{"id":5448,"date":"2021-06-06T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T17:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5448"},"modified":"2021-06-06T11:46:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T18:46:18","slug":"corpus-christi-a-local-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5448","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi &#8211; A local film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ei_CZp4zyVg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Feast_of_Corpus_Christi\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Feast_of_Corpus_Christi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Feast of Corpus Christi<\/a>, and what a perfect moment to mention an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/faithprevails\/about\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/faithprevails\/about\" target=\"_blank\">energetic young local lady<\/a> from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.starofthesea.net\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.starofthesea.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Lady Star of the Sea<\/a> Catholic Church near Seattle produced this short film <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/faithprevails\/home\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/faithprevails\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Faith Prevails: The Miracle of Bolsena<\/a> about the Eucharistic Miracle of Bolsena-Orvieto in 1263. She was inspired to make the film after she participated in a play about the event written by her local pastor. Over 1800 volunteer hours were logged from the 20+ individuals who participated as cast and crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film follows the story of Fr. Peter of Prague, a priest doubtful of the Real Presence. After a pilgrimage to help his unbelief, he was celebrating Mass in the tiny <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basilicasantacristina.it\/index.php\/it\/il-miracolo\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.basilicasantacristina.it\/index.php\/it\/il-miracolo\" target=\"_blank\">Church of St. Christina<\/a> when the consecrated Host began to bleed. It is said that this miracle, in conjunction with the visions of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juliana_of_Li%C3%A8ge\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juliana_of_Li%C3%A8ge\" target=\"_blank\">St.\u00a0Juliana of Li\u00e8ge<\/a>, caused\u00a0Pope Urban IV to institute the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Feast_of_Corpus_Christi\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Feast_of_Corpus_Christi\" target=\"_blank\">Feast of Corpus Christi<\/a> for the universal Catholic Church. The feast has been celebrated ever since and the corporal that held the host can still be seen on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opsm.it\/corpus-domini-celebrazioni-ed-eventi-in-duomo-accesso-gratuito-nel-pomeriggio-di-domenica-6-giugno\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.opsm.it\/corpus-domini-celebrazioni-ed-eventi-in-duomo-accesso-gratuito-nel-pomeriggio-di-domenica-6-giugno\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public display in the Duomo di Orvieto<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi, and what a perfect moment to mention an energetic young local lady from Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church near Seattle produced this short film Faith Prevails: The Miracle of Bolsena about the Eucharistic Miracle of Bolsena-Orvieto in 1263. She was inspired to make the film after she participated in a play about the event written by her local pastor. Over 1800 volunteer hours were logged from the 20+ individuals who&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5448\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1pS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5455,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448\/revisions\/5455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}