US Catholics look for Eucharistic revival with national pilgrimage

(25 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Steubenville, Ohio - 23 June 2024
1. Eucharistic procession onto a boat on the Ohio River
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Aldo Penafiel, Steubenville Resident:
"You like the boat? Do you know who's on the boat? Jesus. Yeah."
3. Various of nuns and other Catholics kneeling at the launch of the Eucharist on Ohio River
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bishop Mark Brennan, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia:
"We will be carrying Jesus and the Blessed Sacrament, the Eucharist, downstream on the Ohio River, from here in Steubenville, Ohio, to Wheeling, West Virginia."
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5. Various of priests and Bishops walking with the monstrance, a vessel in which the consecrated eucharistic host is carried in processions
6. Boat carrying the Eucharist on the Ohio River
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Aldo Penafiel, Steubenville Resident:
"This is cool because we get to see him the way that he was in the Gospels, paraded around, followed by hundreds and thousands of people on boats the way that he was in the gospel, too. It just it brings the gospel to life and it makes it, incredible for me and my family to get to participate in."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wellsburg, West Virginia - 23 June 2024
8. Various drone footage of the boat carrying the Eucharist down the Ohio River ++MUTE++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Steubenville, Ohio - 23 June 2024
9. 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.
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10. Priests and Bishops loading the monstrance, a vessel in which the consecrated eucharistic host is carried in processions, onto a river boat
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Bishop Mark Brennan, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia:
"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."
12. Nuns and fellow Catholics watching the Eucharist process down the Ohio River toward Wheeling, West Virginia
13. 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."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Steubenville, Ohio - 21 June 2024
14. Catholics processing the Eucharist through Downtown Steubenville
15. Catholics kneeling as the Eucharist passes by in procession
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Zoe Dongas, Perpetual Pilgrim, National Eucharistic Pilgrimage:
"So we've been walking along the East Coast for the past 30 something days, with Jesus and 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."
17. Catholics processing the Eucharist through Downtown Steubenville
18. A man holding the rosary while processing with the Eucharist
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Lissette Colón, St. Peter's 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."
20. Catholics processing the Eucharist through Downtown Steubenville
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Zoe Dongas, Perpetual Pilgrim, National Eucharistic Pilgrimage:
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