Eucharistic Miracle in the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sibu, Malaysia

This Eucharistic miracle took place in our Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sibu, Sarawak, on 17th September, 1996 at about 9.00 p.m.

I was concelebrating the Eucharist with Mgr. William Bos, Fr, Tom Connors, Fr. Francis Su, Fr. Jacob Ong and Fr. Paul Chee.

About 3000 of our people, together with Mrs. Julia Kim from Naju, were present at this Eucharistic celebration During the sermon, I stressed on the real presence of our Lord Jesus in the Eucharist and the healing power of the Eucharistic Lord Durig holy communion time, Julia Kim came forward to receive communion from Fr. Francis Su. After a short while, the sacred host on the tongue of Julia Kim, turned into flesh and blood in the shape of a heart. Many people tried to have a look. I stopped them from doing so to avoid confusion whilst the distribuion of holy communion was still going on.

I enclose here a photo of this miracle.

A few minutes later, Julia consumed the flesh, Our Lord Jesus performed this miracle in order to confirm our faith in His real presence in the Eucharist.

To Him be glory and praise for ever and ever !

― Bishop Diminic Su, P.O. Box 495 96007 Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia Tel. No. 084-317373

Bishop Paul Chang Yeol Kim's Testimony by Phone

The telephone bell rang at about 8 a.m. It was Bishop Chang Yeol Kim of the Cheju Diocese. He often calls me to get information on Naju, because he knows me well as the president of the seminary in Seoul where I studied.

Bishop Kim witnessed a miracle of the Eucharist descending from above in Naju on June 12, 1997. He explained to me how he came to Naju on that day.

After attending a meeting at the seminary in Kwangju, I said to Archbishop Yoon, I wish to make a visit to Naju. Can I go with Fr. Jung Yong Kim. Fr. Kim belonged to the Kwangju Archdiocese and was Bishop Kims classmate in the seminary. Archbishop Yoon said, Please make the visit quiet. Bishop Kim only wanted to visit Naju and pray quietly there. So, he didnt even inform anyone in Naju about his visit. He arrived at the Blessed Mother's House and began praying the rosary in front of the Blessed Mother's statue that had wept tears and tears of blood. Soon Rufino Park came out and greeted the Bishop and, a while later, Julia came out. Rufino explained to the Bishop about the tears, tears of blood, fragrant oil and Eucharistic miracles. Rufino also explained the descent of the Eucharist from above the Blessed Mother's statue. Then, they were about to begin praying. Suddenly, a loud sound was heard from the front of the Blessed Mother's statue. The Bishop was surprised and looked. He saw a white Sacred Host landed on the altar before the Blessed Mother's statue. The Bishop said, It was the Eucharist for sure. So, I asked the Pastor of Naju to come and asked him to preserve the Eucharist well, as the Eucharistic miracle had never occurred in this manner. The Pastor carried the Eucharist to his Parish and placed it in the tabernacle. But the Eucharist was later moved to the Archdiocesan office. Bishop Kim added that his Eucharistic devotion became stronger because of this.

Bishop Kim continued, I reported this to Archbishop Yoon and also told him about the Eucharistic miracle in the Vatican (on October 31, 1995). Later I was invited to speak at a conference on theology hosted by a Protestant organization. I told them about a Protestant clergyman who came to Naju and testified in favor of the Marian devotion and also about the happenings in Naju. Many Catholic Bishops and Protestant ministers who attended the conference already knew about Naju and asked many questions. Bishop Kim also mentioned that a statue of the Blessed Mother owned by a family in Rome wept tears of blood four times and the local Bishop was already preparing to approve it. He said that he saw many pilgrims visiting that place and praying. I asked the Bishop, Why didnt you report the Eucharist miracle you witnessed to the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith? The Bishop said, What is the need? The Holy Father already (privately) approves it. The only thing that is needed now is an approval by Archbishop Yoon of Kwangju.

― Rev. Hong Bin Chang, Dongsan-Dong Catholic Church

Kwangju Archdiocese, June 25, 1997

November 24, 1994, it was the 23rd anniversary of my ordination to priesthood. It became an unforgettable day for another reason.

