Deepertruth: At every Holy Mass a Eucharistic Miracle Takes Place

 At every Holy Mass a Eucharistic Miracle Takes Place 7/12/2023

 Fr. Spitzer reminds us that a Eucharistic Miracle

 occurs every day, at every Holy Mass across the world when the substance of bread and wine is transformed into the substance of Jesus’ body and blood. 

However, the term “Eucharistic miracle" can also refer to extraordinary empirical signs of Jesus’ presence in the Eucharist, such as bleeding hosts or the transmutation of a consecrated host into a piece of cardiac muscle tissue.

“For us believers what we have seen is something that we have always believed. . . If our Lord is speaking to us by giving us this sign, it certainly needs a response from us.” —Bishop Cyril Mar Baselice, Archbishop of the diocese of Trivandrum on the  Eucharistic Miracle at Chirattakonam, India

Some notable Eucharistic miracles happened years and years ago (i.e., the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano, Italy, in the 8th century and the Eucharistic Miracle of Santarem, Portugal, in the 13th century). Others have happened in more recent history, such as the scientifically proven Eucharistic miracles of Buenos Aires in 1992-1996. However, there is a handful that has taken place in just the past twenty years. Below are four stories of approved and recent Eucharistic miracles:

1. Legnica, Poland, 2013
2. Chirattakonam, India, 2001
3. Tixtla, Mexico, 2006
4. Sokolka, Poland, 2008