re: Who believes in miracles?

Remember that time they almost canceled Christmas because of fog?……..

But really yes I do.

If you need one, you better start believing.

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Kearse devised, for the first time ever, a set of control experiments. He obtained unconsecrated communion wafers and processed them according to the same conditions described above. He left them in a dusty, dark corner for several days and then stored them in water at ambient temperature and humidity for 7-10 days. Approximately 15 percent of the control wafers formed a gelatinous red substance on the surface, like the photos from the Eucharistic miracle reports

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It seems remarkable that all five test for the same, rare blood type. But there is a problem: the A and B antigens are not unique to humans. Since the 1960s, biologists have known that bacteria cells also have A and B antigens on their surfaces. Hence, if a sample is contaminated with bacteria, even if it contains no blood at all, it could still show a type AB blood result in this test.

Yet, without anyone ever checking for bacteria as the explanation, the claim about the blood type is often repeated as miraculous.

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Crisis Magazine

That doesn't explain the confirmed miracles. Those were not proven to be bacteria. Your example is like disproving me saying my marble is green by showing me that you have a blue marble. My claim isn't that your marble is green, it's that mine is. How did a piece of bread develop heart tissue?

Writeup about the one in Poland

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Another very interesting
event observed consists in that the substance found on
the corporal, although slightly changed after being
removed from the water (it had simply dried) a couple
of years ago, it did not change its appearance despite
having been neither stabilized nor preserved at a
particular temperature. “This signifies that if the miracle were due to a bacterium, the material would have
disintegrated, crumbled and would have changed
appearance. Any microbial culture, even placed on the
cleanest possible material, after a single week appears
completely different” added Professor Sulkowski.

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And yet, several people, who not only have
never analyzed the material but they had
neither seen it with their own eyes, have
affirmed that the red color of the Host is due
to prodigiosin, a red pigment produced by the bacterium Serratia marcescens. “Obviously, this is absurd”
affirmed the specialists of Bialystok, also because the
material observed corresponds to cardiac muscle and
not to a bacterium.

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It was a sloppy investigation by people invested in it being divine. From reddit and someone who translated a polish report on it...

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investigation that mentions the informal character of the examination that was made on the sample. It confirmed that it was LIKELY a mammal heart muscle but can't prove whether it came from a human or an animal. Another Medical Facility approached the Archbishop offering DNA testing of the samples but he replied that "Sanctity must be respected"

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Then the University distanced itself from the findings...

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it's a very official disclaimer that the University officials cut any ties with the results of the examination and would like to make it clear it's not their scientifically backed expertise. It was done as an informal side project of two of their employees and since they haven't documented any results the tests can't be replicated or peer reviewed

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The university spokesman who is a practicing Catholic notes that they were not allowed to perform more definitive tests and that the 2 profs "they are characterized by an emotional approach to faith"

In other words, no real research occurred or was allowed as a follow up. No second opinions were allowed.

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From reddit

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You question the impartiality of a Catholic PhD but turn to reddit for your rebuttal. I'm sure if I kept going, you'd just say you don't trust the nun and priest who found it. There's no changing a closed mind.

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You question the impartiality of a Catholic PhD but turn to reddit for your rebuttal

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The reddit post had a link to a report on the event and a link to the university's statement on it. They were both in Polish. I put paragraphs into a translator that confirmed the summary given by the poster. Shoddy research by those who are biased to believe
with no true rigor or chance at a second opinion was the jist of both.

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you don't trust the nun and priest who found it

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How so? They sent it to the "researchers" so they didn't trust themselves at first either.

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There's no changing a closed mind

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Pot, is that you?

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Shoddy research by those who are biased to believe

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Reporting their findings negatively effected their reputations and caused them to be reprimanded by their university. They had every reason to not submit their findings. Catholics don't need Eucharistic miracles to prove anything. Despite the surrounding controversy, they stuck by their objective findings.

If you seriously need one, you'll most likely find it on your knees in prayer and through fasting. Ask God in prayer to give you your need, and to honor your sacrifice in fasting. Give up one meal a day for 7 days and pray daily. Have faith he will hear your prayers and answer them.

God is more than able to meet your needs. You just have to reach out to him first. He requires you to make the first move towards him. Ask and ye shall receive. Knock and it shall be opened unto you.

God is still in the prayer answering business and performing miracles. I know because I received mine this way.