It’s not infrequent, as long-time viewers know, for us to report alleged miracles.
That was the case nearly a week ago, when we carried a social media item on what some have taken to be a possible Eucharistic miracle in Morris, Indiana, where specks of red were spotted.
“The story is that on Friday a host was dropped during daily Mass and instead of consuming it, they put it into water and left it in the tabernacle to dissolve,” it was stated. “A few hours later the priest found another host that had been dropped somewhere and placed that in the tabernacle as well.”
The next day, while preparing for Saturday evening Mass, the parish sacristan “found spots of blood” in the dish, describing what she saw in the dish as “a very, very thin piece of skin with blood on it.”
A lab is investigating. Such redness can be from bacteria. But who knows? Look at the Hosts at Lanciano and Santarem and Betania.
Here’s another from Cincinnati more than a year ago:
Here’s another. And another. And a video clip here. The list is long.
How about this:
Then there are lights—unusual luminosities. Just pareidolia (when we imagine figures in it)?
In the mail, from Lasz Mesz of Michigan, to do with the glowing silhouette above:+
“I was a missionary behind the Iron Curtain (just after the Fall of the Wall after JP II’s Consecration) for ten years. Then Jesus told me, ‘America Needs Missionaries Now,’ and I came back.+
“I had written you a month or so ago about this photo when you first posted it, asking if you had details about it, but you didn’t reply (I think you were traveling). I wanted to give you details in case you didn’t have any. Since you posted the photo again, here are details:
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“First of all, it is not ‘a photo of Our Lady’ [as many believed]—but is a photo of Our Lady and Her Divine Son, Jesus, as a little Boy, standing in front of her with His two little Hands raised in blessing. This can be discerned from the original photo.
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+“This was taken on September 3, 1989 in Karácsond, Hungary, in the Karácsond Catholic Church while a professor of Sacred Art Restoration, Károly (Carl) Ligeti, was restoring the painting of Archangel Saint Michael behind the altar.
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“Every few days, he recorded his progress by photography to show his university students and to keep for his archives.
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“On that day, he asked his taxi chauffeur, who had brought him to the church, to take a photo of him up on the scaffolding painting. As the professor turned around to look down at the chauffeur and camera from the scaffolding, he saw down below by the tabernacle the white Light and 3D forms of a woman with a Child in front of her.
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“No one else saw them. There were two women in the pews praying. They noticed nothing, and the chauffeur taking the picture also didn’t notice anything. Professor Ligeti was so affected by the experience that he took the next two weeks off from work.
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“The images came out on the photo, showing what he had seen. The Child Jesus in front of His Mother, Giving Blessing to the world, and Mary, With the Crown of Stars over Her Head, both of Them ‘clothed with the sun.’
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“The photo developers signed affidavits saying nothing was changed in the photo. Since then, Professor Ligeti, with his photo and its negative, has been contacted and studied by NASA, the Vatican, physicists, and others from around the world.
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“The name Karácsond is similar to the Hungarian word for Christmas, Karácsony—except for the final letter. At Christmas, Mary brings us Jesus… as the Apparition also configures.
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“The Woman Clothed with the Sun, the Great Sign of the Apocalypse (Revelation 12:1), has been seen in many places, Deo Gratias (I saw her that way in Medjugorje); but photos are relatively rare (another series of famous photographs are from Zeitoun and the area in Egypt where tradition has it the Holy Family sought refuge from Herod, where there have been numerous Apparitions of Our Lady ‘Clothed with the Sun, witnessed [below] by huge crowds of people, photographed and videotaped, accompanied by awesome miraculous healings of witnesses. [See The Final Hour]
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“As it is often discerned that the seeing of Our Lord in white Light at the Transfiguration was to help the apostles get through His Passion and Crucifixion until the Resurrection, so seeing the ‘Woman Clothed with the Sun’ and knowing about Medjugorje and her other apparitions strengthens us to get through the labor pains (which we have now entered) until the arrival of the New Life, the New Era of the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the ‘Kingdom Come,’ as Our Lord taught us to Pray for in His Prayer to Our Father.
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“Our Blessed Mother has said, in Medjugorje, that when the ten events foretold in Medjugorje, referred to now as the ‘ten Secrets,’ are finished, Satan’s power on earth will be stopped, the infrastructure of evil destroyed, and the ‘New Times’ begun (Revelation 20). The visionaries have said of the fruit of the ten secrets that ‘evil will no longer be active on the Earth’ and ‘nothing will remain that is not of God.’ This is why her apparitions in Medjugorje [the first week of which have been Vatican-authenticated] will be ‘the final ones’ where she ‘can be seen and touched,’ because ‘there will no longer be a need’ for her to appear that way.
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“Again, about Karácsond: Hungary was officially given to Mary as its sovereign queen by King Saint István (Stephen) on the solemnity of the Assumption, on his deathbed, in 1038 AD. After that, money was stamped with her image and was called ‘Maria’s.’
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“There were numerous Apparitions of Mary to the Hungarians, and in the early 1960’s she and Our Lord visited a Hungarian widow with six children, Elizabeth Kindelmann for twenty years in what are called ‘The Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart’ Messages [see below], to ask her assistance in helping to prepare the world for this Great Outpouring of Grace which will bring in the New Era.
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“They asked that Elizabeth spread the word of this event—Our Lady’s ‘greatest co-operation with Grace since the Incarnation,’ along with offering prayer and sacrifices, united with Our Lord’s and Blessed Mother’s, to help the maximum number of people to be open to receive that outpouring on “that Day when the Prayers of the world will meld into One Great Cry for Help.’
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“Since we must ask for Graces, as Our Lady told Saint Catherine Labouré, that day will be when the world is asking for help from Heaven. And our Blessed Mother, as Mediatrix, will respond to our calls and mediate to us the effect of her unique union with God, which, in effect, ‘shall crush the head of the serpent,’ incapacitating his ability to affect us, in a similar way as the darkness of night is vanquished by the dawn. In fact, in Hungary, Mary is called ‘the Beautiful Light of Dawn’ for this reason.
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“Our Lord Said that That Day ‘will be similar to the first Pentecost.’ [For our discernment: the mystical ‘wild side.”]
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“It will be as Saint John’s Vision showed him: ‘A Woman Clothed with the Sun, Wailing in Childbirth.’ The events of the ten secrets will be a powerful transition from our current experience of life in the fallen state to God’s Kingdom Come. At least for ‘the Thousand Years,’ as symbolically expressed in the Vision of Saint John the Beloved… After which Satan will be again unleashed from his chains in the Abyss, followed at some point by Armageddon, the End of the World, Jesus’ Return in Glory as Just Judge, the closing of Purgatory, and the Final Judgment.
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“As we go forward in God’s Plan of Love and Mercy, we can follow the guidance of Our Blessed Mother who tells us to ‘Pray, Pray, Pray,’ and as Jesus directed Saint Faustina to have inscribed below Him on the Divine Mercy Image, to live the words: ‘Jesus, I Trust in You.’
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“And as a popular t-shirt recently saw says: ‘I’ve Got This.’ Signed, God.'”
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