Someone asked me if I would go to Naju on November 24, 1994, as the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Korea was going to visit Naju on that day as the representative of the Holy Father. I was very surprised. Why on that day? Was it a sign that the Blessed Mother was calling me? So, I accompanied the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Naju. First, we prayed the rosary before the Blessed Mother's statue in the Chapel. A while later, Julia came in. The Apostolic Pro-Nuncios secretary (a monsignor) and Fr. Raymond Spies were also there. I was the only Korean priest. While all were praying silently for some time, Julia suddenly screamed and stretched out her both hands. She seemed to have caught something in her hands. It was a white object placed between her fingers. People in the Chapel came closer and the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio came, too. It was the Eucharist! The Apostolic Pro-Nuncio broke the Sacred Host a little at a time and gave Communion to each of the people in the Chapel on their tongues. I also rushed to the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio and received a piece of the Eucharist in my hands. I was surprised again, because, at the moment I received the Eucharist, I smelled a strong, intense fragrance of roses. How could this be!

Seven or eight minutes later, Julia finished her prayer and spoke briefly to the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio and Fr. Spies and walked toward the door, supported by others. Then, suddenly, she came back hurriedly and held the hands of the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio and Fr. Spies with her hands. They went closer to the Blessed Mother's statue and prayed. I was watching Julia carefully, because I thought something more might be happening. A few minutes later, Julia suddenly stood up, still holding the hands of the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio and Fr. Spies. She opened her mouth and seemed to have received something looking like a white host on her tongue.

The Apostolic Pro-Nuncio was surprised also and picked up the host

from Julias mouth with his fingers. I went closer and saw the host very clearly. The Apostolic Pro-Nuncio lifted up the host so that people in the Chapel may see it. I was thinking hard, because I did not know how to interpret such an event. Soon, three other priests arrived. The Apostolic Pro-Nuncio was explaining what happened to several foreign priests in English. He was not able to hide his excitement. He held my hands and another priests hands while speaking.

Later that day, I was on an airplane to return to my parish. Unexpectedly, the woman sitting next to me was one of the witnesses of the same miracle in Naju. Even though I did not ask her any questions, she explained to me many of the signs in Naju in great details. I was very surprised. She said that she had been in an advanced stage of uterine cancer, but was cured in Naju. On that day, she came to Naju to pray and witnessed the miracle of the Eucharist unexpectedly. She was full of enthusiasm.

What happened on that day was an event that I had found most difficult to understand and had many doubts about. I had not been able to ask anyone about it, either. Now, this lady whom I met in the airplane gave me an explanation and cleared my doubts. It was so surprising and amazing.?

― Rev. Sang-Chul Oh, Shinnam Parish, Chunchon Diocese, Korea

A Eucharistic Miracle in Sibu, Malaysia

Praise the Lord Who gave us a Eucharistic miracle in our town of Sibu.

This miracle occurred during Mass in the Sacred Heart Cathedral from 7:30 p.m. on September 17, 1996. The main celebrant at the Mass was our beloved Bishop Dominic Su, concelebrating Mass with other priests in the Sibu Diocese: Fr. William Bos, Fr. Thomas Conors, Fr. Jacob Ong, Fr. Paul Chee, and myself, an unworthy servant of the Lord. In addition, Fr. Anthony Lam and Fr. David Bingahm participated in the Mass. The Cathedral was packed with about 3,000 people.

Bishop Dominic Su, who is also my elder brother, delivered a fervent, moving sermon about the Power and Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. The Bishop urged us to have a trust in the healing power of Jesus, the King, Who is present in the Eucharist.

After the priests Communion, I gave Communion to Julia. While I was giving Communion to other people, those who were sitting near Julia noticed that there was blood in Julias mouth. The Sacred Host that I gave to Julia a few moments earlier had turned into visible Flesh and Blood.

I went to Julia and prayed with my hands on her head. I smelled the odor of blood and, then, saw the Sacred Host still moving and changing into Flesh in the shape of a heart. People were taking photographs. When the photographs were developed later, some of them had an image of Pieta on the Eucharist which had turned into visible Flesh.

I believe that what happened on September 17 was a sign and gift from Jesus and the Blessed Mother for all those who were present at the Mass. It was also a confirmation of what our Bishop said about Jesus Real Presence in the Eucharist during his sermon. It was the fifth Eucharistic miracle that I witnessed since my first pilgrimage to Naju in May 1995. Through these Eucharistic miracles, the Blessed Mother filled my heart with a realization about how urgent the task is to lead people to love the Blessed Sacrament which is the center of the Christian life. On October 31, 1995, the Blessed Mother gave the following message through Julia:

Teach the importance of the Mass, the importance of the Sacrament of Confession and the Mystery of the Holy Eucharist to all the children in the world who do not know them, and, thereby, perpetuate the gift of the Paschal Mysteries of the Last Supper and the Resurrection.

