September 5, 2025 • 16 mins
Bo and Beth welcome Bishop Michael Martin to the studio to get a preview of the 2025 Eucharistic Congress in Charlotte this weekend at the Charlotte Convention Center. Go to goeucharist.com to learn more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is Good.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Morning Bet with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman, seven minutes
past eight o'clock here on News Talk eleven ten WBT,
Friday September fifth, Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman. And it
is an honor right now to welcome into the studio,
not on the phone. He's in the studio with us,
and we're so honored to have him. Bishop Michael Martin
(00:28):
of the Charlotte Catholic Diocese is with us. Good morning to.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You, Good morning, Thanks so much for having me Bo, Beth.
It's good to be with you all, especially in studio.
There's a little more familiarity rather than just talking over
the phone. So really great to be with you.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Well, exactly, we get to see your smiling face, and
I understand why you're smiling.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
You have a lot happening this weekend here in Charlotte.
Tell us about the event that's happening. It begins this
evening and everyone is invited.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah. Every year, this is the twenty first year that
the Catholic Diocese has hosted what we call a Eucharistic Congress,
which is just, you know, maybe a more formal way
of saying a gathering of faith, you know, where we
invite everyone. Really, you don't have to be Catholic. You
don't have to be you know, some uber religious person.
(01:18):
You can just be a person that's searching or trying
to find your way in life and wondering, you know,
where the Lord might be present in your life. And
so we take the Convention Center plus and just bring
faithful folks from all over western North Carolina and beyond
who come together for some conferences. We have a huge
(01:41):
concert tonight. It's all free. We really we just open
up the doors and say, hey, let's come together and
celebrate something greater than ourselves.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, in what a year, I mean, twenty twenty five
has been quite a year within the Catholic community that
the installation of a new pope, and we spent many
hours on the air watching that process and when it happens,
Neither one of us are Catholic hosting this show, but
it's a huge global story and a huge Catholic community
here in Charlotte and many other places. So when that happens,
(02:10):
and I've been on the air long enough that I've
seen several of the conclaves, and it covered those stories,
and when it happens, you really try to explain what's
happening to those who don't quite understand and make it
to understandable. And to have someone like you here and
have this event tonight in a year where there's been
so much excitement and interest in what's happening with the
(02:33):
installation of the new pope, I know that this whole
year has just been kind of had its own special
energy to it.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Absolutely, and I think the all eyes on the Catholic
Church over the last few months as we mourned the
death of Pope Francis, who was just a compelling figure
I think in the world, and then the conclave, and
then the election of Pope Leo, you know, no less
an American, you know, and so there's there's so much there.
(03:02):
As you say it, it's been a fascinating year. Uh.
And not to be a name dropper or anything, but
I was in Rome, uh in the in the spring
and actually had a meeting with then Cardinal Prevost He
and I we had some things we were working on together,
only to find out, you know, a few weeks later.
(03:22):
I'm not trying to say that my meeting with him
somehow vaulted him into the by any stretch.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
But but we can say that, yeah, exactly, that's.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
How I'm a kingmaker. But but I feel like there's
uh certainly for me personally, but I believe for the
world what it does for us is that it allows
us to pick our heads up a little bit from
our daily routines and the things that are important to us,
to to maybe say, wait a minute, there's something bigger here,
(03:53):
and what does that really mean to me personally? And
how do I interpret some of these larger dynamics in
the world in the light of my lived experience. And
I think the world was sort of looking for some
hope in religious leadership, let's just call it that more generically,
(04:14):
and I believe in Popelio we've gotten that. And certainly
to folks in the United States, there should be a
tremendous sense of acknowledgement that you know, here we are
just a country of you know, two hundred and whatever,
thirty some years old, and now someone representing our country
is leading the largest single denomination in the world. So yeah,
(04:39):
as to your point, really fascinating year this year, and
I'm excited. Obviously, all politics is local and all you know,
faith is local, you know, so you bring it down
to all right, what's happening here in Charlotte and western
North Carolina? And you know, okay, what's my faith journey?
Whatever religious affiliation I have? You know, can I find
(05:02):
some ways to be more intentional? Can I find some
ways to be more authentic in living out my faith journey?
