Eucharistic Miracles
Eucharistic Miracles have occurred for over 1,200 years, yet many people do not know about them.
This does not make them any less real.
Eucharistic Miracles are additional ways through which God presents Himself to us, through which He more clearly manifests His Real Presence in the Eucharist.
If you want to learn more, this page provides resources.
Three key ones are:
1) The Real Presence Eucharistic Education and Adoration Society:
http://www.therealpresence.org/
&
http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/engl_mir.htm
2) The Vatican International Exhibit of Eucharistic Miracles, presented in/around St. Louis and the Midwest, by The Body of Christ Outreach, a group of couples who are members of the All Saints Parish in St. Peters, MO.
http://bodyofchristoutreach.org/exhibit.htm
and
http://stlouisreview.com/article/2011-02-09/eucharistic-miracles
3) Shows on EWTN, including “Forgotten Heritage: Europe and the Eucharist” and “Miracles of the Eucharist.”
4) Archbishop Carlson’s “Before the Cross: The Eucharist is the Center of All”
http://stlouisreview.com/article/2011-03-16/cross-eucharist
I hope this page, and the insights they contain, may help you increase/deepen your faith, too.
Thanks,
Mike
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In the year 750, over a millennium ago, a priest questioned Jesus’ presence in the Eucharist. When he celebrates Mass the next day, the host becomes Flesh, the wine Blood.
Tests in the 1970s showed the Flesh to be heart tissue and the blood to be type AB. Neither heart tissue nor blood last more than many hours after death, and yet both are still present, still visible to each and every one of us, today, over 1,200 years later, in Italy today.
--> http://therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/english_pdf/Lanciano1.pdf
--> http://therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/english_pdf/Lanciano2.pdf
Images, courtesy The Real Presence
A woman, to preserve her purity, escapes her attackers by jumping from a high window. She injures herself, ultimately becoming paralyzed. She entrusts herself and her suffering to Jesus. Through this, she relives the sufferings of the Passion over 180 times. For the last 13 years of her life she lived on the Eucharist alone.
Jesus appeared to her, saying “I have put you in the world so that you may draw life only from Me, to bear witness to the world how precious the Eucharist is. [...] “The strongest chain that keeps souls in bondage with Satan is the flesh and the sins of impurity. Never has there been such a spread of vices, wickedness and crimes as there is today! Never has there been so much sin [...] The Eucharist - My Body and Blood - Behold, the Eucharist is the salvation of the world.”
--> Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa, 1904-1955
In yet another, Jesus presents himself to a nun,
“with His right hand bestowing blessings and His
left hand pointing towards His Sacred Heart, which
emitted two rays: one pale; the other a bright red.
These rays represent the Water and Blood that
came out of Jesus’ pierced side while on the Cross.
This symbolizes the purifying virtues of Baptism
and Confession and the regenerative virtue of the
Holy Eucharist.” [3]
--> http://therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/english_pdf/Kowalska.pdf
The Divine Mercy Message and Devotion
http://thedivinemercy.org/message/
The miracle of Argentina...
http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/Frontpage/amazing-video-eucharist-is-our-lord.html
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What is the Lord trying to tell us?
How can I learn more?
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Jesus gave the ultimate sacrifice by offering Himself to die on the Cross for every one of us, for every one of our sins, and by rising on the third day, Easter Sunday.
On Holy Thursday, the night before He died, Jesus celebrated the Last Supper with His apostles. At the Last Supper He instituted the sacrament of the Eucharist, which, at every single Mass, is the re-presentation of His sacrifice.
As the Catechism of the Catholic Church states:
(http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a3.htm)
“1323 "At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet 'in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.'"135”
The Eucharist is both a mystery and a miracle, and yet many do not understand it at all, and none of us understand it fully.
One definition of a Mystery:
That which can never be fully explained
and that which can never be fully exhausted.
God understands that we cannot fully understand His love, and He also understands that many, too many, do not understand His Presence in the Eucharist.
Many do not understand that the Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
While our faith is not founded on Eucharistic miracles - indeed, they first started 700+ years after Jesus’ death - Eucharistic miracles can help us better understand our faith.
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Through the Vatican, with the assistance of The Real Presence Eucharistic Education and Adoration Association, has compiled a group of over 120 Eucharistic miracles.
More can be learned about them via their website -
http://therealpresence.org/ (keep scrolling down on this page)
and
http://therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/engl_mir.htm
and via an Exhibit which is available to anyone to share.
One such group making the exhibit available in/around St. Louis and the Midwest is The Body of Christ Outreach, at All Saints Parish in St. Peters, MO.
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Additional information is available from many sources, including EWTN / Eternal Word Television (and Radio) Network:
Search for “miracles” on your DVR and you should find at least:
“Miracles of the Eucharist”
by Bob and Penny Lord
http://www.bobandpennylord.com/euch.htm
“Forgotten Heritage: Europe and the Eucharist”
by Fr. Owen Gorman & Fr. John Hogan:
http://www.ewtn.com/series/shows/forgottenHeritage/forgottenHeritage.asp
and
There infinite examples of why the Catholic Church is the universal Church, only one of which can be two Irish priests talking about Eucharistic Miracles in Irondale, Alabama, USA.
EWTN can be found at:
Radio:
AM: AM 1460 KHOJ and AM 1080 WRYT in St. Louis
Sirius: Channel 129 & 130
at&t: Channel 562
Charter: Channel 865
DirecTV: Channel 370
Dish: Channel 261 / 9417
http://www.ewtn.com/channelfinder/
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“And just as the Apostles
(who, with the eyes of the body,
only saw His flesh),
contemplating with the eyes of faith,
believed that He was God,
so too we, seeing with our bodily eyes the bread and wine,
believe that the Most Holy Body and Blood are present, living and true, in the Eucharist.
In this manner the Lord is always present in the midst of His faithful, just as He Himself promised when He said: “Behold, I am with you until the end of the world”
(Mt 28:20).
- St. Francis of Assisi
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References, to miracle references atop this page:
[1A] http://therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/english_pdf/Lanciano1.pdf
[1B] http://therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/english_pdf/Lanciano2.pdf
[2] http://therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/english_pdf/Dacosta.pdf
[3] http://therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/english_pdf/Kowalska.pdf
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