― Rev. Francis Su, St. Anthony Church, Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia, November 1996

Eucharistic Miracle in Korea Reveals

Sacred Heart of the Divine Victim

By Bishop Roman Danylak

It looked like a heart when we first examined the photos taken last September during Mass celebrated in a valley among the Naju hills in Korea. Our Lady has said she wants a church to be built there for the salvation of many. Later, I showed these photo to a pediatrician, Dr. Helen Owen. After, attentive examination, she said the heart in the photo was the size and had the exact configurations of the heart of an infant.

Sebastian, the layman present during the celebration with his camera, calculated the thickness of the host turned heart in the mouth of Julia against a twig he had in his hand. The heart was about 5mm thick. The pediatrician further noted various particulars, the lines of the veins in the heart and other features. It was a perfect human heart, not like a valentine, but a real human heart, the size of the heart of a child.

It was 5 p.m., Friday, Sept. 22, 1995, when two priests, Fathers Joseph Finn of London, Ontario and Aloysius Chang,(Julias spiritual advisor) and I had concelebrated the Eucharist In an out-door service amidst the Korean mountains.

There were sixteen Korean Catholic faithful present with Julia Kim, the Korean visionary, and ourselves, participating in this Mass. We had prepared the large white host, and number of small white hosts together with the wine for the Eucharist. The three of us had concelebrated Mass a week before, Friday, Sept, 15, an hour later at six p.m. And we had to finish the celebration by car light; it was pitch dark.

After that first Mass Julia came up to me with a question. She had seen a rainbow in the night sky at the time of the consecration, and asked me what could be its significance. The thought that occurred to me and that I shared with Julia through our translator, was about that first biblical rainbow after the great flood. God used it as a memorial to the first covenant He established between Himself and renewed mankind. We had just celebrated the memorial of the final covenant in the Divine Liturgy, or Eucharist, when Julia saw her rainbow.

For me it was the culmination of the day. I had been looking forward to this celebration with expectation, not in view of witnessing a miracle, but just ?to offer my daily Mass.

The only communications we had with Julia during the week were through her Korean translator, Raphael; our life in Naju was lived from moment to moment. We never knew what each day would bring. We could plan nothing.

Friday, Sept. 22, 1995, turned out to be a day of celebration. Fr. Finn and I were treated to a festive fish dinner at a sea-side restaurant near the Pacific. Julia and the group of the little community in Naju went all out to celebrate our visit, together with Korean sashimi and squirming fresh squid. After lunch we boarded our vans and continued to travel, with me wondering when we would celebrate Mass. It was after 4 p.m. when we drove into the compound of the valley that I knew we were to celebrate Holy Mass.

Banquet of the Lord

None of us even dreamed of this other celebration that the Lord and His Mother preparing, a heavenly love feast at the Eucharistic banquet of the Lord at one of the most awesome miracles granted by Our Lord in the twenty centuries of the history of the Church; to witness the transformation of the consecrated host and wine into the very Body, nay the very Heart, and the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, through the intercession of His Mother.

The rest of us received the Eucharistic Body and Blood of Christ, but in Julias mouth the Eucharistic species of the wine in the chalice, changed to the species of flesh and blood. The rest of us savoured the taste of wafer and wine as we received Holy Communion. We Knew with divine faith that these were the very Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist. We were joined to the living and glorified Christ, renewing His mystical and real oblation, offering Himself as the Divine Victim and His Mystical Body to the Father.

As Julia experienced the commingling of blood and flesh, the flesh expanding and moving in her mouth and the strong odour of blood. Fr. Finn observed the white of the host disappearing and changing into the dark red of living flesh.

In Julias mouth the species of unleavened bread changed to the species of flesh and the species of wine changed into the species of blood.

In the twilight of 5.30 p.m. that momentous Friday, the rest of us observed the moving flesh on he r tongue and filling the creases of her lips.

ONLY LATER, as we examined the photos, did we began to apprehend the full magnitude of the miracle. The host had changed into a living and vibrant Heart.

For the first time, human eyes saw the living Heart of Our Lord and saviour, the Heart that had so loved the world that It offered Itself in the holocaust that we might live and not be lost.

All those present at this memorable evening shared the same sentiments. We were one in mind and heart.

