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So I've been asked to speak on the phenomenon of Eucharistic miracles.

We're going to investigate this rare but occasional and well-documented phenomenon in Catholic life

in a couple of different ways.

Basically, what is going on with the Eucharistic miracle is when the sacred species of the Eucharist

turns into what looks like human flesh, or if the host bleeds, or the image of a man or a boy is seen in the host.

So for those of you who are Catholic, you're probably familiar with what a host normally looks like.

It brought examples.

These are not consecrated hosts.

These are unconsecrated bread, pieces of bread, basically.

So as you can see, I don't know what your hosts look exactly like here. I did mass here two years ago when I was here, but I presume they look like this. So basically they're white,

they're circular, tastes like bread, act like bread. Right now they are just bread. They're not the

Eucharist. But even when they are the Eucharist, when the priest does do the consecration,

you know if you have received

Holy Communion that it tastes like bread, it chews like bread, if you were to, there's not much

of a smell, but if you were to smell it, it would smell like bread.

That's normal.

With a Eucharistic miracle, something very anormal occurs. Instead of just a white host, for instance, blood appears as one possibility.

Or what looks and feels and tastes like bread turns into human flesh.

To do our investigation today, we're going to think through this problem with the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron of the

Tomistic Institute and of the chapter here at the University of Florida of the Domestic Institute.

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