The pastor of a Catholic church in Connecticut reported a miracle during Lent in an emotional message to the congregation.
Father Joseph Crowley had just finished serving the Holy Communion when he shared the apparent miracle at St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Thomaston on March 5.
“We had something happen. It’s hard to say actually,” Crowley, a Roman Catholic priest, said.
The local FOX station visited the church and reported on the alleged miracle:
“God provides and sometimes it comes in a weird way, a mystical way, in a strange way, and one of our eucharistic ministers was running out of hosts and yet, they didn’t. Suddenly, there was more hosts in the ciborium. Just God duplicated Himself,” he explained.
Eucharistic wafers, which Catholics believe transform themselves into the body of Christ, reportedly multiplied in a blessed serving vessel called a ciborium during communion.
The Catholic leader called it “very powerful, very awesome, very real, very shocking” and said he has “no doubt” it was a miracle.
“They were running out of hosts and all of a sudden more hosts were there. So today not only did we have the miracle of the Eucharist, we also had a bigger miracle. It’s pretty cool,” the priest said.
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Congregants, who celebrated the good news, agreed.
“Just feel it in your heart. How can you look at everything that’s going on and not believe?” Jean Beck, who lost her mother two days before it happened, told FOX 61. “It was such a glorious, joyful, wonderful thing that it brought peace to my heart because she was a parishioner all her life here.”
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Michael Conway told the outlet, “It surprises me. I hope it’s real. If it isn’t at least it will bring somebody back to faith and we know that these things can happen.”
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The church is where Blessed Michael McGivney, the founder of Knights of Columbus, once led. He’s already had a miracle attributed to him and a second one could put him on the path to sainthood in the Catholic tradition. McGivney was “beatified” in 2020.
The Archdiocese of Hartford is investigating the reported miracle before it goes to the Vatican.
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