It was two months later, in November, that I finally received and read the text of the message of Jesus to Julia during her communion. This was the French translation of it by Fr. Spies. As I read this message from our Lord during that time of communion, I became aware that the words of Jesus confirmed our conjecture.

?My Mother is now showing and revealing My heart to a bishop. What we had viewed that September evening was the very heart of Jesus.

Bread of Life

?This is my body; this is My Blood?, said Christ as He distributed the first Eucharist to His apostles, fulfilling the promise He had given after the multiplication of fishes and loaves on the north shore of Lake Genesareth. Jesus is the bread of Life.

?He who comes to Me will never be hungry, he who has faith in me will never thirst.?(Jn. 6,15) Five times Jesus repeated and underlined and stressed that His flesh is real food, and His blood is real drink for eternal life, that whoever eats His flesh and drinks His blood, has life everlasting in him, and He will raise us up on the last day.

The theology and the doctrine of the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches have been constant to the present day. Bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ. This promise of Christ became a stumbling block for the Jews and scandal to the gentles. It has remained so to liberal Catholics, theologians, laity and even priests and a scandal to the Protestants, even to the present day.

Yet Jesus words are clear and He never retracted them. As the Pharisees and Sadducees, and even His disciples left Jesus only His twelve apostles remained with the Lord, heavy-hearted, He turned to His apostles with the question, Will you also leave Me??

And from those banks of the sea of Tiberias He scanned the ages even to this our present age, and watched as those who had come to know Him through His Church, turned away in disbelief and incredulity. His lament and His accusation of the neo-modernist intellectuals in the Church continues. ?Will you also leave Me??

JESUS POURED out His heart in His words to Julia: ?many ecclesiastics want to make Me Known through sophisticated arguments and complex reasonings, forgetting the eucharist, which is My very substance, and the sublime simplicity of My Gospels, which I proclaim. They are like those that sling mud at simple people.?(Message to Julia Kim, Sept. 22, 1995)

Eucharistic Miracles in the Catholic Church

Some who have observed the pictures and heard the story of the miracle have raised two specious theological arguments against them. The first invokes the authority of the Council of Trent which proclaimed the truth that the Eucharist contains the glorified and immutable body of Christ. Skeptics question: how, then, could the Eucharist bleed or change into living bleeding flesh, still less, change into a living heart?

Secondly, they posture, what purpose can such a miracle serve?

The history of the Church records more than one hundred and sixty approved Eucharistic miracles. I invoke two. The miracles of Lanciano and Bolsena in Italy:

At the beginning of the eighth century a Basilian monk of Lanciano(near Chieti in Italy)was tormented the words of consecration during mass. Before his eyes the Sacred host visibly changed into flesh, except in the center where the sacramental species remained intact. The consecrated wine changed into a bright red blood, that coagulated into five small clots.

This miraculous host and blood have been preserved to the present day. The popes of that period confirmed the authenticity of the miracle. And in our own days the Holy See commissioned a group of scientists to do laboratory research in 1970.

The Osservatore Romano of April 3, 1971 reported their findings, which confirmed that the blood is real blood and the flesh is real flesh composed of cardiac muscle tissue. The flesh is heart tissue. Both the host and the blood belong to the same person. This miracle continues now for 1200 years.

Pope Leo X, Clement X, Leo XIII and others have confirmed the authenticity and the veneration or cult given to this Miraculous Eucharist.

THE SECOND MIRACLE is the story of an unknown monk, Peter of Prague. It was the time of the Eucharistic controversies of the XIII Century. The priest monk Peter was celebrating mass at the main altar in the church of Saint Christina in Bolsena some time in 1263. The story goes that he was assailed by doubts in the truth of the Eucharist. He continued to celebrate. As he pronounced the words of consecration over the host and elevated the host, the un leavened bread turned into flesh and began to bleed profusely. News reached Rome quickly and the pontiff, Pope Urban IV, who was in Orvieto at the time, set out for Bolsena.

At the request of the pope the local bishop went to bring him the miraculous host. The pope was so eager to observe and to venerate the miracle that he hastened to meet the returning processions. They met at the Bridge of the Sun at the entrance to Orvieto. The Pope fell to the his knees in adoration of the Eucharistic Lord, whose bleeding Eucharistic Body lay on the corporal. The corporal has been preserved in the Orvieto cathedral to this present day.