And you know, at a time when folks understandably, you know,
you hear a lot of folks talk about being a
more spiritual than religious, which I think I understand that concept,
and yet that the nature of the spiritual journey is
(05:24):
a communal one. You know, it's not to keep it
just for myself, but it's to share it with someone else.
And the minute I do that, now there's a negotiation,
you know. And that's really what religion is. It's two
people or more trying to get together to figure out
how they're going to live their spiritual lives together. And
so we're bringing not two people together, we're bringing over
ten thousand people together to the convention Center tonight and
(05:46):
tomorrow to say, okay, how are we doing this? And
so my hope is that in our locale here in
the Charlotte metro area, but we'll have people coming in
from the western part of the state and we invite anyone,
you know, as I said, people of any faith background
or of no faith who's just seeking come listen, be
(06:07):
a part of things. We've got a full Spanish track
as well, you know, so for folks that maybe English
is not their their first language, there's that opportunity as well.
So from the Vatican of a few months ago, not
to say that, you know, Charlotte is the mini Vatican,
but again all of it is local, and so we're
(06:27):
trying to bolster faith by a large you know, gathering
like this.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Well in what a beautiful way to bolster faith then
through music. And you have a very special entertainer this evening,
and I understand that it's free, and this person has performed,
he has performed for four different popes.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Absolutely, Matt Mars. I guarantee if you come, if you
have ever heard any kind of Christian contemporary music, you
will hear something that he's produced. And it's just a
fabulous I've seen him at a number of different gatherings.
He performed at the National Eucharistic Congress last year in
(07:06):
Indianapolis and was just exceptional and just there's a sense
that through the beauty of music, we're all united in
our hearts being lifted up, you know. And I think
that's the beauty of all music that is able to
unite us in that regard.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And so.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I'm excited for tonight. It's going to be a tonight
tends to be more young adults, but you don't have to.
We're not checking your date of birth when you come in,
So everybody's welcome.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, here's some of Michael Maher as we go to break.
He will be performing tonight at seven o'clock concert, and
we're going to talk more with Bishop Michael Martin ahead
of the twenty twenty five Eucharistic Congress here in Charlotte
at Charlotte Invention Center. Stay with us on WBT because.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Hely my God, staying them my soul.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You love defends me, You love defense me.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
In a wit of.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
A loon, you love defense me, You love defens me.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yea from the WBT Old Fashioned email line GMBT show
at WBT dot com. Frequent listener Kevin says, Hey Bo
Matt in capital letters, Mar it's awesome, surely one of
my favorites.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I all have to learn to take correction with fla.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I think, I said, Michael, it's because I was thinking,
Bishop Michael Martin, that's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Your brain was just ahead of your mouth. Sometimes happens
that way.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Well, he thanks for thinking of me. First.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Well, I mean, hey, it all comes back to the
fact that you will be in attendance this weekend, and
so will Matt mar tonight doing a concert at the
Diocese of Charlotte's twenty twenty five Eucharistic Congress. It's taking
place this afternoon and evening and tomorrow, and this is
a big deal as people will see all kinds of
(09:31):
people around the convention center in Charlotte and added traffic,
and people at a base level wonder who are all
these people and what are they doing? And we're here
to tell people, by way of Bishop Michael Martin, what
it's all about. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
One of the beauties of the experience, especially tomorrow morning,
is we have a procession through the streets of Charlotte,
a eucharistic procession. And I think what that does is
at least our hope is to first of all, say
that God comes to be with us in the streets.
You know that God doesn't necessarily, you know, reside in
(10:06):
some far off place that's not accessible to us, but
rather that God wants to be with us, walking with us,
driving with us. And so we try to make that
reel by possessing with our God in the Eucharist through
the streets of Charlotte, to help all of us to
know that we're not alone on this journey. You know
that God is walking with us. And so if that
(10:29):
snarls your traffic plans tomorrow morning, I apologize in advance.
But we'll have I think between twelve and fifteen thousand
people strong aligning the streets of Charlotte and in prayer
together not just for their own needs, but also for
the needs of our community and the needs of the world.
