Eucharistic Miracle?

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The news media covered a story about an alleged Eucharistic Miracle in Dallas. A young boy received Communion and spit out the host in the bathroom. The pastor placed the host in water (to dissolve it) and a month later it appeared as though the host became a fleshy blood clot.

As it turns out there was nothing supernatural about the “Bleeding Host” – only ordinary fungus.

Do you suppose today’s technology would rule out similar, much older, “Eucharistic Miracles”?
 
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MaryAgnes:
The news media covered a story about an alleged Eucharistic Miracle in Dallas. A young boy received Communion and spit out the host in the bathroom. The pastor placed the host in water (to dissolve it) and a month later it appeared as though the host became a fleshy blood clot.

As it turns out there was nothing supernatural about the “Bleeding Host” – only ordinary fungus.

Do you suppose today’s technology would rule out similar, much older, “Eucharistic Miracles”?
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I’m in Arlington, TX. We discussed this event Thurday night. It was suggested that when a biological examination was performed and blood was found to be present, the blood type would have to be AB and that the child’s blood type is different.

(Excuse me while I chuckle about ordinary fungus.)
 
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MaryAgnes:
Do you suppose today’s technology would rule out similar, much older, “Eucharistic Miracles”?
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Probably not, especially in those cases where the miracles were of a much more dramatic nature. In Joan Carroll Cruz’s book, Eucharistic Miracles, she writes of incidences when heretics would stab consecrated Hosts with knives and the Hosts would bleed profusely (as in, actually spurting blood). These episodes are much more dramatic and convincing in appearance than the recent incident.

Lanciano is probably the best example, though. In 700 AD, a priest, by all accounts a good priest, but having doubts about the actual transformation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, said the words of Consecration during Mass, and the bread turned into an actual piece of bleeding flesh. That flesh has been on display in the church in Lanciano for over 1300 years–and has shown no signs of decay.

Scientific studies performed in 1970 showed the flesh to be human heart tissue, with blood type AB (which, incidentally, is the same blood type on the Shroud).

So, there’s a great case of science actually providing evidence for a Eucharistic Miracle.
 
Could someone please past the correct link. THe link posted is a story about a lutheran pastor becoming arlingtons first married priest.
 
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