Future Potential Saints of the Millennial Generation and the Latest Church Approved Eucharistic Miracle in India

Let's explore the lives of future potential saints of the millennial generation who show us that life in the Holy Spirit is possible through the power of Christ even in the modern age.

Let's learn about the church's insistence on the process of Servant of God to Canonization in the wake of lifetime investigation and martyrdom. From Pierangelo Capuzzimati's steady trust in God to Akash Bashir's dramatic heroism; exceptional Christian lives fully confident in God's grace are still being formed today.

Finally, we turn to Kerala, India, where a Eucharistic Host bearing a clear human face passed through rigorous scientific investigation. It was judged worthy of belief by the church as a Eucharistic miracle after theological review this year. 

Pierangelo Capuzzimati - Pierangelo Capuzzimati soon to be blessed for young people?

Pierangelo Capuzzimati, who died of leukemia at the age of 17: the cause of canonization continues

Uscire dalla nevrosi ecclesiogena: raccontiamo la Chiesa com'è

Matteo Farina - Biographical Profile - Matteo Farina

Akash Bashir - First Pakistani candidate for sainthood remains little known despite heroic sacrifice - CatholicVote org

Akash Bashir: Asia’s Millennial Servant of God and Martyr - Indian Catholic Matters

Kendrick Castillo - Teen who died stopping school shooter may become saint, church says | Fox News

Sr. Claire Crockett - 7 things to know about Sister Clare Crockett  | Catholic News Agency

Bl. Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi - Beatified Congolese martyr highlights ‘precious witness of laity, youth’ Pope Leo says – EWTN Great Britain

Joe Reali - A Warrior for Christ

The Latest Approved Eucharistic Miracle by the Church: 

Eucharistic miracle in an Indian village invites us to see others as Christ sees them | Kerala catholic online

Vatican recognizes Eucharistic miracle in Vilakkannur | RVA

Face of Jesus in the Host: Vatican recognizes Eucharistic miracle in India - ZENIT - English

India’s First Eucharistic Miracle Confirmed by Vatican The Face of Christ in Vilakkannur | #tfrcctv

Transcript

Welcome, Prayer, And Framing

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Good evening, and welcome to Tradismatic, a podcast on the revival of Christian culture. I'm your host, you can call me Max. On my first episode, I looked at the website and life of Saint Carlo Acutis, a internet webpage designer who was declared last month the first canonized millennial saint. And in tonight's episode, I'm going to look at other candidates for canonization who are of the millennial generation. Likewise, in the spirit of Saint Carlo's virtual museum of Eucharistic miracles, I will look at the latest approved Eucharistic miracle whose declaration of worthiness of belief was declared this year. Before I begin, let's say a prayer to the Holy Spirit together. Join me in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your spirit, and they shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth. O God who have taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant that in the same spirit we may be truly wise and have rejoiced in his consolation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. All right.

What Canonization Really Means

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So, just as an intro, when it comes to the canonization of saints, the church recognizes that there are particular individuals whose lives have been deeply reviewed and investigated by the church who declare exemplary holiness and heroic faith, and that these individuals, after a review of their life by both the diocese and the church itself, that there have been verified reports of miracles attributed to their intercession, or they become beatified by giving their life for Jesus Christ in martyrdom. As specified in the first episode, these aren't demigods in the Catholic Church. We do not worship saints. According to the epistle to the Hebrews, there is a great cloud of witnesses in heaven. And that particular verse is alluding to the veneration of saints, which was always practiced throughout church history. Likewise in the book of Revelation, it notes that the saints are before the altar of God and their prayers go up like incense before him. If I as a Christian can ask other people in the pews for their prayers, the intercession of the saints who are more alive than I am in heaven can be particularly efficacious. I am not trying to divinize them or practice any sort of ritual to raise them from the dead, but if they are more alive in Christ than I am, I can trust that their prayers are particularly efficacious to be requested as they are in the presence of God Himself. So, who is the first potential canonization that I'm going to look at in today's episode?