And so I'm hopeful that people of all fates can
(10:50):
appreciate that kind of witness and that it points us
all to something greater than ourselves.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Well, I'm glad you said that people of all fates,
because that is something you're making accessible to people of
all faiths on different kinds of faith journeys, on different
levels of their faith journey. That those people can come,
they can be part, they can listen, they can experience
and start to understand maybe more about themselves and their
own faith through this.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Absolutely. I think in our world, where there's a lot
of like your email listener who uses all caps, I
think sometimes we tend to often be screaming at each
other rather than listening to each other. And so the
opportunity to come together and commit ourselves to some time
(11:38):
where we're listening and trying to understand ourselves but also
to try and understand others, I think that's something in
our culture that social media doesn't really permit, and maybe
even other types of media other than of course WBT,
which is all about listening. But I think we need
to really focus some attention on that and say, how
(12:01):
am I doing that more in my life? Am I
more screaming, Am I more capital letters? Or am I
really taking a posture that says it's better to understand
than to be understood?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Well, I mentioned what twenty twenty five has been in
many cellibratory ways, and honoring the legacy of one pope
passing and a new pope, we should also mention, of course,
a huge national story within the last couple of weeks
of what happened in Minneapolis, and we covered that story
obviously at length. And you know, this is a time
(12:34):
for the community to come together and support each other
when you have something like that happen. And I know
in your position, you get questions coming your way about
how to deal with something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Sure, I think all anytime a tragedy of any nature,
and you know, it's not about judging the depth of tragedy.
Tragedy is always personal, and my tragedy is as tragic
as anyone else's, you know, And so we're not trying
to validate someone's grief more than someone else's, but rather
to say, anytime any of us confront these tragic moments,
(13:07):
it pulls us up short, and we have to ask ourselves,
where is a God when this type of thing happens?
You know, in a church no less, you know that
you would think that there are some you know, the
word sanctuary, you know that we use in church all
the time. You would think that there are some sanctuaries
(13:28):
in our world where that we shouldn't expect that to happen.
But it's a testament to the fact that we are
in a broken world and the brokenness of the human condition.
There are no barriers to it. It can reach into
any sphere of our lives and touch us in powerful
ways that are tragic. And to think that our God
(13:49):
is not present to us in that myst One of
the things that Archbishop Hebda, who is the Archbishop of Minneapolis,
who spoke recently about this whole dynamic, one the things
he said is God was very much present in that moment,
not just because it was a church, but in the
ways in which people reacted and responded in the midst
(14:12):
of something so evil, you know. And so I would
hope that all of us would not despair in those moments,
but to try to open our eyes to say, all, right, Lord,
where are you not just in that moment of tragedy,
but in the particular difficult moments that I experience and
you experience in our everyday lives and our families, people
(14:33):
with people we love, or in other places around the world.
So I think there's always opportunity. And what Christians believe
is there's there's no place that Jesus can't enter and
raise up. There's no tomb that can't be resurrected. And
so even our worst most miserable things, God steps in
(14:58):
and brings something greater out of it. It's not why
that happens, but from it, from the evil of our
broken world, God can still raise up something even greater.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Thank you for saying that out. That's probably the most
hopeful conversation that we've had with someone about such a
tragic event. But there's so much beauty in what you
said through that tragedy. So thank you for sharing that.
And I think that that's important as we head into
the Eucharist Congress this weekend. It's this kind of message
(15:29):
that can touch people if they come out and participate.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Right And everyone who's going to walk the streets with
us tomorrow or who's going to walk through the doors
tonight or tomorrow, they all come with baggage. They all
come with issues that they're dealing with. And God meets
you there. God meets you there, and we want to
meet you there too, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
So it is the Diocese of Charlotte's twenty twenty five
Eucharistic Congress. It starts later today. There's a free concert
tonight at seven pm by Matt mar He's an international
phenomenon who has played for four Popes four if you're
coming by after work, food and beverages on hand, and
then of course Saturday things going on all day tomorrow. Correct.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, we're looking forward to having a great day and
really appreciate both of you and the team here for
bringing us on and allowing us to just share some
of that good news with our community that can always
use it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well. Thank you. It's an honor to have you in
studio and I hope you'll come again anytime.
