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(OSV News) — While many Catholics today do not believe, as Pew Research reported a few years ago, that the Eucharist is Jesus — body, blood, soul and divinity — it’s not at all hard for 4-year-old Joseph Paul of Steubenville, Ohio, to believe. He knows.
“Bye-bye, Jesus!” little Joseph yelled to our Lord from the banks of the Ohio River at the marina in Steubenville as the sternwheeler carrying the Most Blessed Sacrament set off on its journey down the Ohio River June 23. The procession was part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Route.
Leading the Eucharistic procession down the river were Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling- Charleston and the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Steubenville, Bishop Edward M. Lohse of Kalamazoo, Michigan, as well as priests, seminarians and laity from the two dioceses.
Also aboard the “Boater-cade” were perpetual pilgrims on the Seton Route and the route’s chaplain, Father Roger Landry, who is a Catholic chaplain at Columbia University and the Thomas Merton Institute for Catholic Life in New York. A priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, he is also one of the official preachers for the National Eucharistic Revival.
The perpetual pilgrims on the Seton Route left New Haven, Connecticut, May 17 and have traveled through 13 dioceses since then. The pilgrimage arrived in West Virginia June 20 in Weirton and, after a Eucharistic procession in the city that day and other events there and across the river, the perpetual pilgrims took to the waters of the Ohio River with our Lord for the June 23 Eucharistic procession.
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“Bye-bye, Jesus!” little Joseph yelled to our Lord from the banks of the Ohio River at the marina in Steubenville as the sternwheeler carrying the Most Blessed Sacrament set off on its journey down the Ohio River June 23. The procession was part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Route.
A child’s innocent faith
The Paul family, of Holy Family Parish in Steubenville, was among hundreds of Catholics from the city who came to the marina that morning. Little Joseph joyfully waved to our Lord as he watched the sternwheeler make its way down the river. “Bye, Jesus,” he said once again. Catholics who don’t believe in Christ’s real presence can learn a lot from little Joseph.Leading the Eucharistic procession down the river were Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling- Charleston and the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Steubenville, Bishop Edward M. Lohse of Kalamazoo, Michigan, as well as priests, seminarians and laity from the two dioceses.
Also aboard the “Boater-cade” were perpetual pilgrims on the Seton Route and the route’s chaplain, Father Roger Landry, who is a Catholic chaplain at Columbia University and the Thomas Merton Institute for Catholic Life in New York. A priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, he is also one of the official preachers for the National Eucharistic Revival.
The perpetual pilgrims on the Seton Route left New Haven, Connecticut, May 17 and have traveled through 13 dioceses since then. The pilgrimage arrived in West Virginia June 20 in Weirton and, after a Eucharistic procession in the city that day and other events there and across the river, the perpetual pilgrims took to the waters of the Ohio River with our Lord for the June 23 Eucharistic procession.
Blessing spots along the route
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Amazing photos: Sternwheeler carries Blessed Sacrament down Ohio River
The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage brings Christ down the Ohio River on a sternwheeler.
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