“During the Holy Mass, the host has changed into live Flesh and the wine has changed into live Blood. The Flesh was real Flesh and the Blood was real Blood. The Flesh consists of the muscular tissue of the heart and remained in the same natural state for twelve centuries.”
One of the most hardly understood belief in the Catholic faith is the presence of the Son of God in the Holy Eucharist. Since our eyes tend to believe only what we actually see, it is not easy for us to accept that a piece of bread could contain real flesh and real blood of a real Human Person as well as of the Divine. This is a deep mystery that in reality, disturbs the faith of many Catholic Christians.
But faith is no longer faith if we are only to comprehend what our senses can see or feel. God understands our weakness and gifts us with surprising miracles to enable our mind and heart to experience the real presence of the Son in flesh and blood with a much deeper faith and devotion.
For this, I would like to share with you one of the many living proofs of the reality of Jesus’ presence in the Most Holy Eucharist. The complexity of this divine mystery in the Holy Eucharist was unfolded into reality right before our very eyes.
A EUCHARISTIC MIRACLE in Lanciano, Italy in the 8th Century A.D.
The first and greatest Eucharistic Miracle of the Catholic Church took place in 8th century A.D. in Ancient Anxanum, in the city of Frentanese in the little Church of St. Legontian.
A Basilian monk’s doubted Jesus’ real presence in the Eucharist. During the mass, the Lord chose to reveal the authenticity of this ever great mystery to him. After the two-fold consecration, the host has changed into live Flesh and the wine has changed into live Blood, which coagulated into five globules, irregular and differing in shape and size.
The Host-Flesh has the same dimensions as the large host used today in the Latin church; it is light brown and appears rose-colored when lighted from the back. And the Blood is coagulated and has an earthy color resembling the yellow of ochre.
Several ecclesiastical investigations were conducted and taken up. Finally, in 1981, a scientific investigation was conducted by the famous and most respected scientist, Prof. Odoardo Linoli, an eminent Professor in Anatomy and Pathological Histology and in Chemistry and Clinical Microscopy, together with Prof. Ruggero Bertelli of the University of Siena.
The analysis was done with unquestionable scientific precision documented with a series of microscopic photographs and these were the results they submitted:
• The Flesh is real Flesh and the Blood is real Blood belonging to the human species;
• The Flesh is a “HEART” complete in its essential structure including the muscular tissue;
• In the Flesh are: the myocardium, the endocardium, the vagus nerve and also the left ventricle of the heart for the large thickness of the myocardium;
• The Flesh and the Blood have the same blood-type: AB (Blood-type identical to that which Prof. Baima Bollone uncovered in the Holy Shroud of Turin);
• In the Blood, there are proteins in the same normal proportions (percentage-wise) as are found in the sero-proteic make-up of the fresh normal blood;
• In the Blood, there are also minerals: chlorides, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, sodium, and calcium.
• The PRESERVATION OF THE FLESH AND OF THE BLOOD, which was left in their natural state for twelve centuries and exposed to the action of atmospheric and biological agents, REMAIN AN EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON.
Tests subsequently done on the subject indicated it came from human tissue “most similar to the heart muscle … as it appears under the strains of agony.”
The Eucharistic Miracles in Poland, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in Lanciano and Siena, Italy, in Santarem, Portugal, and other places, though years apart, must have come from the same man having exact same DNA.
Our Church leaders are always careful to test potential miracles and rule out natural causes. At present, there are more than a hundred Eucharistic miracles and all Eucharistic miracles can still be found in the places of occurrence, intact and were kept for the faithful to see and adore.
Jesus, our Lord, is alive and present in the Holy Eucharist, whether we believe it or not!
As we celebrate today, Sunday, the “Solemnity of CORPUS CHRISTI,” we honor the real presence of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Let us be WITNESSES and SHARE Jesus!
Challenge yourselves and SHARE this miracle with as many as you can.
Little White Flower
Senior Contributor
Little White Flower is an art enthusiast who studied Visual Communication at the University of the Philippines Diliman. The Little White Flower, as she would like herself to be known, is the previous head of the Ministry on Worship & Liturgy. Her admiration to St. Therese, as the “little flower of Jesus,” made her choose her blog name. Preferred to contribute in the simplest and littlest way she can, she finds passion in seeing the beauty in the tiniest things in life. Loving God and the works of His creation amazes her so much. Her aim in life: “Just be a little flower, bloom in the garden of the Lord.”
