Eucharistic Miracle in Poland [W:26]

[Gathomas88]

Catholic Herald - Bleeding Host in Poland Has Hallmarks of a Eucharistic Miracle

The announcement was made by Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski of Legnica on Sunday

A bleeding Host in Poland that “has the hallmarks of a Eucharistic miracle” has been approved for veneration.

The announcement was made by Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski of Legnica on Sunday, according to reports.

On Christmas Day in 2013, a consecrated Host fell to the floor, the bishop said in a statement. It was put in a container of water and red stains subsequently appeared on the Host.

After the discovery, the former Bishop of Legnica set up a commission to observe the phenomenon, the statement said.

“In February 2014, a tiny red fragment of the Host was seperated and put on a corporal. The Commission ordered to take samples in order to conduct the thorough tests by the relevant research institutes,” the statement added.

Tests were performed at the Department of Forensic Medicine in Wroclaw at the beginning of 2014. Another study was subsequently performed by the Department of Forensic Medicine of the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, which concluded that “in the histopathological image, the fragments (of the Host) were found containing the fragmented parts of the cross striated muscle. It is most similar to the heart muscle. Tests also determined the tissue to be of human origin, and found that it bore signs of distress.”

Bishop Kiernikowski said the Host bore signs of “a Eucharistic miracle” and explained that in January of this year he took the matter to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

In April, according to a recommendation made by the Holy See, he asked parish priest Andrzej Ziombrze “to prepare a suitable place” for the Host so that the faithful could venerate it.

“I hope that this will serve to deepen the cult of the Eucharist and will have deep impact on the lives of people facing the Host,” the bishop added.

Long story short, a Consecrated Eucharist (Communion Wafer) fell on the floor Christmas day, and subsequently began to bleed (I'm not sure if it was dropped, and then began to bleed, or was dropped because it was bleeding). A piece of the wafer was excised, and sent to a couple of medical universities for study, who claim to have found muscle tissue in the bread, from a human heart. That heart tissue shows signs of distress.

This is, of course, of extreme relevance to Roman Catholics, as we hold the Eucharist to literally be the "body and blood of Christ," in spiritual form.

I'm sure this won't convince any skeptics out there (and I'm not sure if the Vatican has weighed in yet), but it is an interesting case nonetheless. "Miracles" are regarded as being a thing of the past by most people, not something contemporary.

What'd be really cool is if they could DNA test the fragment, and find that the tissue came from a Jewish man of Middle Eastern descent. lol

 

[David_N]

I've heard of similar instances, the problem is, they never seem to be able to get any DNA.

 

[iguanaman]

Catholic Herald - Bleeding Host in Poland Has Hallmarks of a Eucharistic Miracle



Long story short, a Consecrated Eucharist (Communion Wafer) fell on the floor Christmas day, and subsequently began to bleed (I'm not sure if it was dropped, and then began to bleed, or was dropped because it was bleeding). A piece of the wafer was excised, and sent to a couple of medical universities for study, who claim to have found muscle tissue in the bread, from a human heart. That heart tissue shows signs of distress.

This is, of course, of extreme relevance to Roman Catholics, as we hold the Eucharist to literally be the "body and blood of Christ," in spiritual form.

I'm sure this won't convince any skeptics out there (and I'm not sure if the Vatican has weighed in yet), but it is an interesting case nonetheless. "Miracles" are regarded as being a thing of the past by most people, not something contemporary.

What'd be really cool is if they could DNA test the fragment, and find that the tissue came from a Jewish man of Middle Eastern descent. lol

Let me get this straight. With all the horrors in this world, God chooses to show himself in a cracker in Poland. Maybe he is really one of the Keebler elves.:lol:

 

[Gathomas88]

Let me get this straight. With all the horrors in this world, God chooses to show himself in a cracker in Poland. Maybe he is really one of the Keebler elves.:lol:

A) Most of those "horrors" are pretty soundly of our own making.

B) Even horrors serve their purpose in God's plan.

If legitimate, I'd look at events like those in the OP as being a somewhat more subtle indication to the faithful that, "Yes, God is still here."

 

[iguanaman]

A) Most of those "horrors" are pretty soundly of our own making.

B) Even horrors serve their purpose in God's plan.

If legitimate, I'd look at events like those in the OP as being a somewhat more subtle indication to the faithful that, "Yes, God is still here."

Subtle is an understatement and a far cry from the burning bush. He must be losing his touch.
I thought God made man? Now you say he makes the horrors too and it is part of his "plan"? Perhaps we should re-evaluate God's intentions then.

