Deepertruth: Eucharistic Miracle in United States

On June 7, the Church celebrates Corpus Christi Sunday. Exactly one year ago from that day (liturgically speaking), our present "Fr. Joseph, MIC" Fr. Chris Alar, MIC, had an unusually clear glimpse of Jesus' Real Presence in the Eucharist:

... On Corpus Christi Sunday, an incident occurred that helped set the tone for Fr. Chris' trip and his priestly ministry.

Father Chris was leading a Eucharistic procession through the neighborhoods when two young men stopped him in his tracks and shouted vulgarities aimed at the Blessed Sacrament.

"I was at complete peace," Fr. Chris recalls. "All I did was grip the Monstrance tightly because I knew they wanted to desecrate the Eucharist in some way. They threatened me, but they were more concerned with wanting to desecrate the Eucharist. Then one of them grabbed the Monstrance, and the moment he grabbed it, his hand was thrown off the Monstrance, and it appeared to have burned his hands. He gripped his hands in pain. We all saw it. The man then stepped back, and the two of them got out of the way."

Father Chris continues, "God once in awhile gives a sign, and man did He give a sign! I left Canada with a renewed wonder for the truth of the Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, and secondly, a renewed love for the Native American people." ...

As it was with Fr. Chris and the monstrance, so was it in the Old Testament with the Ark of the Covenant and the Levitical priests: Only the Levites, the priests who were members of the tribe of Aaron, could touch the Ark of the Covenant. 

At that time he [David] said, "No one may carry the ark of God except the Levites, for the LORD chose them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister to him forever" — 1 Chr 15:2