Pierangelo Capuzzimati’s Hope In Suffering

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Well, it will be Pier Angelo Capuzamati. That is one richly Italian name. And in this case, this was a holy adolescent or holy youth, just like St. Carlo Acutis was. Note that all the millennials who are potentially going to become saints or will become venerable or beatified, all died young. The millennial generation is just one step below Gen Z. So these individuals not only had to pass, but their lives needed to be significantly investigated in order for their case for sainthood and the honor of canonization to proceed further in the life of the church. Pier Angelo, he was born in the Italian state of Toronto in 1990. And throughout all my research, it is consistent that he had tremendous faith and trust in God and had a kind of supernatural tranquility and serenity in relationship to severe suffering that had occurred in his life. Pierangelo was also a light to his own family. In all the research I've done of him, he bought his parents into a deeper relationship with their Christian Catholic faith. A lover of nature, a lover of hagiography and the life of the saints, a man of deep prayer and numerous life-giving friendships. He unfortunately in 2004 was diagnosed with leukemia. And by summer 2005, he had undergone and endured his first bone marrow transplant. Through all of this, Pier Angelo remarked that Jesus was using this suffering as a way to get closer to him. So instead of moping or self-pity or despondency or severe depression and sorrow over this painful diagnosis, this young man carried his cross with tremendous grace, remarking that it was a way for him to deepen his friendship with Jesus Christ. Throughout his first bone marrow transplant, he remained consistent in not only prayer and studies, he had a very active mind and was always seeking to learn more about the world around him, but he continued to participate in school to the best of his abilities. It is remarked that as he went through these bone marrow relation transplants, he continued to go through his exams to proceed in grade level, despite the fact that he had leukemia. He did not allow the diagnosis to stunt his life. I found this quote from his mother that said he catapulted himself into social life at parties with friends, at school, on trips. So despite the fact that he was in tremendous pain, he kept engaged in his youth and consistently proclaimed the love of God to all those around him, both family and friends. In 2007, he had a second bone marrow transplant. So these are very painful procedures, but it is reported that he continued to have tremendous faith in God and deepened his prayer life through the suffering. Father Cottaccio, the priest of his home parish in Italy, had this to say concerning Pierangelo's experience of these two bone marrow transplants. Quote, The more he deepened his knowledge, the more he discovered the greatness of the world within and around us, inebriating himself with the beauty that surrounds us. He marveled at works of art. He studied their authors. At first he was unconsciously happy to be part of the mystery of life, then more and more aware and sure of it. Pierangelo loved life. Unfortunately, Pierangelo would succumb to leukaemia at the age of seventeen. But the church and the diocese of Toronto has recognized him as a servant of God when looking at his life. Archbishop Filippo Santoro had this to say concerning Pierangelo. Quote, Pierangelo's story, explains the diocese, would have been a dramatic story like many others if the protagonist had not been a boy animated by an immense faith. Although he grew up in a family environment rather indifferent to religious themes. In this story, illness and suffering can constitute the humus within which the breath of the Spirit gives birth to and develops a faith that leads a child to become the father of his parents. End quote. So that's a powerful declaration that Pierangelo's holiness was tangible not only to his friends and his fellow students in his witness of Christ, but that he became a spiritual father for his own family, teaching and evangelizing the faith through them, by clinging to Jesus as his true friend, using his battle with leukaemia as a form of sanctification. And this is from the life of a man who lived to be 17. I do believe that as his case transfers from the diocese to Rome to be studied for venerable status, that we will see and discover more remarkable things about

