The recovered consecrated hosts. (Courtesy of Avvenire)
Posted on 02/22/2018 3:14:00 PM PST by ebb tide
Forty ‘miraculously’ preserved, consecrated hosts have been discovered in a church that was destroyed by a large earthquake in central Italy in 2016.
The hosts, recovered from a tabernacle recently retrieved from the ruins of the parish church of Arquata del Tronto, have no bacteria or mold, as usually happens to hosts after a few weeks, according to the Italian bishops’ newspaper Avvenire.
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Glory be to God!
No offense but on the web I found numerous communion wafer available that are guaranteed to stay fresh for at least ten months.
While I understand that finding a quality product may be considered a miracle I suspect that this is just a case of a quality product somehow making its way into Italy.
I’ve read of a particular case where it was something like 100 years for a large number hosts that were stolen, then recovered. I’m open to Eucharistic miracles, and that has my attention. I think I agree with you on this case. Low moisture product in a pretty-well sealed container for 16 months. Perhaps not typical, but I wouldn’t rush to call it “miraculous.” Good quality control at the factory more likely.
No offense taken, but did you read the article in full?
He said the wafers had been prepared by nuns at the convent of Sant'Onofrio. “I immediately asked them if they used preservatives and they told me: ‘No, just flour and water.’"
See post #5.
I challenge the both of you to put a slice of bread in a sealed container, leave it outside, and report back in 16 months.
Communion wafers only contain flour, oil, water and salt and are baked until hard and dry. There is nothing to mold. If any do mold, look at when the last time the conainter was washed.
If the slice of bread is inside of a sealed container then how can it also be outside?
Outside you house, in your backyard.
If the slice of bread is inside a sealed container then why would it matter where I stored the container?
Thinking about it, if I put is outside then it’s more likely to last a long time because any mold or fungus will be killed by sunlight and heat.
Do you think tabernacles are vacuum sealed every time the priest closes the door?
Let me make it simple for you.
Put a slice a bread in a Tupperware container, tape it up so the racoons can’t get to it, throw it your back-yard and report back in 16 months on how that piece of bread tastes.
Valid matter for the Eucharist in the Latin church can contain only wheat flour and water. Oil and salt are not allowed.
Absolutely not apt. More appropriate is put a rice cracker in the container or a rye crispy. Something as close to zero moisture as you can get in a baked good. LookFRiend, I’m a Catholic and I believe in miracles. My point is simply this is well within the range of possible natural occurrences.
Why? Does your church offer rice crackers and rye crispys for communion?
But go ahead, put your rice crackers in the tupperware and tell me how they taste in 16 months.
Ok. Invested. Got it. God bless, FRiend
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