US Catholics look for Eucharistic revival with national pilgrimage

(25 Jun 2024)
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Steubenville, Ohio - 23 June 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Aldo Penafiel, Steubenville Resident:
"You like the boat? Do you know who's on the boat? Jesus. Yeah."
2. Eucharistic procession onto a boat on the Ohio River
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Bishop Mark Brennan, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia:
"We will be carrying Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the Eucharist, downstream on the Ohio River, from here in Steubenville, Ohio, to Wheeling, West Virginia."
4. Woman holding National Eucharistic Revival flag
5. Various of nuns and other Catholics kneeling at the launch of the Eucharist on Ohio River
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bishop Mark Brennan, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia:
"At our bishops conference a few years ago, we were discussing some reports we had that a lot of our own Catholic people were not so sure about the nature of Holy Communion. The Catholic belief that the Eucharist is Jesus coming to us. It's a mystery because it still looks like bread, tastes like wine, but our faith is it really is him."
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7. Various of priests and Bishops walking with the monstrance, a vessel in which the consecrated eucharistic host is carried in processions
8. Boat carrying the Eucharist on the Ohio River
9. Nuns and fellow Catholics watching the Eucharist process down the Ohio River toward Wheeling, West Virginia
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Bishop Mark Brennan, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia:
"So we thought, we need to do what we can on our side and call upon the Lord to strengthen the faith of our people in the true Eucharist to the presence of Christ in the Eucharist. And so we started this National Eucharistic Revival."
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Steubenville, Ohio - 21 June 2024
11. Nuns and fellow Catholics joining a Eucharistic procession through Downtown Steubenville
12. Catholics processing the Eucharist through Downtown Steubenville
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Zoe Dongas, Perpetual Pilgrim, National Eucharistic Pilgrimage:
"The pilgrimage is a really exciting opportunity for us to literally walk with Jesus, like the apostles did, across the country to Indianapolis. We're converging for different routes. So we're lucky we're on the Seton route. So we've been walking along the East Coast for the past 30 something days, with Jesus in the Eucharist, visiting different parishes, getting to walk 15 miles a day sometimes, getting to bring him to our country and let him bless bless our people."
14. Catholics kneeling as the Eucharist passes by in procession
15. Catholics processing the Eucharist through Downtown Steubenville
16. A man holding the rosary while processing with the Eucharist
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Lissette Colón, St. Peter Church member:
"It just took me back to a time that I was not born in, when Jesus must have really walked the Earth, and so many people were following him. That's what I was thinking of when I was processing."
18. Various of Catholics processing the Eucharist through Downtown Steubenville
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19. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine Ball, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem:
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Wellsburg, West Virginia - 23 June 2024
20. Drone footage of the Ohio River
21. Drone footage of the boat carrying the Eucharist down the Ohio River
22. Catholics on the Wellsburg Bridge waiting for the Eucharist
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23. SOUNDBITE (English) Aldo Penafiel, Steubenville Resident:
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