 

[Gathomas88]

Subtle is an understatement and a far cry from the burning bush. He must be losing his touch.
I thought God made man? Now you say he makes the horrors too and it is part of his "plan"? Perhaps we should re-evaluate God's intentions then.

This life is a test. Like all tests, you are allowed to fail.

 

[countryboy]

Subtle is an understatement and a far cry from the burning bush. He must be losing his touch.
I thought God made man? Now you say he makes the horrors too and it is part of his "plan"? Perhaps we should re-evaluate God's intentions then.

What do you mean "we"? You're not even a believer, are you?

 

[americanwoman]

This sounds like a job for Maury!

 

[iguanaman]

What do you mean "we"? You're not even a believer, are you?

Do I believe that God choose to show himself in a pagan inspired ritual? You must be kidding.

The Dionysus Connection
Ritual ingestion of wine was already common and sacred at least 500 years before the birth of Jesus. Known as Bacchus in Rome, Dionysus was the Greek god of fertility and ecstasy. He was celebrated through ritual wine drinking and yearly festivals that also included dancing and intoxication. In the "Bacchae," by Greek playwright Euripides, written in the 5th century B.C., it is revealed that not only is Dionysus born of a virgin but his blood is wine to be shared.

The Mithras Mystery
Another prominent pagan religion that was at the height of its popularity at around the same time as Jesus was the cult of Mithras. Mithras actually shares many attributes with Jesus, including a last supper just before Mithras ascended to heaven. Initiates of the Mithras cult partook of a sacred meal in honor of Mithras that included both bread and wine, which were believed to be the flesh and blood of a great bull that was slain by Mithras.

The Pagan Origin of the Communion | People - Opposing Views

 

[justabubba]

Let me get this straight. With all the horrors in this world, God chooses to show himself in a cracker in Poland. Maybe he is really one of the Keebler elves.:lol:

gives new meaning to the expression "Christ on a cracker"

 

[iguanaman]

This life is a test. Like all tests, you are allowed to fail.

Speaking of tests, how do you know if it is really Satan's blood on that cracker and not Christs

 

[Gathomas88]

Do I believe that God choose to show himself in a pagan inspired ritual? You must be kidding.


The Pagan Origin of the Communion | People - Opposing Views

You realize none of that is actually true, right? :roll:

There were no similarities between Christ and Mithras until centuries after Christianity had become an established religion. The Mithras cult actually ripped off Christians, not the other way around.

Dionysus, meanwhile, was conceived by Zeus whoring around (as usual), and was actually born from Zeus's thigh, after being sown into it on the death of his mother (long story). Dionysus was also the god of drunkenness and debauchery. He has nothing at all in common with Christ.

 

[Gathomas88]

Speaking of tests, how do you know if it is really Satan's blood on that cracker and not Christs

Any other stupid trollish questions you'd like to get out of your system? :roll:

 

[countryboy]

Do I believe that God choose to show himself in a pagan inspired ritual? You must be kidding.


The Pagan Origin of the Communion | People - Opposing Views

Can libs ever just answer a simple ****ing question? Aren't you an atheist?

 

[Paleocon]

Catholic Herald - Bleeding Host in Poland Has Hallmarks of a Eucharistic Miracle



Long story short, a Consecrated Eucharist (Communion Wafer) fell on the floor Christmas day, and subsequently began to bleed (I'm not sure if it was dropped, and then began to bleed, or was dropped because it was bleeding). A piece of the wafer was excised, and sent to a couple of medical universities for study, who claim to have found muscle tissue in the bread, from a human heart. That heart tissue shows signs of distress.

This is, of course, of extreme relevance to Roman Catholics, as we hold the Eucharist to literally be the "body and blood of Christ," in spiritual form.

I'm sure this won't convince any skeptics out there (and I'm not sure if the Vatican has weighed in yet), but it is an interesting case nonetheless. "Miracles" are regarded as being a thing of the past by most people, not something contemporary.

What'd be really cool is if they could DNA test the fragment, and find that the tissue came from a Jewish man of Middle Eastern descent. lol

Article says the Holy See approved it.

The fact that stuff like this doesn't trigger mass conversions really shows that unbelievers are unbelievers not because of a lack of evidence, but because of unwillingness.

I've heard of similar instances, the problem is, they never seem to be able to get any DNA.

They've blood typed several of them. All AB+, same as the Shroud of Turin.

 

[iguanaman]

You realize none of that is actually true, right? :roll:

There were no similarities between Christ and Mithras until centuries after Christianity had become an established religion. The Mithras cult actually ripped off Christians, not the other way around.

