WOF 387: It’s Time for Eucharistic Revival
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Friends, a recent study from the Pew Research Center found that nearly seven-in-ten Catholics (69%) believe that during Mass, the bread and wine used in communion “are symbols of the body and blood of Jesus Christ.” Only one-third of U.S. Catholics believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation, which says the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Jesus.
This is a spiritual crisis, and in response, the United States bishops have launched a three-year Eucharistic revival to help Catholics understand the truth and beauty of this sacrament. On today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I discuss our hopes for the revival and the special resource Word on Fire created to accompany it.
A listener asks, if the Eucharist is the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, is the Eucharist a person?
Links
- National Eucharistic Revival
- Word on Fire Eucharist resources
- This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival by Bishop Robert Barron ($2 per copy)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Prior to the consecration, no, we brought some bread and some wine forward to the altar. |
| 0:05.0 | But after the consecration, it's no longer appropriate to call them bread and wine because at the deepest level, they have changed. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the senior publishing director at Word on Fire. |
| 0:28.0 | The bishops of America have launched a three year Eucharistic revival. |
| 0:33.0 | What is this all about? Why is it needed and how can we participate? |
| 0:37.0 | That's what we'll be discussing with Bishop Baron today who joins us from our studio in Rochester, Minnesota. |
| 0:43.0 | Bishop, good to see you. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey, Brandon. How you doing today? |
| 0:47.0 | Doing well. We're recording this now in April. I know it's not going to air till May, but at the time of recording this, you just wrapped up your first holy week as an ordinary as the Bishop leading the city. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm just trying to finish this year in the middle of May, you know, you're just trying to be an ordinary as the King of the World and keep it up. |
| 1:03.0 | How can I help you? |
| 1:04.0 | Before I get to that, I want to tell you in my first spring now in Minnesota and it was about what? |
| 1:10.0 | Six days ago, it was like midsummer. It was eighty five here. |
| 1:15.0 | And then the last three days and that it was thirty and snowing. |
| 1:19.0 | So we had four inches of snow up here. So that's my first experience of Minnesota spring. |
| 1:24.0 | It was terrific. I had just gotten back from this kind of arduous trip to Rome and I landed and the next day was Palm Sunday. |
| 1:31.0 | Did that one of our local parishes? Then following day was chrism mass. |
| 1:36.0 | And we handed at one of the most beautiful parishes in my diocese down in Austin, Minnesota. |
| 1:41.0 | The home by the way of spam and whoremel chili. They're based in Austin, Minnesota. |
| 1:45.0 | There's a beautiful church down there called St. Augustine and we had the chrism mass, which I love. |
| 1:50.0 | It's when a lot of the priests come together, people from all over the diocese come and we bless the sacred oils for the coming year. |
| 1:57.0 | It's beautiful mass. And then we Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. |
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