Matteo Farina’s Joyful Mission

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this incredible young man. Now, the next individual I'd like to discuss is also from Italy, and he lived between September 1990 to April of 2009, and his name was Matteo Farina. Matteo Farina is known for being, well, it sounds to me from some of the research that he was a kind of polymath. He liked science and chemistry, but he also really liked music, theology, hagiography, the saints. Whenever I've Googled a picture of him, he's always playing instruments. And you could tell that he had a sense of humor in the name he gave his band. He formed a band, and the name of that band was No Name. It's almost a who's on first situation. So, kind of tongue-in-cheek, he was part of the no name band and regularly participated in the life of his parish and uh weekly confession. He also had a chaste dating relationship with a girl named Serena. I believe had he survived his brain cancer diagnosis, he would have married her. Again, like Pier Angelo, Matteo Farina continued to strive for a full life despite the limitations of his illness. In January of 2005, after receiving a diagnosis, he had a craniotomy. And this is after a life, a young life of tremendous, tremendous headaches. And it was through the process of trying to deduce where these headaches came from that it was discovered that he had brain cancer. He also went through a whole month of chemotherapy in Milan around April of 2005. By 2009, it is reported that he had an arm and leg paralyzed and that he was utilizing a wheelchair. But Padre Pio was a saint that Matteo had particular devotion to. And I think he found a lot of his encouragement through a reported dream he had of Padre Pio when he was nine. Now, these are the words of Matteo himself on the dream he had. He says that Padre Pio said, quote, You must understand that who is without sin is happy. Then you have to teach it to the others so that we can go altogether happily in the heavenly paradise. So Matteo found within this dream a template for his life's purpose, which was to proclaim the gospel of God. He had a tremendous devotion to daily rosary. He had supposedly read the Gospel of Matthew by around the age nine and used that as a long-term Lenten practice. And he was heavily devoted to the saints, Saint Teresa of Lesou also being someone who Matteo really looked up to. During Christmas, one year, he asked his family to not give presents and instead donate money to foreign missions in Mozambique in Africa for the proclamation of the gospel there. And in each and every opportunity, Matteo continued to go forward without self-pity, without sorrow over his disabling condition, to continually, as stated, participate in the life of his church and in evangelizing Jesus to his friends and family. He is quoted as to have said, It is useless to despond. We have to be happy and transmit happiness. The more happiness we give people, the more people are happy. The more they are happy, the more we are happy. End quote. So this demonstrates a mature understanding of the gospel and that Mateo saw fulfillment in life not amidst all the other various pleasures that youth are chasing, but that he found fulfillment in Jesus. Towards the end of his sickness, he also made another profound statement. He said, Quote, My God, I have two hands, let one of them be always clasped to you in order to hold you closer in every trial, and let the other hands fall throughout the world, if this is your will. As I know you by others, so let others know you through me. I want to be a mirror, the clearest possible, and if this is your will, I want to reflect your light in the heart of every man. Thanks for life, thanks for faith, thanks for love. I'm yours. So in all of these statements by Matteo, he's recognizing that he's only truly at his most fulfilled in his Christian life when he's donating himself completely to others. Now, this man was a layman, right, who uses suffering to get close to Christ, and who saw the proclamation of the gospel and giving to others as a way of finding happiness in his own life. He found himself by doing what St. Pope John Paul II told us to do, by giving himself away to his sincere gift of self, to those friends and family who loved him through the course of this debilitating illness. His family actually has a website, Matteofarina.com, which talks about some of the aspects of his life and legacy that are very important. He is reported to have said that he wanted to infiltrate people's lives and give them the incurable disease of love. So he had a joyful sense of humor about his life and his purpose in giving the joy of the gospel and the light of Christ to those around him. And it was such an exceptional witness that now he is being considered for sainthood. And of course, his embrace of suffering is to me the hallmark of his life.

Akash Bashir’s Martyrdom In Pakistan

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The next individual is Akash Bashir, who I believe so far is the greatest martyr of our brief century so far. Akash Bashir, if he becomes a canonized saint, will be the first canonized saint from Pakistan. And he was born in 1994 in Rizalpur, Pakistan. But due to a lot of the ongoing persecution, his family moved to Lahore, which is also in Pakistan. But there's less, at that time, there was less persecution of Christians. It is reported that he was remarkably weak when he was growing up physically, but as he got older, he found tremendous strength. And that strength would ultimately earn him martyrdom towards the end of his life. He was a Salesian and took with him the spirit of Don Bosco in the ways he approached his work with young people. In 2015, a Taliban affiliated suicide bomber had strapped explosives to his body. And Akash, as the security guard of his Catholic parish, saw the man coming in. And he tackled the man. And it is reported that he had some remarkable final words. I want to get the actual quote here. I prefer to die than let evil in. That's what's attributed to him in this final act. He accosted this suicide bomber. And it is believed that because he did so, he prevented the ban, the terrorist, from going into the church and killing other lives. So the bomb went off and it took him and the bomber out, but the lives of the congregants were spared by his heroic act of sacrifice. Father Nobul Lal, who was affiliated with Akash Bashir, notes that this final act of shedding his blood to protect other Christians demonstrates strong faith, obedience and humility, charity and service, courage, selflessness, and love for God and neighbor, which are all fruits of the Holy Spirit that was in Akash's life. Akash was also noted for having tremendous devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Rosary. Father Emmanuel Asi, who is the founder director of a lay forum for Christians in that part of the world, had this to say about the legacy of Akash. Quote, there should have been nationwide prayers, seminars, festivals, portraits, articles, a people-led movement and parishes, an altar boys' initiative in his name, or an institution dedicated to his memory. His martyrdom should be widely recognized, end quote. So there is some concern that this man's devotion towards God and his people that resulted in this tremendous martyrdom is not given enough recognition in the life of the church. But I believe, as his case continues to proceed, that his martyrdom will be recognized and that he will be the first saint of Pakistan. Interestingly enough, there is a young man from the United States who has a similar