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is Good.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Morning Bet with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman, seven minutes
past eight o'clock here on News Talk eleven ten WBT,
Friday September fifth, Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman. And it
is an honor right now to welcome into the studio,
not on the phone. He's in the studio with us,
and we're so honored to have him. Bishop Michael Martin
(00:28):
of the Charlotte Catholic Diocese is with us. Good morning to.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You, Good morning, Thanks so much for having me Bo, Beth.
It's good to be with you all, especially in studio.
There's a little more familiarity rather than just talking over
the phone. So really great to be with you.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Well, exactly, we get to see your smiling face, and
I understand why you're smiling.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
You have a lot happening this weekend here in Charlotte.
Tell us about the event that's happening. It begins this
evening and everyone is invited.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah. Every year, this is the twenty first year that
the Catholic Diocese has hosted what we call a Eucharistic Congress,
which is just, you know, maybe a more formal way
of saying a gathering of faith, you know, where we
invite everyone. Really, you don't have to be Catholic. You
don't have to be you know, some uber religious person.
(01:18):
You can just be a person that's searching or trying
to find your way in life and wondering, you know,
where the Lord might be present in your life. And
so we take the Convention Center plus and just bring
faithful folks from all over western North Carolina and beyond
who come together for some conferences. We have a huge
(01:41):
concert tonight. It's all free. We really we just open
up the doors and say, hey, let's come together and
celebrate something greater than ourselves.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, in what a year, I mean, twenty twenty five
has been quite a year within the Catholic community that
the installation of a new pope, and we spent many
hours on the air watching that process and when it happens,
Neither one of us are Catholic hosting this show, but
it's a huge global story and a huge Catholic community
here in Charlotte and many other places. So when that happens,
(02:10):
and I've been on the air long enough that I've
seen several of the conclaves, and it covered those stories,
and when it happens, you really try to explain what's
happening to those who don't quite understand and make it
to understandable. And to have someone like you here and
have this event tonight in a year where there's been
so much excitement and interest in what's happening with the
(02:33):
installation of the new pope, I know that this whole
year has just been kind of had its own special
energy to it.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Absolutely, and I think the all eyes on the Catholic
Church over the last few months as we mourned the
death of Pope Francis, who was just a compelling figure
I think in the world, and then the conclave, and
then the election of Pope Leo, you know, no less
an American, you know, and so there's there's so much there.
(03:02):
As you say it, it's been a fascinating year. Uh.
And not to be a name dropper or anything, but
I was in Rome, uh in the in the spring
and actually had a meeting with then Cardinal Prevost He
and I we had some things we were working on together,
only to find out, you know, a few weeks later.
(03:22):
I'm not trying to say that my meeting with him
somehow vaulted him into the by any stretch.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
But but we can say that, yeah, exactly, that's.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
How I'm a kingmaker. But but I feel like there's
uh certainly for me personally, but I believe for the
world what it does for us is that it allows
us to pick our heads up a little bit from
our daily routines and the things that are important to us,
to to maybe say, wait a minute, there's something bigger here,
(03:53):
and what does that really mean to me personally? And
how do I interpret some of these larger dynamics in
the world in the light of my lived experience. And
I think the world was sort of looking for some
hope in religious leadership, let's just call it that more generically,
(04:14):
and I believe in Popelio we've gotten that. And certainly
to folks in the United States, there should be a
tremendous sense of acknowledgement that you know, here we are
just a country of you know, two hundred and whatever,
thirty some years old, and now someone representing our country
is leading the largest single denomination in the world. So yeah,
(04:39):
as to your point, really fascinating year this year, and
I'm excited. Obviously, all politics is local and all you know,
faith is local, you know, so you bring it down
to all right, what's happening here in Charlotte and western
North Carolina? And you know, okay, what's my faith journey?
Whatever religious affiliation I have? You know, can I find
(05:02):
some ways to be more intentional? Can I find some
ways to be more authentic in living out my faith journey?
