Blessed Carlo Acutis' Eucharistic Miracles of the World
St Gregory the Great Church Sacred Heart of Jesus parish 1545 South Green Rd. South Euclid September 19, 2024
Carlo Acutis was an Italian website designer who documented Eucharistic miracles and approved Marian apparitions, and catalogued both on a website he designed before his death from leukemia. He was beatified by Pope Francis on October 10, 2020. After a second miracle was confirmed in May 2024, Pope Francis granted approval in July 2024 to continue forward with the canonization process. He will be canonized at a yet unannounced later date.
In memory of Acutis, Bishops Raffaello Martinelli and Angelo Comastri have helped to organize a traveling photo exhibition of all the Eucharistic miracle sites. It has since traveled to dozens of different countries across five continents.
Wikipedia says, "In general, reported Eucharistic miracles usually consist of unexplainable phenomena such as consecrated Hosts visibly transforming into myocardium tissue, being preserved for extremely long stretches of time, surviving being thrown into fire, bleeding, or even sustaining people for decades. In the Catholic Church, a special task-force or commission scientifically investigates supposed Eucharistic miracles before deciding whether they are "worthy of belief," in order to differentiate real Eucharistic miracles from cases of contamination by bacteria, such as Neurospora crassa or Serratia marcescens. As with other private revelations, such as Marian apparitions, belief in approved miracles is not mandated by the Catholic Church, but often serves to reassure believers of God's presence or as the means to "send a message" to the population at large."
We saw the Exhibition at St Gregory the Great Church of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in South Euclid, Ohio on September 19, 2024. The video only shows an overview of the display and a couple of the panels. You can view them all online.
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