Thousands of Catholics worship in downtown Denver for procession traveling across U.S. | Denver Metro News [Video]

The heart of Denver’s Catholic community was packed to the brim Sunday in an event to revive belief in one of the church’s core teachings.

The pews of the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in downtown Denver were full and pilgrims took up standing room on the peripheries of the church and spilled out into the grass courtyard outside.

The Mass itself commemorated what every other Sunday service has during the church’s season of Ordinary Time.

But this was no ordinary Mass.

More than 4,000 believers came for the procession of the Eucharist — bread that Catholics believe is the body of Christ — which has been traveling across the country as it passed through downtown Denver.

Denver’s Archbishop Samuel Aquila began the procession …