And you know, at a time when folks understandably, you know,
you hear a lot of folks talk about being a
more spiritual than religious, which I think I understand that concept,
and yet that the nature of the spiritual journey is
(05:24):
a communal one. You know, it's not to keep it
just for myself, but it's to share it with someone else.
And the minute I do that, now there's a negotiation,
you know. And that's really what religion is. It's two
people or more trying to get together to figure out
how they're going to live their spiritual lives together. And
so we're bringing not two people together, we're bringing over
ten thousand people together to the convention Center tonight and
(05:46):
tomorrow to say, okay, how are we doing this? And
so my hope is that in our locale here in
the Charlotte metro area, but we'll have people coming in
from the western part of the state and we invite anyone,
you know, as I said, people of any faith background
or of no faith who's just seeking come listen, be
(06:07):
a part of things. We've got a full Spanish track
as well, you know, so for folks that maybe English
is not their their first language, there's that opportunity as well.
So from the Vatican of a few months ago, not
to say that, you know, Charlotte is the mini Vatican,
but again all of it is local, and so we're
(06:27):
trying to bolster faith by a large you know, gathering
like this.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Well in what a beautiful way to bolster faith then
through music. And you have a very special entertainer this evening,
and I understand that it's free, and this person has performed,
he has performed for four different popes.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Absolutely, Matt Mars. I guarantee if you come, if you
have ever heard any kind of Christian contemporary music, you
will hear something that he's produced. And it's just a
fabulous I've seen him at a number of different gatherings.
He performed at the National Eucharistic Congress last year in
(07:06):
Indianapolis and was just exceptional and just there's a sense
that through the beauty of music, we're all united in
our hearts being lifted up, you know. And I think
that's the beauty of all music that is able to
unite us in that regard.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And so.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I'm excited for tonight. It's going to be a tonight
tends to be more young adults, but you don't have to.
We're not checking your date of birth when you come in,
So everybody's welcome.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, here's some of Michael Maher as we go to break.
He will be performing tonight at seven o'clock concert, and
we're going to talk more with Bishop Michael Martin ahead
of the twenty twenty five Eucharistic Congress here in Charlotte
at Charlotte Invention Center. Stay with us on WBT because.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Hely my God, staying them my soul.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You love defends me, You love defense me.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
In a wit of.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
A loon, you love defense me, You love defens me.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yea from the WBT Old Fashioned email line GMBT show
at WBT dot com. Frequent listener Kevin says, Hey Bo
Matt in capital letters, Mar it's awesome, surely one of
my favorites.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I all have to learn to take correction with fla.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I think, I said, Michael, it's because I was thinking,
Bishop Michael Martin, that's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Your brain was just ahead of your mouth. Sometimes happens
that way.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Well, he thanks for thinking of me. First.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Well, I mean, hey, it all comes back to the
fact that you will be in attendance this weekend, and
so will Matt mar tonight doing a concert at the
Diocese of Charlotte's twenty twenty five Eucharistic Congress. It's taking
place this afternoon and evening and tomorrow, and this is
a big deal as people will see all kinds of
(09:31):
people around the convention center in Charlotte and added traffic,
and people at a base level wonder who are all
these people and what are they doing? And we're here
to tell people, by way of Bishop Michael Martin, what
it's all about. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
One of the beauties of the experience, especially tomorrow morning,
is we have a procession through the streets of Charlotte,
a eucharistic procession. And I think what that does is
at least our hope is to first of all, say
that God comes to be with us in the streets.
You know that God doesn't necessarily, you know, reside in
(10:06):
some far off place that's not accessible to us, but
rather that God wants to be with us, walking with us,
driving with us. And so we try to make that
reel by possessing with our God in the Eucharist through
the streets of Charlotte, to help all of us to
know that we're not alone on this journey. You know
that God is walking with us. And so if that
(10:29):
snarls your traffic plans tomorrow morning, I apologize in advance.
But we'll have I think between twelve and fifteen thousand
people strong aligning the streets of Charlotte and in prayer
together not just for their own needs, but also for
the needs of our community and the needs of the world.
