IN LOVE WITH THE MOST HOLY EUCHARIST
Many congratulations to Heidi Hess Saxton for her book, Eucharistic Stories: A Family Treasury of Saints and Seekers . With tenderness and warmth she conveyed the story of the Christ Child appearing over the consecrated Host in Peru during the mid 1600s. Reading it causes the heart to soar; a Franciscan monk, Fr. Jerome was about to return the Host to the tabernacle when he and his congregation beheld the charming Divine Child appear before their very eyes with 3 white dots over His Heart to signify the Trinity. The n with motherly compassion, Hess Saxton includes the story of London-born Blessed Carlo Acutis , "the Millennial Saint" who used his pocket money to buy a sleeping bag for a homeless fellow. He developed such an appreciation for the Real Presence that when he was diagnosed with leukemia, he asked his parents if he could spend his last days visiting shrines devoted to Eucharistic miracles. Carlo died at 15. He died of blood cancer but he is our model for how to ...
