Dr. Scott French is on a spirit-led mission to share the scientific evidence of the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist….
An emergency medicine physician and former Stanford professor may seem to be an unlikely messenger. But French is a member of the advisory board of Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer’s Magis Center, whose mission is to turn the rising tide of unbelief in our culture through contemporary, rational and science-based evidence….
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone invited French to speak about “21st-Century Eucharistic Miracles” at the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Eucharistic Congress held this past June at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. In his presentation, French linked similarities between 21st-century Eucharistic miracles, biblical passages and the Shroud of Turin, which he viewed in 2015….
In one sense, a Eucharistic miracle occurs at every Catholic Mass when the substance of bread and wine is changed into the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus, said Father Spitzer. However, 21st-century Eucharistic miracles provide us with validated scientific evidence that it truly is the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus. These more recent Eucharistic miracles demonstrate that the consecrated hosts not only miraculously “bleed” human type AB blood but are living cardiac muscle tissue possessing living white blood cells:
– 1996 in Buenos Aires, Argentina: This was the first 21st-century Eucharistic miracle that was extensively studied by multiple physicians and scientists, including Dr. Frederick Zugibe, a renowned cardiologist and forensic pathologist at Columbia University in New York. His findings were published in 2005. When interviewed about his findings, Zugibe stated his amazement about the sample he had just examined in his forensic lab:
“When I was later told that the heart tissue was kept in tap water for about a month and transferred to sterile, distilled water for three years, I indicated that it would be impossible to see white blood cells or macrophages in the sample. Moreover, it would be impossible to identify the tissue per se, as there would be no morphological characteristics.”
– 2006 in Tixtla, Mexico: A consecrated host began to effuse a reddish substance during a Mass. Dr. Castanon Gomez, clinical psychologist from Bolivia who specializes in brain biochemistry, led a team of eight scientists from four continents in an in-depth investigation. The former atheist-scientist-turned-Catholic reported the following:
“Real blood with cells originating from live tissue is being exuded from the consecrated host. The source of that blood is live cardiac tissue in the center of the host. The blood is being exuded from the inside-out (with the liquid blood being inside and flowing toward the exterior where it is coagulated).”
– 2008 in Sokolka, Poland: A priest accidentally dropped a host while distributing Holy Communion, and it was placed into a container of water. A week later, the host had a red stain on it. Two separate medical schools in Poland examined the consecrated host and found:
“The substance of the host and the substance of the heart tissue are so closely intermingled as to be virtually inseparable and unproducible by current technologies. The tissue part of the Sokolka host is cardiac tissue. The cardiac tissue is that of a dying man—the tissue is still alive.”
– 2013 in Legnica, Poland: On Christmas Day, a consecrated host fell on the floor and was put into a container of water to dissolve. As in all the previous 21st-century Eucharistic miracles, the consecrated host did not dissolve and instead, the substance changed to type AB blood in living heart tissue that was under severe stress, as indicated by the living white blood cells in the heart tissue, surviving for months outside of a human body….
Dr. French has dedicated 2023 and 2024 to making presentations on 21st-century Eucharistic miracles at parishes and schools within the Archdiocese. To bring this compelling presentation to your parish, contact Nicolle Dougherty at nicolle@sfeucharistrevival.com.
Visit www.magiscenter.com to learn more about 21st Century Eucharistic miracles.
In 1982 I was campus minister at Daniel Murphy High School and Fr. Esposito, the principal, made me a eucharistic minister for the school Masses. The very first time I undertook this service I was made aware of a powerful grace when I first touched the sacred host. Our Lord made it abundantly clear that this was His sacred body, soul and divinity. I will never forget that miracle–for that’s really what it was. I share this because 99% of the time in receiving holy communion I feel nothing, unlike others who may experience grace more often. I don’t know what the experience of others is who post here, but as I look back on my life, I see God blessing me powerfully in earlier times and leaving me now, in general, void of Divine consolations. Since that one year, I have not again been a eucharistic minister, preferring instead to be part of the music ministry year after year, mostly with violin and/or viola. That said, if anyone reading this is asked to be a eucharistic minister, I would encourage you to do so.
I have the same experience where when I was converting there were many moments of Divine Consolation. In general, they did not come at the time of reception of the Blessed Sacrament.
It is less noticeable now because I live in the Light.
Just this morning I had the lights on before the sun rose. Once the sun rose and filled the window with light, you could not tell the lights were even on.
I have prayed hard for two certain favors this week. I received one and was given an understanding on why the other was denied.
I have received consolations throughout the week, but if I had just focused on disappointment about the favor denied (which really was not that important and God could grant the purpose of my request without granting the actual request-which He did) I would have not noticed the consolations.
It is a great blessing to receive Divine consolations, which are like nothing else on earth. The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis has a lot to say about such blessings — their comings and goings. I like your comment: “It is less noticeable now because I live in the Light.” A soul firmly grounded in Christ does not require the frequent consolations that a convert (yes I am one too) may need. It is up to God to give as He will and when He will, or for His own purposes, to withhold consolations.