The following year, August 1264, the Pope instituted the feast of Corpus Christi in honour of the Blessed Sacrament and he commissioned St. Thomas Aquinas to write the office of the feast. St. Thomas are the hymns ?O Salutaris Hostia? and ?Tantum Ergo?

The Church has acknowledged similar miracles, such as the bleeding of the Eucharist in Venezuela and elsewhere.

The Naju Miracles

There were nine significant Eucharistic miracles at Naju itself that preceded the miracle I am now presenting. These miracles began with the appearances of images of the Eucharist or the chalice in pictures taken of the weeping statue of Our lady in Naju. Later, the host received in communion by Julia changed into bleeding flesh, as testified by the priests and faithful present at communion. The papal pro-nuncio to Korea, Archbishop Giovanni Buleitis, was present when an invisible hand(of St. Michael the Archangel, as Julia later explained) placed the large host in her mouth.

Although the diocesan commission of Kwangjiu has not yet spoken on the twelve Eucharistic miracles that by now have taken place in association with Julia Kim, two bishops, Archbishop Giovanni Buleitis, the papal pro-nuncio to Korea and I, have authenticated our own experiences. Archbishop Buleitis has been following the events of Naju and has presented his findings to Pope John Paul II.

And to the astonishment and dismay of skeptics, the Holy Father himself, several months age, was also privy to the same miracle. The Eucharistic host became a living heart during the celebration of the Eucharist in his papal chapel in the Vatican, when Julia Kim received communion from his hands. Although the pope has not spoken of this himself, priest and lay eye witnesses documented the event and a recent publication in English, includes the report on the miracle and the texts of the messages of the Blessed Virgin.

Another difficulty I have encountered with the theologians over this has been, ?What purpose could such a phenomenon serve??

We have to ask the Author of this phenomenon and miraculous event in the first place, not Julia or me. Who are we to dictate to the author of these Miracles, the Eucharistic Lord Himself, what He is to do with the mystery of the Eucharistic miracles?

OPINIONS: The Bottom Line : Credible or Not? By Father Joseph Peter Finn

In a matter of this importance our Korean episode we must look closely at the bottom line the measure or degree of credibility, faith, belief, or trust that we place in the Eucharistic event.

To avoid confusion of mind let us frame our concern in the form of a question. Is this a genuine difference in the process of evaluating its trust worthiness as compared to assessing the credibility or trust that may be placed in messages claimed to be channeled through a seer?

No intermediary

In the matter of a Eucharistic event as above described, there is, first of all, no intermediary through whom messages are channeled to us. Suddenly and unexpectedly it happens within the context of the Sacrifice of the Mass, celebrated by validly ordained Catholic celebrants-priests or bishop(s)

By the Act of His Divine Will at the words of consecration pronounced by celebrant(s), Christ Jesus, son of the living god, becomes really and truly present under the species(outward appearances) of bread and wine. By a further Act of His same Divine Will Jesus can set aside external species in such a manner that His sacred Flesh and Blood are readily and directly perceived by our human senses.

He can effect this on the table of the altar or on the tongue of one who is a temple of the Holy Spirit. There seems to be no room for deceit or trickery here. And our adversary, Satan, dare not intrude himself into this scene.

Baptismal Faith

Prompted by the beautiful gift of our faith by our loving Father at baptism, all present are called upon to make swift judgment. Immediately, intuitively as they gaze upon the Flesh and Blood of the Lord Jesus, they cry out in the depth of their hearts like Thomas in the Upper Room: ?My Lord and My God.?

Furthermore, the faithful present feel tremendously privileged to Share with the celebrants this unique moment. And the celebrants themselves, overcome with awe, humbly realize that their intent and words are the human channel through which this Eucharistic miracle take place.

Further Reflections

An extraordinary phenomenon of this importance merits further reflection.

We ask ourselves: How can such a startling event take place? Is it staged through trickery, a sleight-of-hand act, some theatrical gimmick? Or does it occur through Divine Power?

As we examine the alternative it is clear that Julia Kim is a devout, honest and balanced Catholic mother for whom any deceit in such a sacred matter would be unthinkable; and how could she hold concealed a mouthful of ordinary blood to be released onto her tongue just after Holy Communion. Preposterous!

The Lord Jesus Himself performed this miracle, as far as I am concerned.

(Fr. Finn, from the London, diocese in Ontario, concelebrated the Mass of the Heart in Korea. He was the first to notice the miracle. From` Catholic Insight magazine.)