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...in the Eucharist was celebrating Mass at a monastery.

As he spoke the words of the consecration the host changed into a circle of "flesh" and the wine transformed into visible "blood". The "flesh" remained intact but the "blood" subsequently divided into five separate globules. He later decided to weigh the "blood" globules and found to his amazement that any combination of the globules was equal in weight to any other combination and that the smallest globule weighed exactly the same as the largest - clearly defying any natural explanation. In 1970 samples were taken of both the "flesh" and the "blood" and were sent to a number of laboratories for rigorous microscopic, biochemical and other scientific evaluation. They found:

Bread in mass became flesh in Lanciano, Italy, around A.D. 700 it is still fresh to this day and was lab tested for verification

to preserve it. The "blood" sample was found to be human blood, type AB. The flesh was found to be of the same type as well. Which is the same blood type found on the Shroud of Turin (burial cloth of Jesus). The proteins found in the blood sample were consistent with proteins found in fresh human blood. These proteins are not found in blood only 30 minutes after death. Despite the fact that the container housing the flesh and blood from the Eucharist was not sealed for more than 1200 years the physical reality of Jesus real presence in the Eucharist has been preserved for all to observe and renew their faith. Other Eucharistic miracles have taken the form of the bread wafer bleeding or hovering over people. There are many saints who lived solely on the Eucharist as well. Two examples are: Bl. Catherine of Racconigi who died in 1547ad, also a stigmatist, lived on the Holy Eucharist alone for 10 years. Bl. Elizabeth the Good who died in 1420ad was known not to have eaten for nearly three years with exception of Holy Communion. The followers of Satan believe in the real presence Satanist to be most offensive to God take what he revealed and do the opposite. Satanist have black masses where their primary focus is to profane Jesus' real presence in a consecrated host which was stolen from a Catholic Church. Satanist and real witches can tell the difference between 1 consecrated host amoungs a 1000 unconsecrated hosts. When a former Satanist was asked how they could tell the difference he replied Because of the hate, Because of the burning hate I would feel toward that host, apart from all the others.

Eucharist
The body, blood, soul, and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ under the appearance of bread and wine. Could Jesus appear in a different form if he wanted to? Jesus appeared in a different form to the disciples on the road to emmaus (Mk 16:12).

There is far more scriptural, historical and miraculous witnesses to this truth than discussed here. If you want to learn some more you can go here:
1 the container that held the "flesh" was not sealed so that the Eucharistic host at the center of the "flesh" was no longer present. The "flesh" was found to be striated muscular tissue of the myocardium (the wall of the heart), of human origin and contained absolutely no trace of any substances that could have been used www.practicalapologetics.blogspot.com and if you want to contact me with any questions my email is bdscatholic@yahoo.com

Jn 6:48-58 I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh." The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" So Jesus said to them, "Amen Amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food , and my blood is real drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever." This text is loaded. Take notice that Jesus says that he is the bread from heaven and that we must eat him to have everlasting life. Also note that Jesus repeats the saying he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life three times and does not...

...change his teaching to explain to his audience that he was speaking symbolically. In fact Jesus starts out using the greek word phago for eat but after he gets challenged about eating his flesh Jesus doesnt lighten up and say he was only speaking symbolically but he intensifies his argument in vs. 54 by using the word trogo for eat which means to gnaw. Trogo is only use six times in the New Testament; four times in Jn 6, once in at the last supper in Johns gospel, and once in Matthew. Jesus is not talking symbolically here not just because of the language used but also because there is a hebrew idiom concerning the phrase eating flesh and every time it is used figuratively it is used to hate or to mock or utter slanders like in Ps 27:2 and Is 49:26 for example. The RSV version says udder slanders but the KJV says to eat my flesh. So if taken figuratively Jesus would be saying if you hate me then you will have eternal life. That makes no sense. Jesus also in the same series of verses mentions that the bread that he gives is greater than the manna of old. If taking Jesus figuratively that would mean a symbol is greater than a reality. Not only is that not logical but it also breaks the laws of typology. The archetype is always greater than the type. In vs. 66 (7 verses after Jesus finishes explaining the Eucharist) Jesus disciples (not the apostles) quit following him because they were taking him literally and could not accept the teaching. Whenever his followers misunderstood what Jesus meant Jesus corrected them like in Mt 16:5-12. Jesus lets his followers go because there was no need to correct what they were thinking because they had got it right and rejected it. Jesus was God as all Christians believe so that means Jesus did not sin. So would Jesus swear a false oath? Of course not. If you notice Jesus when explaining the Eucharist he swears an oath twice. When he said Amen Amen (some translations will say I tell you the truth) he was swearing an oath as Num 5:21-22 shows that saying Amen Amen is swearing an oath. At the last supper when Jesus celebrated the first mass he said:

Mt 26:26-29 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is my body." And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. On of my favorite quotes from St. Cyril of Jerusalem (315ad 386ad) puts it so simply: Since Christ Himself has said, This is My Body who shall dare to doubt that it is His Body? Jesus said this is my blood which is poured out for our forgiveness. Did Jesus pour out symbolic blood for our forgiveness or did he pour out his real blood? Paul thought that at communion we partake of the body and blood of Christ in his letter the Corinthians 1 Cor 10:16 The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord? 1 Cor 11:27-29 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself. This last verse shows that one profanes Jesus and renders judgment on himself by receiving communion in an unworthy manner. Lets use this analogy: If you punch a picture of Obama do you go to jail for it? No. If you punch Obama do you go to jail for it? Yes. So why would you receive judgment (the King James version uses damnation for judgment) for profaning a symbol? What was the view of the Christians in the early church immediately after the apostles? Ignatius of Antioch [50-117 AD] Epistle to the Smyraeans 6:27:1

"Take note of those who hold heterodox opinions on the grace of Jesus Christ which has come to us, and see how contrary their opinions are to the mind of God. . . . They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, flesh which suffered for our sins and which that Father, in his goodness, raised up again. They who deny the gift of God are perishing in their disputes" Irenaeus of Lyons [120-180 AD] Adversus Haereses (Book V, Chapter 2) When Christ visited us in his grace, he did not come to what did not belong to him: also, by shedding his true blood for us, and exhibiting to us his true flesh in the Eucharist, he conferred upon our flesh the capacity of salvation... Cyril of Jerusalem, St [315-386 AD] Catechetical Lecture 19:7 "The bread and the wine of the Eucharist before the holy invocation of the adorable Trinity were simple bread and wine, but the invocation having been made, the bread becomes the body of Christ and the wine the blood of Christ" Theodoret [393-457 AD] (Dialogue 3) "They do not admit Eucharists and oblations, because they do not confess the Eucharist to be flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ which suffered for our sins and which of His goodness the Father raised... Eucharistic miracles Eucharistic miracles are miracles upon miracles. At mass a miracle takes place in the changing of the bread and wine into the substance of God yet still under the appearance of bread and wine. Eucharistic miracles are when not just the substance changes into God but the appearance changes as well. There are many of these miracles in existence today that have happened to reaffirm the faith of doubting people. The most famous one occurred in the 8th Century in Italy. In the village of what is now Lanciano a priest who began to have real doubts about Jesus' real presence..

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