Dionysus, meanwhile, was conceived by Zeus whoring around (as usual), and was actually born from Zeus's thigh, after being sown into it on the death of his mother (long story). Dionysus was also the god of drunkenness and debauchery. He has nothing at all in common with Christ.

Except that wine thing...Oh and it is a falsehood that Mithra ripped off Christianity because it most certainly preceded it.

Augustine, Firmicus, Justin, Tertullian, and others, having perceived the exact resemblance between the religion of Christ and the religion of Mithra, did, with an impertinence only to be equalled by its outrageous absurdity, insist that the devil, jealous and malignant, induced the Persians to establish a religion the exact image of Christianity that was to be—for these worthy saints and sinners of the church could not deny that the worship of Mithra preceded that of Christ—so that, to get out of the ditch, they summoned the devil to their aid, and with the most astonishing assurance, thus accounted for the striking similarity between the Persian and the Christian religion, the worship of Mithra and the worship of Christ; a mode of getting rid of a difficulty that is at once so stupid and absurd, that it would be almost equally stupid and absurd seriously to refute it.

Mithra the Pagan Christ | Mithraism and Christianity | Mithras the Sun God

 

[Gathomas88]

Except that wine thing...

The supposed connection is tenuous at best.

Again, Dionysus was a god of debauchery and drunkenness. Of course his rituals involved wine and feasting.

The Last Supper, contextually speaking, was nothing of the kind. Christ and his Apostles were celebrating the Jewish holiday of Passover.

Oh and it is a falsehood that Mithra ripped off Christianity because it most certainly preceded it.

None of which changes the fact that there is absolutely no record of "similarities" between Christ and Mithras until roughly the third or fourth centuries AD. They most likely took those ideas from Christianity, and added them into their own religion, not the other way around.

The Mithras cult was also never particularly large.

 

[RAMOSS]

The supposed connection is tenuous at best.

Again, Dionysus was a god of debauchery and drunkenness. Of course his rituals involved wine and feasting.

The Last Supper, contextually speaking, was nothing of the kind. Christ and his Apostles were celebrating the Jewish holiday of Passover.



None of which changes the fact that there is absolutely no record of "similarities" between Christ and Mithras until roughly the third or fourth centuries AD. They most likely took those ideas from Christianity, and added them into their own religion, not the other way around.

The Mithras cult was also never particularly large.

It, however, was pretty popular in Tarsus in the 1st century bc though the 1st century ad. Oh Guess who was from Tarsus!! OMG. Paul/Saul. I will point out that the Mithraism in Tarsus in that time period was the Persian version, not the Roman version.

 

[Logicman]

Except that wine thing...Oh and it is a falsehood that Mithra ripped off Christianity because it most certainly preceded it.

Mithra the Pagan Christ | Mithraism and Christianity | Mithras the Sun God

“ We do know that Mithraism, like its mystery competitors, had a basic myth. Mithra was supposedly born when he emerged from a rock; he was carrying a knife and torch and wearing a Phrygian cap. He battled first with the sun and then with a primeval bull, thought to be the first act of creation. Mithra slew the bull, which then became the ground of life for the human race.” Nash and other scholars are unanimous in their conclusions that the so-called “similarities” between Mithra and Christ are not found prior to the advent of Christianity and the birth of Jesus. It was only after Christianity became established that pagan influences merged with and borrowed from Christianity to come up with the alleged similarities with Jesus Christ." - Scholar Ron Nash, Christianity and the Hellenistic World

 

[spud_meister]

Gotta say, if I found humab tissue in my crackers, i'd be making a complaint.

 

[phattonez]

The fact that stuff like this doesn't trigger mass conversions really shows that unbelievers are unbelievers not because of a lack of evidence, but because of unwillingness.

In my experience, sin makes you pretty irrational. It's why I didn't accept the teaching on contraception for a while.

They've blood typed several of them. All AB+, same as the Shroud of Turin.

This to me is so amazing.

 

[beefheart]

A) Most of those "horrors" are pretty soundly of our own making.

B) Even horrors serve their purpose in God's plan.

If legitimate, I'd look at events like those in the OP as being a somewhat more subtle indication to the faithful that, "Yes, God is still here."

Another supposed supernatural event that is just the usual dogmatic bilge. But I bet that the tithing levels went up!

 

[Manc Skipper]

Aged blood deteriorates, and always tests as AB. Not amazing, science.

 

[Gathomas88]

Aged blood deteriorates, and always tests as AB. Not amazing, science.

Source?

Besides, the blood in this latest incident wouldn't really be "aged."

 

[beefheart]

Gotta say, if I found humab tissue in my crackers, i'd be making a complaint.