Eucharistic miracle “what would you do?”

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A hypothetical:
You go to receive communion as usual. After the priest places the host in your hand, you see it has become actual flesh.
Do you consume? (Private revelation from God maybe)
Do you show others? (If they don’t see it themselves, they might think you’re a nut.)
Do you have a bit of a “freak-out?”
Other?
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I personally only receive on the tongue, however if this happened to me placed on the tongue…

…I’m not sure exactly how I would respond to it…

…I would perhaps internally freak out a little, but then probably swallow?

I say this as I would be reluctant to spit out the Eucharist…

…however if I found myself in this situation in real life, I do not know.
 
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However if it was placed in my hand, which would be unusual because I do not receive in the hand, I would say that I would probably take it to the priest.
 
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I figured “show the priest” would be first. I think even a person with great faith would have “problems” with this one.
I know in church teaching the host maintains the appearance of bread, but becomes BBSD.
I have never formally received.
This was one of those things that came into my head as an interesting dilemma.
Would anyone keep quiet, and “commune?”
Dominus vobiscum
 
The proper thing would be to present to your priest so he can notify the Bishop.
 
I would also add, “freak out a little” myself. Followed by going to the priest with hand open and ask, “Uhh, Father, what do you see here?”
The followup thing is what to do after as far as cleaning your hand. “The special sink” comes to mind.
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I am prone to enjoying consolations privately, probably because of my evangelical/baptist upbringing of ‘testimonies’, telling everyone about your ‘personal time/quiet time with God’, etc. I was never comfortable participating in these humble-brag sessions and in general hate any spotlight. I also was exposed to a LOT of charismatic Christianity and much weight was placed on signs and experiences. Again, never comfortable with that and I was often told I lacked faith because of my lack of miraculous manifestations.

I receive in the hand, often from my husband (an EM), so my reaction would probably be internal shock and looking up at my husband or whoever was offering to see if he saw what I did. In your scenario, I might’ve reflexively consume as usual, not trusting my eyes. Now that you brought up this thought experiment, it would be in my head to walk over to the priest if I wasn’t receiving from him and consult with him (dearest Lord, if you ever present to me in this manner, please let me be receiving from my priest so he can immediately guide me!).

I don’t consider this a lack of faith, but I don’t think God would present to me in this manner. My faith journey has been one of the ‘still, small voice’ and a ‘voice behind me, saying to turn left or right’. I’ve often begged God for evidence of His presence and love, even just a confirmation within my heart…nothing for year after year. I finally understood God to be asking me, ‘will you believe? With no evidence, with no overwhelming feelings and experiences? Will you CHOOSE to believe?’ And that is what I have done: I choose to believe. Yes, I have doubts, and yes, I would treasure a personal revelation/Eucharistic miracle. I’m absolutely not worthy of such a miracle.
 
It would have to happen so quickly the priest would be right there, as one consumes Jesus before getting more than 2 steps away. It would make sense to alert the priest.
 
So, what happens if you see the miracle and no one, including the priest, sees it? I guess I’d imagine I was seeing incorrectly and consume the Host. What would you do? I can’t imagine the priest wouldn’t first complete Mass, right?
 
If the priest doesn’t see then I guess it’s time to just take it as a private revelation, consume Jesus and move on. You cannot walk away with Jesus in your hand, or someone will be coming after you.

I’d also like to think that if something like that happened, the Holy Spirit would give a person the grace of knowing what to do. It seems to me unlikely that Jesus would actually put a person on the spot to consume an actual chunk of flesh that only they could see.
 
I would fall upon my knees and lay prostrate in front of the Blessed Sacrament still in the palms of my hands.

However, in real life this wouldn’t happen to me because I only receive on the tongue, with my eyes closed.
 
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