Playing for the One Whose Image You Bear

And Father, yeah, Father Burke and Bishop, can you share with our, um, our viewers or listeners about the miracle that took place what, about 800 years ago in Orvieto? I think it's a, a remarkable story and, I mean, even scientists that are not Catholic and Christian have tried to disprove it, and they don't, they don't know how to-

Yeah, there was a-

... you know

... a, a priest, Bohemian, German, I read a couple different things, and he was having some doubts concerning the real presence in the Eucharist.

And as he was elevating the host, it started to bleed.

And it bled onto the corporal, and that's what's, that's what they, they, they have today.

So that was the, the Eucharistic miracle that, that took place, not in Orvieto, not too far from it.

But I guess the Holy Father at the time was here and asked for it to come here, so it's, it's remained here ever since.

And that's, as we were sharing with our pilgrims, it's one of many miracles.

So it was, it was beautiful.

Yesterday morning we were in Assisi, and we visited the tomb of now Saint Carlo Acutis, who did a...

You know this 15, 14 or 15-year-old young man who died of leukemia, uh, went to mass every day after his first communion and, uh, made a website of all these Eucharistic miracles all over the world.

And so to go from that right to then Orvieto where there was a Eucharistic miracle that he had, you know, documented on his website.

He died only 20 years ago.

And, uh, so all of these connections to the Eucharistic miracles.

And so I know we have a few non-Catholics on our pilgrimage who have come with spouses or friends.

And, uh, even one of our, our guides, um, who is Jewish, I was speaking to him on the bus ride and, you know, he was fascinated by it.

And, uh, he's like, "I, I need to learn more about this."

Hmm.

You know? And I said, as...

You know, I wasn't raised Catholic, and when I started hearing about these Eucharistic miracles, you know, as a, a math guy, I'm like, "Okay, this is either the craziest thing that people are making up, or if it's true, [chuckles] then I really need to take this seriously." And, uh, of course, you know what side I, I came out on, and-

Yeah

... it's not one miracle in Orvieto.

They're all over the world.

And, uh, they, they've had scientists study these miracles.