Kendrick Castillo’s Heroic Witness

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witness to Akash, and he was an 18-year-old who jumped the school shooter of the STEM High School shooting in May 7, 2019. So it is reported that Kendrick Castillo, along with two others, accosted the school shooter who went on a rampage at STEM School Highlands Ranch, a charter school in Douglas County, Colorado. Upon further investigation into Kendrick's life, it was discovered that he had a tremendous relationship to his home parish and that he was a squat squire in the Knights of Columbus, and he had a deep relationship to Jesus Christ. So the fact is that Kendrick Castillo gave himself as a martyr for his friends. And it was this act of tackling this gunman that saved lives. There are testimonies of students who survived this school shooting directly because of Kendrick Castillo's act of heroism. And the diocese, upon recognizing that Kendrick Castillo also had profound Catholic faith, is fertile ground for the possible cause of servant of God being investigated in his diocese. It has not been declared yet that he is a servant of God, but his parish certainly is trying to build a case. So I will keep an eye on that, and I think all Catholics should as well. But his martyrdom is similar to Akash. He accosted someone who was trying to do a terrorist-style act. And because of his heroic shedding of his own life, he laid down his life for his friends. The next saint is a woman who, born in 1982, passed in 2016 in Ecuador. And her name was Claire Crockett, and she was from Ireland. And her story is quite remarkable as well. She was a woman of tremendous service who eventually became a nun. I have a chronology of her life through the Catholic News Agency. And Sister Claire began her life aspiring to become an actress. She actually has an IMDB profile. Imagine having a canonized saint who has an IMDB profile that cites her in a small role in a movie which was about the troubles in Ireland. And it's also reported that she voiced a kid's character in a children's series. And she was also

Sister Clare Crockett’s Vocation And Service

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hired to host a show on a British network. She had even, it says right here, caught the attention of Nickelodeon. However, at a Good Friday service in the year 2000, she went up to venerate the Good Friday Cross, and this experience transformed her into a life of someone who was pursuing the world to what would ultimately be a vocation to the sisterhood. All right. So Claire Crockett gave a remarkable testimony at World Youth Day in 2011, where she describes her transformation from a woman trying to become an actress to a consecrated nun. Now, in her work in Ecuador, because she ended up becoming a nun, going to Ecuador, and in April 16th, 2016, a 7.8 earthquake had struck the area in which she was spreading the gospel, and she she perished doing that work. It is reported that she demonstrated remarkable holiness from the witness reports of her life. And she's known for music, for helping the poor, for education, and living a life of charismatic service to Jesus and his church as a young nun. And what's remarkable is while she started her life interested in television and movies, she ended her life in full-fledged service to the gospel due to a transformative experience on Good Friday. And she never lost her charismatic personality. She was able to use that in the work of evangelization that she was involved with when the earthquake occurred. So Sister Claire has been declared a servant of God by her diocese, but there are rhetorical reports within Ecuador that people have already been claiming the fruits of a miraculous intercession on report of her prayers. But this all has to be examined carefully by the church as her case appears to be moving forward. I'm going to look at the life of blessed Floribert Buwana. He was a Congolese civil servant and he was born in 1981 but died in 2007. So he would be an elder millennial, 1981, and he worked for the Congolese control office. And he never took bribes and ensured

Blessed Floribert Bwana And Integrity

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that the services he gave that concerned the approval and entry of food in and out of his country was just. He refused to accept corruption. And his insistence on doing things the right and noble way, in accordance with his faith in Christ, eventually got him killed by bad actors. So, again, an incredible life. And I consider this man to be a martyr, and he is currently at the level of beatified. So this man is blessed by the church. Powerful Catholic man who stood up to corruption without compromise to the point of his own martyrdom. I'd also like to shed some light on a man who passed, who lived in Woodbury, New York. His name was Joe Rialli. And he lived a life very similar to that of Pier Giorgio Frasati, who was canonized last month. Pierre Frasati was a generous, devoted layperson who

