The Eucharistic Miracles of the World

A link to purchase the above named book  is in The Warnings section, the last page on references .

This tremendously important book presents some of the principal Eucharistic miracles that took place throughout the ages in various countries in the world, and have been recognized by the Catholic Church.

Frankly, I don't see how anyone can read the entire 6th Chapter of John in the Gospels and this book, and then not run to become a Catholic. Elsewhere in this section on Food For Thought is an article  by the author on Eucharistic Miracles he personally saw and paid homage to in Portugal (Santarem), Italy (Lanciano) and Austria (Seefeld). All three are just some of the supernatural miracles from God in these countries as well as the following countries described in this book: Belgium, Columbia, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Island of La Reunion, Martinique, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Spain and Switzerland.

These narratives of Church-approved Eucharistic miracles bring a greater understanding and appreciation of what the unbloody Sacrifice of the Mass gives us: the Real Presence of Jesus Christ, His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, in the Most Holy Eucharist. To contemplate Christ involves being able to recognize Him wherever He manifests Himself, in His many forms of presence, but above all in the living sacrament of His Body and His Blood. The Church draws her life, said Pope John Paul II, from Christ in the Eucharist; by Him she is fed and by Him she is enlightened.

This book describes the story of 126 miracles associated with faith in and worship of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Each of the miracles is venerated at a shrine, all of which have been approved by the Diocesan Bishop and some of which have the approval of the Holy See.

The book The Eucharistic Miracles of the World  provides a wonderful service to the work of the New Evangelization.

Near the end of the book is a special section entitled "Saints, Mystics and the Eucharist."

Bl. Alexandrina Maria da Costa

From 1942, at the age of 38, until her death, Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa was nourished by the Eucharist alone, and during a period of observation at Foce del Douro Hospital near Oporto, Portugal, for forty days and nights she was under supervision by several doctors in her absolute fast and her condition of anuria (absence of urine). Jesus had appeared to her, saying, "I have put you in the world so that you may draw life only from Me, to bear witness to the world how precious the Eucharist is... The strongest chain that keeps souls in bondage to satan is the flesh and sins of impurity. Never has there been such a spread of vice, wickedness and crime as there is today!" Alexandrina relived the sufferings of the Passion of Christ 182 times. She died in the state of holiness on October 13, 1955, the anniversary of the last famous apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal.

Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, while praying, was visited by Jesus from Heaven, offering her a crown of roses or a crown of thorns. She chose the crown of thorns. Immediately, the first stigmata appeared on her forehead. Later on, after another apparition of Jesus, wounds also appeared in her hands, feet and side - and remained there. She had practically stopped eating. A little water and the daily consecrated Host was enough to keep her alive for years. Blessed Anne always united her sufferings with those of Jesus and offered them for the redemption of mankind.

 

Saint Don Bosco

In 1848, Saint Don Bosco realized at Mass that the ciborium in the tabernacle contained only 8 Hosts. Yet about 360 young people wanted to receive Holy Communion. Don Bosco prayed fervently, and altar server Joseph Buzzetti was overcome with emotion as he saw Don Bosco multiply the Hosts and give Communion to each of the 360 boys. Don Bosco is also famous for what he related about two tall pillars in the sea. The first held up a huge Host with the inscription "Salvation of the Faithful" and the other pillar, which was lower, supported a statue of Mary Immaculate with the inscription, "Help of Christians".

St. Catherine of Sienna

St. Catherine of Siena was told by Jesus Christ, regarding the Eucharist: "You receive the whole divine essence in that sweetest Sacrament under the whiteness of the bread. Just as the sun cannot be divided, so the God - Man cannot be divided in the whiteness of the Host. Let us suppose the Host is broken, even if it were possible to break It into thousands of tiny Particles. Christ, fully God and fully Man, is in every one of them... If you had just one candle and everyone in the world came to light his candle from that single candle, the flame would not diminish, and each one would have an entire flame."

During an enemy attack against Assisi, Italy, the fierce Saracens invaded the confines of the monastery and even the very cloister of the nuns. Saint Clare turned to the Lord for protection for her nuns. The Lord Jesus told her out loud He will always protect her. She told the nuns, "I assure you, daughters, that you will suffer no harm. Only have faith in Christ." There was no delay. The fierce Saracens, seeing Saint Clare holding the monstrance with the consecrated Host, were immediately filled with fear and fled back over the walls they had just scaled.

The Divine Mercy

St. Faustina Kowalska's visions of the Divine Mercy are told in detail regarding the Lord's soon return in the extensive article on Divine Mercy in The Warnings section in this website. In addition, the Lord showed hell to St. Faustina. She saw seven tortures detailed in the book, and she wrote, "Let the sinner know that he will be tortured throughout all eternity... I am writing this at the command of God, so that no soul may find an excuse by saying there is no hell, or that nobody has ever been there, and so no one can say what it is like... What I have written is but a pale shadow of the things I saw." (Divine Mercy in My Soul #741)

With the Eucharist, Jesus Christ is actually present with us in His own substance. As the risen Christ said prior to His Ascension to Heaven, "And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age." (Matthew 28:20) ...He would remain and be with them even by His Bodily Presence, stated Pope Urban IV. He extended the feast of the Body of Christ to the universal Church in the 13th century.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in France received many mystical gifts and revelations from Jesus. We list here the famous "Twelve Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus" as revealed by the Lord to Saint Margaret Mary for devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I will give them all the graces necessary for their state of life. I will give peace in their families. I will console them in all their afflictions. They shall find in My Heart a secure refuge during life and especially at the hour of death. I will pour abundant blessings on all their undertakings. Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy. Tepid souls will become fervent. Fervent souls shall speedily rise to great perfection. I will bless the homes in which the image of My Sacred Heart will be displayed and venerated. I will give to priests the power to touch the most hardened hearts. Those who propagate this devotion shall have their names written in My Heart, never to be blotted out. The all-powerful love of My Heart will grant to all those who shall receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays of nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die under My displeasure, nor without receiving the Sacraments; My Heart shall be their assured refuge at the last hour.

At the end of the book, parishes are invited to exhibit the Church-approved photographic Vatican International Exhibition by going to www.therealpresence.org.

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