on this pilgrimage kick where like we talked about this in terms of perseverance.

0:41.7

Just like just keep walking, you know? And we did this pilgrimage at our parish on Sunday evening

0:49.2

because it was a little bit cooler by then. And I was just very moved by, we started in the church with Eucharistic

0:58.4

adoration, which I didn't know about. Like I didn't think this thing through. I showed up,

1:03.4

I walked in, here's the Lord on the altar. I'm like, whoa, kneel down. Also, I thought it started

1:08.1

at seven, but it really started at 715. But that was a gift

1:11.7

to me because then I got to spend more time with the Lord, you know? Right, right. And I was

1:15.9

just kneeling and I'm telling three stories within one story, but I love when you do that.

1:21.5

Yeah, you would expect nothing less by now. Here's what I want to say. I walked in,

1:25.2

there are all these people from all different walks of life.

1:30.5

Okay.

1:31.4

Our parish is Vietnamese as well. There's like a Vietnamese mass. So like there are just all kinds of people, families, multiple generations, single people, groups of friends.

1:45.4

And I, like, some people are, like, chatting and they don't quite get it.

1:48.3

I just was very moved by the reality that the church is a family.

1:54.6

Yes.

1:55.5

And also deeply moved by something Emily Wilson shared, a grace about bringing her young children to Mass and how the Lord said she was feeling stressed or anxious.

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