And so I'm hopeful that people of all fates can
(10:50):
appreciate that kind of witness and that it points us
all to something greater than ourselves.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Well, I'm glad you said that people of all fates,
because that is something you're making accessible to people of
all faiths on different kinds of faith journeys, on different
levels of their faith journey. That those people can come,
they can be part, they can listen, they can experience
and start to understand maybe more about themselves and their
own faith through this.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Absolutely. I think in our world, where there's a lot
of like your email listener who uses all caps, I
think sometimes we tend to often be screaming at each
other rather than listening to each other. And so the
opportunity to come together and commit ourselves to some time
(11:38):
where we're listening and trying to understand ourselves but also
to try and understand others, I think that's something in
our culture that social media doesn't really permit, and maybe
even other types of media other than of course WBT,
which is all about listening. But I think we need
to really focus some attention on that and say, how
(12:01):
am I doing that more in my life? Am I
more screaming, Am I more capital letters? Or am I
really taking a posture that says it's better to understand
than to be understood?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Well, I mentioned what twenty twenty five has been in
many cellibratory ways, and honoring the legacy of one pope
passing and a new pope, we should also mention, of course,
a huge national story within the last couple of weeks
of what happened in Minneapolis, and we covered that story
obviously at length. And you know, this is a time
(12:34):
for the community to come together and support each other
when you have something like that happen. And I know
in your position, you get questions coming your way about
how to deal with something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Sure, I think all anytime a tragedy of any nature,
and you know, it's not about judging the depth of tragedy.
Tragedy is always personal, and my tragedy is as tragic
as anyone else's, you know, And so we're not trying
to validate someone's grief more than someone else's, but rather
to say, anytime any of us confront these tragic moments,
(13:07):
it pulls us up short, and we have to ask ourselves,
where is a God when this type of thing happens?
You know, in a church no less, you know that
you would think that there are some you know, the
word sanctuary, you know that we use in church all
the time. You would think that there are some sanctuaries
(13:28):
in our world where that we shouldn't expect that to happen.
But it's a testament to the fact that we are
in a broken world and the brokenness of the human condition.
There are no barriers to it. It can reach into
any sphere of our lives and touch us in powerful
ways that are tragic. And to think that our God
(13:49):
is not present to us in that myst One of
the things that Archbishop Hebda, who is the Archbishop of Minneapolis,
who spoke recently about this whole dynamic, one the things
he said is God was very much present in that moment,
not just because it was a church, but in the
ways in which people reacted and responded in the midst
(14:12):
of something so evil, you know. And so I would
hope that all of us would not despair in those moments,
but to try to open our eyes to say, all, right, Lord,
where are you not just in that moment of tragedy,
but in the particular difficult moments that I experience and
you experience in our everyday lives and our families, people
(14:33):
with people we love, or in other places around the world.
So I think there's always opportunity. And what Christians believe
is there's there's no place that Jesus can't enter and
raise up. There's no tomb that can't be resurrected. And
so even our worst most miserable things, God steps in
(14:58):
and brings something greater out of it. It's not why
that happens, but from it, from the evil of our
broken world, God can still raise up something even greater.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Thank you for saying that out. That's probably the most
hopeful conversation that we've had with someone about such a
tragic event. But there's so much beauty in what you
said through that tragedy. So thank you for sharing that.
And I think that that's important as we head into
the Eucharist Congress this weekend. It's this kind of message
(15:29):
that can touch people if they come out and participate.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Right And everyone who's going to walk the streets with
us tomorrow or who's going to walk through the doors
tonight or tomorrow, they all come with baggage. They all
come with issues that they're dealing with. And God meets
you there. God meets you there, and we want to
meet you there too, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
So it is the Diocese of Charlotte's twenty twenty five
Eucharistic Congress. It starts later today. There's a free concert
tonight at seven pm by Matt mar He's an international
phenomenon who has played for four Popes four if you're
coming by after work, food and beverages on hand, and
then of course Saturday things going on all day tomorrow. Correct.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, we're looking forward to having a great day and
really appreciate both of you and the team here for
bringing us on and allowing us to just share some
of that good news with our community that can always
use it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well. Thank you. It's an honor to have you in
studio and I hope you'll come again anytime.
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