duna pod koy ipangutana kay wa jud ko makahibawo
ngano man pod nga nahibaw-an man nga type AB ang dugo ni kristo
The Miraculous points to Truth
Miracles were used by Jesus to prove He was the person He claimed to be. From early times, the Catholic Church has relied on miracles as proof that a person was in heaven (two documented miracles are required before canonization of a Saint). The unique and inexplicable nature of Miracles is a way God points us to truth.
Why do I bring this up? Miracles also point to another truth of the Catholic faith: the Eucharist is the Body and Blood of Christ. Over the years, there have been numerous Eucharistic miracles, which primarily consist of the bread and wine actually turning into skin and blood. Non-Catholic scientists (sometimes atheists) have studied these miraculous events in detail to try and explain them using secular terms. Many of these scientists have later converted solely because of these events. Two examples:
The Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano. In the 8th century, a priest, who is after all human, in Lanciano, Italy had doubts about whether the Eucharist really was the body and blood of Jesus. Until one day, during Mass, the bread and wine visibly changed into flesh and blood. To be exact, it turned into heart tissue, complete with veins. The blood type has been shown to be AB. Testing began in 1574, was undertaken again in 1970, and finally again in 1981 by a well known doctor in Italy. You can click the link above for more details including pictures – or you can go to Italy and see it for yourself at the Church of St. Legontian.
The Eucharistic Miracle of Sienna. Again in Italy, but this time in 1730, a different type of miracle occurred. Consecrated hosts, which become the body and blood of Christ during the consecration, were stolen from a Church in Sienna. A few days later they were found and returned to the Church. But oddly enough, after some time had passed the hosts were not deteriorating as they should. In fact, they seemingly looked new. Since then they have been tested and tasted to see why this preservation is occurring, but there is no scientific explanation. The little Church in Italy still puts them on display each month for viewing. These hosts have survived 250 years and still look and taste new.
There are many other miracles surrounding the Eucharist, but this is just two of them (chosen because they are different). These are examples of God miraculously intervening in our lives in order to solidify our faith and strengthen our understanding. Some people believe that clear, visible miracles have ceased to exist, but in the Catholic Church this is not true. Miracles continue to occur – from Saints whose bodies do not decay to mystical appearances of Christ to Eucharistic miracles – regularly in the Catholic Church. This is just another way of God pointing to His Church and its special role in the world.
Another Fact
After I read the page on the Lanciano miracle that said both the blood type of the Shroud of Turin and the Heart Tissue had AB blood types I started talking to an Athiest friend on Instant Messanger. We were talking about the odds of the existence of God in several scenerios and how it seems any way you look at the existence of God is the favorite. Here is the example we found with these miracles. Mathamatically speaking, all the odds of different probabilities of one thing have to add up to 100%. In this case, there are two possibilities, either the two miracles are fakes, or God got involved. So, if we take the odds of the two being faked, and minus it from 100%, we have the probability of God existing based on this example.
Now, both the shroud and the heart tissue appeared in Europe but in different places at different times in history, so if they were frauds they couldn't have been made by the same person, but both would be made by Europeans. AB is a very rare blood type among europeans, at 3% in France and Italy where the objects appeared (source =
http://www.bloodbook.com/world-abo.html). The odds of the first faker being AB are 3 / 100, the odds of the second faker being AB are 3 / 100, if you times those numbers together the odds of both being faked are 9 over 10000.
Since these miracles occured long before blood types were known it would have been impossible for some kind of conspiracy. This means that the other 9991 over 10000 are the odds that both objects came from Jesus.
source:
http://www.deoomnisgloria.com/archives/2004/07/the_miraculous.htmlLinkback: https://tubagbohol.mikeligalig.com/index.php?topic=11030.0
