I Tasted Blood During the Eucharist!

[LemonAndLime]

Because anytime you feel that you received some special ‘grace’ from the Lord in the form of a miracle or a locution, it is a good idea to speak your spiritual director. That way you have a third party involved.

Sometimes it is the mind playing tricks or worse. Sometimes it is indeed a miracle.

One needs a spiritual director.

No they don’t. I have a Priest, and that is all I need. I have no idea who a spritual director is but I’ve managed fine without one apparently.

I really think this had a physical, obvious cause. Red wine kept in a metal container is going to taste of iron, which gives blood its taste. I think that believing things which have a simple explanation are miracles is a form of scruplosity.

 

[Crusading_Canuk]

While Eucharistic Miracles do exist, it is much easier empirically to deal with those with the bread, consecrated into the Body, vs. the Blood, of which is the wine consecrated.

In response to the OP, I’m in agreement with what others said regarding the possibility the wine had a somewhat metallic taste; however you never know, and a validly consecrated host is the Body and Blood of Christ.

As for this specific quote, I feel obligated to point out that the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ is equally present under both species of the Eucharist. Flesh without blood is dead, and our God is a Living God; his Body and Blood are not separate.

 

[TrueLight]

No they don’t. I have a Priest, and that is all I need. I have no idea who a spritual director is but I’ve managed fine without one apparently.

I really think this had a physical, obvious cause. Red wine kept in a metal container is going to taste of iron, which gives blood its taste. I think that believing things which have a simple explanation are miracles is a form of scruplosity.

Scrupulosity is the word of the day on this forum.

It’s great that you do fine with a priest. You, however, are not tasting blood when you receive, so the advice is not for you.

 

[LemonAndLime]

Scrupulosity is the word of the day on this forum.

It’s great that you do fine with a priest. You, however, are not tasting blood when you receive, so the advice is not for you.

*Tasting iron.

 

[TimothyH]

This is why it is best not to speak publically about mystical experiences, personal miracles, etc.

The OP thinks he might have tasted blood and people are telling him that he has no common sense or that he needs to see a dentist. Why throw a stumbling block in front of a believer? If it is blood then PRAISE GOD! If it isn’t blood but God uses the metallic taste to increase the faith of a believer then PRAISE GOD! Praise God either way.

Things have happened to me, especially in adoration very shortly after I became a true believer in Christ, and I thought these things were normal, that they happened to everyone and I spoke about them openly for a short time. Evangelicals all said, “Praise God!” while very few Catholics did anything other than look at me like I was an idiot. I finally figured out just to keep my mouth shut.

GK Chesterton said that the fact that a tulip could rise out of the ground and bloom seemed to be one of the greatest miracles of all time, something that man never would have thought of. To me, the genesis of new life and the birth of a child is a miracle. I look at that and think that walking on water is nothing comared to that.

-Tim-

 

[NeedsMercy]

When I posted my two cents, in no way did I mean to denigrate the experience of Finn Bowen. That being said, we must adhere to the principle in “Occam’s Razor” which, simply stated, says:

“When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better."

Now, the Church follows this in its examination of miracles attributed to those proposed for canonization. Although the term “Devil’s Advocate” is no longer used, the point of the process – to see if an alternate explanation exists for a certain phenomenon – remains the same.

Finn, if you took offense to my post, which I do admit I made as mostly a joke, I am truly sorry.

:imsorry:

 

[zab]

I do believe in the approved miracles where the Host has turned into flesh so that people may believe in the true Presence of Jesus. The purpose of the miracle in these cases was not meant for consumption. It makes no sense to me for the sacramental Presence of Jesus to be turned into flesh and blood as one is consuming them. And personally, I find it gross that someone would experience tasting blood or in the case of Julia Youn in South Korea, to have the Host turn to flesh in her mouth (The Vatican has rejected these so-called miracles associated with Julia Youn). But it is not for me to determine whether one has indeed experienced the tasting of blood while consuming the Precious Blood. Any sort of extraordinary experiences should be submitted to one’s confessor/spiritual director.

 

[tafan]

Be thankful and be scared. To one whom much has been given more is expected.

Best response so far. I can’t help but being skeptical, but eucharistic miracles do happen, so I will not let the skeptic in me comment on that any farther. But if it did happen to you, there is a lot of cause for seriousness and not so much for excitement. You will find most mystics who were given private revelations were very scared, God does not give miraculous gifts easily, without something in His divine plan. And that is often a tough row to hoe for the person so called.

 

[hae]

It it possible to taste blood upon receiving the Eucharist in the bread? If it’s possible, what could it mean? Am I just losing it?

I think it happened to me earlier since I thought something along the lines of “Holy … this doesn’t taste anything like the consecrated bread like it usually does!”