Lift the City - a Catholic Eucharistic flash mob

A Eucharistic flash mob in the centre of Preston, organised by the Capuchin Franciscans on Ascension Thursday 2011.

A small team of Catholic evangelists mingled with the crowd to hand out cards and explain what was going on. Here are some of the reactions....

"What is this about? What is happening? What is this about?"

One young girl said: "I've not seen anything like this since Church."

"Are they doing this all day? ... Will they be doing it again? ... Are they doing this any where else?"

Two young women asked: "Why does God allow hurt and pain in the world?" They agreed it was not God's fault but ours. Then they asked: "Why doesn't Jesus come again?" We explained that He is here in the form of bread, but would come again and we invited them to think about Him now.

"Is it religious? What is inside that thing?"

A man said: "What is that guy doing?" An old woman with him replied: "That's Jesus. Show respect."

"This is so moving! It is the first time I have seen it done outside. I can't wait to tell my parish priest!"


Thanks to Sean Zaniboni, Gerardo Gonzalez and the team for filming and producing the video.

To find out more, visit http://acertainhope.blogspot.com/2011/06/making-of-eucharistic-flash-mob.html

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[friarallthumbs]

WONDERFUL, BROTHERS! truly a joy and inspiration. congratulations! warm fraternal greetings from the Philippines!

[CapuchinFranciscan]

@friarallthumbs Thank you, Brother :-{)}

[popularny007]

dziekuje...., thank you, greetings from Poland

[SkellingtonKing1]

@JustineK45 It is a public area, why can't they express their religion?

[MrLoudmouthspeaker]

@gi2bull well one should know that the roman catholic church is built on pagan tradtions and beliefs... the popes and its early fathers created their own false dogma to feather their own nest.. we know that the church used pagan churches for their own churches...

the catholic church is rife with its own false beliefs including its famious maryology.. yeh good one hey

[JustineK45]

Pathetic and rude intrusion of antiquated nonsense into the public arena. Keep it in your churches. :)

[gi2bull]

@MrLoudmouthspeaker You clearly belong to one of the heretical churches thought up by some creative people. A friend created his own church bcause he is totally convinced that his personal interpretation of the Bible is from God and he has to share it with the world. Your church and his church are the same and differ only in the details of creativity. The Bible warned about these false teachings. Please continue to search for the original Church that holds the truth that prevailed as promised.

[pjb1983]

"and Oprah can't explain Him away." Amen, Father, amen!

[gespb32]

@AegeanKing I must agree, I believe their intentions are noble it should not be like this at all.

[leagueofstmichael]

Very interesting.

[werebee]

This is a good idea. My Satanist cult and I plan to do one similar at the local mall! Keep up the good work, we religious folks have to stay together!