Joe Reali’s Quiet Lay Holiness

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was a friend to the poor, a friend to the sick, who was devoted to the Eucharist and evangelization. And at Piers' funeral, so many people came in that his family was shocked to see the level of commitment and the level of influence, positive influence Piers had in so many people's lives in bringing them closer to Jesus Christ. And Joe Rialli, who in his short period of life brought people to church, he participated in the Knights of Columbus, he touched so many lives that his funeral was packed. There is even a testimony of a boy he came across in Florida who he was able to mentor. This boy was a runaway, and he was able to convince to return to his family. He was constantly inviting his friends to go to church with him and was concerned about his vocation. But his simple life of prayer, devotion to the saints, devotion to his family, devotion to the poor and sick, and his participation in the life of the Knights of Columbus demonstrated not just a simple philanthropy, but a deeply seated love for Christ and his Eucharist operating through faith in the sacraments of the church. And his own family reports that Joe Rialli's devotion to the Eucharist encouraged them to actually deepen their own faith in Jesus Christ. It is also noted that Joe Rialli always had a suspicion that his life was going to be short. There was no evidence of this for a long time, but he just felt it in his soul, and he felt the compulsion within his spirit to serve and spread the gospel to as many as he could. And his funeral showed the legacy he left. It is attributed to him that he said, quote, I have no doubt in my mind that God and Jesus Christ do exist and are really present in the Mass. End quote. You can find all types of videos about Joe Rialli online, but again, it was his devotion to holy communion and the way he used his Eucharisty adoration to push himself into service of others that was so profound that some are trying to make the case that he could be a future beatification or canonization. Very similar to the life of Piers Frasati. And again, Joe was an American, but it was that same self-sacrificial love that got Piers canonized that seems to be demonstrated in his life as well. All right, so those are some of the potential canonizations that we may see in our soon lifetime. But

