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James Tissot (1836-1902), “The Road to Emmaus” (photo: Public Domain)

By Patti Maguire Armstrong,

Patti Maguire Armstrong Patti (Maguire) Armstrong is an award-winning journalist and was managing editor and co-author of the bestselling Amazing Grace Series. …

 

‘And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight.’ (Luke 24:30-31)

Patti Maguire Armstrong“What a strange feeling it is to be looking at what by all appearances is a piece of bread in a little glass compartment in the center of a very simple gold monstrance and feel like you are the one being stared at.”

Emily Bleicher shared this experience with the Register about her witness to the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist when she was a Protestant. Through a moment of grace, she recognized Jesus beyond her own understanding.

I met Emily last summer at a church event. She had arrived in town the week earlier to attend the University of Mary for graduate school. Emily calls herself an “accidental Catholic” as the result of an encounter she had with Jesus when a friend invited her to adoration. …

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