{"id":6995,"date":"2023-06-21T16:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=6995"},"modified":"2023-06-21T16:35:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:35:50","slug":"miracle-in-connecticut-vatican-to-investigate-connecticut-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2023\/06\/miracle-in-connecticut-vatican-to-investigate-connecticut-church.html","title":{"rendered":"Miracle in Connecticut? Vatican to Investigate Connecticut Church"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An alleged miracle at a Connecticut church is being sent to the Vatican for confirmation. The event occurred at the March 5th mass at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Thomaston, CT, when one of the volunteers involved in Communion claimed to have seen the host (communion bread) multiplying. Rev. Joseph Crowley <\/span>announced<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the miracle to his congregation at the end of the mass, saying, \u201cOne of our eucharistic ministers was running out of hosts, and suddenly there were more hosts in the ciborium. God just duplicated himself in the ciborium.\u201d The ciborium is the silver bowl designated to hold the host when Communion is given out on Sundays. The event is reminiscent of the miracle of the multiplying loaves and fish, the only miracle besides the Resurrection recorded in all four of the Gospels. \u201cIt\u2019s really, really cool when God does these things, and it\u2019s really, really cool when we realize what he\u2019s done,\u201d said Crowley. \u201cVery powerful, very awesome, very real, very shocking. But also, it happens, and today it happened. 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, but we also had a bigger miracle. It\u2019s pretty cool.\u201d Crowley also stated that at the end of the mass, there were just as many Communion wafers as before mass started, possibly more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Archdiocese of Hartford looked into the miracle and sent its results to the Holy See. St. Thomas Aquinas defined miracles as \u201cthose things \u2026 which are done by divine power apart from the order generally followed in things.\u201d Most miracles the church investigates deal with spontaneous healings that appear to defy the laws of medicine. In such instances, the church gathers a board of medical professionals to review the healing. To investigate the multiplying hosts, investigators could request access to video footage to see if someone refilled the hosts without the Communion helper\u2019s knowledge. Michael O\u2019Neill, known as the \u201cMiracle Hunter,\u201d doubted there would be enough evidence to prove a miracle. \u201cI\u2019m guessing they have the testimony of numerous people who would have been able to say that they saw something and understood that this had to have been miraculous,\u201d he <\/span>said<\/span><\/a>. \u201cSo, I\u2019m guessing they\u2019re caught in the middle a little bit, not having the hard evidence but having good testimony. So, they\u2019re looking for some guidance from the Vatican,\u201d he said. If the miracle is confirmed, it will be the first of its kind of the hundreds of miracles involving Communion confirmed by the church. It would also be the first Communion miracle to appear in the United States. Rev. Dorian Llywelyn, incoming director of the Center for Ignatian Spirituality at Loyola Marymount University, stated he was interested in how the event would impact the faith of those in the congregation. \u201cI\u2019m not dissing the materiality because the increase in faith has to be based on something. But I\u2019m as interested, if not more interested, in the aftereffects,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An alleged miracle at a Connecticut church is being sent to the Vatican for confirmation. The event occurred at the March 5th mass at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Thomaston, CT, when one of the volunteers involved in Communion claimed to have seen the host (communion bread) multiplying. Rev. Joseph Crowley announced\u00a0the miracle to his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":7001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nMiracle in Connecticut? 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