India’s Approved Eucharistic Miracle

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while all those individuals are either servant of God or venerable, except for Kendrick and Joe Rialli, we will see what the Holy Spirit does in concern of the further investigation of their lives on behalf of the church. Okay. So in the first episode of my podcast, I talked about St. Carlo Acutis and his online museum of Eucharistic miracles. And this year, 2025, May 31st of this year specifically, a Eucharistic miracle was approved as having character worthy of belief that God had demonstrated a miracle in a Eucharistic host in a small village in India. And it has become India's first approved Eucharistic miracle as worthy of belief, validated by the Vatican. Before I tell you more about the story, I'm going to quote Archbishop Pomplani of the Diocese of Thalassari in India, who said this concerning the event. So I just want to preface this whole story by saying nobody is being demanded to believe that this Eucharistic miracle is an absolute truth. The church is saying it's worthy of belief. If you believe that God performs a miracle in this instance, the church allows you to have that view. When I study the facts of this case, I consider them quite remarkable. So on November 15th, 2013, at a morning mass in Villa Kanor Parish in the state of Kerala in India, Father Thomas Pathical of the Ciro Malabar Rite was raising the host for holy epiclesis at liturgy that morning. He reports that a stain appeared on the host that became larger and brighter as he proceeded in the liturgy. Now, if you look at this host, in the Siro Malabar rite, usually when the host is raised, it's a large host. And this is where the face showed up. But Father Pathical, after noticing all this, placed the host to the side to save it and use a smaller host for the public fractioning. Again, he saw this stain become larger and brighter on that host as he proceeded at the morning liturgy and placed it in a monstrance. And if I look at this picture online, it does not seem to be an issue of a Rorschach test or periodolia. There is clear hair, there are clear eyes, facial features, and shading. It looks like a direct portraiture of the face of Jesus Christ that you would see in any holy card of devotion to the face of Jesus, which is a which is a sacred devotion in the life of the church. So it's a very clear picture of the face of Christ right on the host. If you want to look it up, Eucharistic Miracle in India, you can see it. It's, in my estimation, in my view, clear as crystal that it is a portrait figure. He places this Eucharistic host in a monstrance. And the sacristan supposedly said, quote, it was the face of Jesus, end quote. Immediately, news of this spread. And I'm going to quote Xenit.com that talks about what happened in the immediate aftermath of this event. So Zenith quotes, that face, identified by witnesses as the face of Christ, has drawn thousands over the years. In the days following the 2013 mass, the tiny village was overwhelmed by pilgrims. Roads were jammed with vehicles, and police were called in to manage the crowds. The phenomenon ignited fervent devotion while church authorities quietly took custody of the host and launched a rigorous investigation, both theological and scientific, in line with the Vatican's protocols for discernment of spiritual claims. If I look at my notes here, this host had a history. TFRCC TV, which is a channel for Indian Catholics on YouTube, had a brief quip from a statement by Father George Karatu in the level of investigation that went into this phenomenon. He claimed first that there was a team sent to examine it that was sent by the diocese of three people. And these three diocesan officials came to the conclusion that there were no chemical or human interventions in the host at all. It appeared that the face had imprinted itself organically from the communion itself. So there's no evidence in their observation that any tampering went on or that it was a stain or paint or bacteria or mold. It's organic to the host according to this first examination by these three. But it was taken and transferred to the archdiocese that scrutinized it further and came to the exact same conclusion. The dicastery for this Eucharistic miracle case wanted it eventually to be sent to Rome. And this desire was made clear by the dicastery in 2018. Between 2018 and 2020, the host had been transferred from the Archdiocese of Thalasserie and given back to Christ the King parish in that Indian village. And between 2018 and 2020, it was regarded as a quote, relic of divinity and placed in a psi chapel. Due to the fact it had not been examined by the Vatican yet, it wasn't allowed for adoration, but kind of worship in a side chapel. Anecdotal reports of miraculous blessings had purportedly happened as a result of prayers in front of the monstrance there. Then in January of 2020, Rome looked at the Eucharist. So we are at another investigation here, and they also found that there were no human interventions, molds, toxins, paints in the Eucharist. So this led to a final serious laboratory investigation that happened at, let's see, Christ University in Bangalore. Now I'm going to bring up some of my evidence here of how deep this investigation went. So it was given, according to Radio Veritas Asia, three different forms of laboratory introspection. The first is called Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. And this is a technique that detects for substances using infrared lighting. The second was a high performance liquid chromatography. This is a technique, according to AI, that separates, identifies in quantities the components of a liquid mixture. And it seems to do this on a very microscopic level. So this test would determine if there were other liquids within this miraculous host. And then finally, there's mass spectrometry, which I had some trouble understanding, but in layman's terms, it looked at the host on a molecular level to determine if there are other interventions or signs of any sort of entanglement with a foreign substance with what had appeared on the host. And it passed that the face that appeared on the Eucharist was organic to the communion itself. Father George also specified that the preservation of this Eucharistic host was an act of divine intervention and how it has maintained its quality and duration through over 11 years of multiple studies, those by the diocese, those by Rome, and those by those intense laboratory procedures. On May 31st of this year, it was announced at Christ the King Parish that the Eucharistic miracle had been approved as worthy of belief by the church, and 10,000 attendants showed up, and it has turned that parish into a pilgrimage center in the area. Not only that, despite the scientific claims that have occurred around this Eucharist, there have been numerous theological commissions attributed to it that studied whether or not this miracle would be licit from a doctrinal point of view, if this would be something that God would do essentially, and it passed all theological introspection. There is a beautiful article. Now, this is more of an opinion piece than anything else, that tries to look into what is God communicating to us by showing the face of Jesus Christ on this Eucharistic host. And what does this mean? What is God communicating? The Global Sisters Report, it's an article by, let me just see, I want to make sure I get her name correctly. Tessie Jacob.

Scientific And Theological Review

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I'm gonna quote her article. But a deeper question remains. Do I see the face of Christ in the bread I receive? Do I truly experience the real presence of Jesus in every Eucharist I attend? Apart from epistemological and theological arguments, the Eucharistic miracle at Vilconor serves as more than a moment of wonder. It is a profound invitation. It calls each of us to recognize the face of Jesus not only on the altar, but also in the people around us. Just as we gaze with reverence upon his face in the Eucharist, we are invited to look at others with the same eyes, eyes of love, mercy, and compassion. The miraculous image of Jesus on the host and Dilakonor seems to whisper a gentle message to all the faithful. See me in your brothers and sisters, treat them as you would treat me. Tessie Jacobs has a remarkable statement here that not only do we carry the Eucharist in our heart, but Jesus appearing as the human face on the sacrament itself impels us to greater devotion to service to God and our neighbor out of love for the sacraments of the church. And oftentimes our neighbor is the most lowly amongst us. So that concludes tonight's episode. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope to be on again later this week to go over some news headlines with you. But for now, I will conclude with a glory be. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and never shall be. World without end. Amen. Good evening, and God bless you.