Whoa! 🤯 This is incredible!
In a viral reel published by Parousia Media, Father Chris Alar of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception tells an amazing story of his experience while leading a Eucharistic procession on an Indian reservation in Canada.
Father Alar says he visited the Cree Indians in Canada and decided to process through the reservation with the Eucharist. He said he processed through all the roads, blessing about 1200 homes.
As he held the monstrance, Father Alar says the Indian reservation’s ringleader yelled at him, demanding he remove the Eucharist from the reservation.
The ringleader screamed, “Get that [blank, blank] out of here!” multiple times.
Father Alar says he “keeps on walking” with the monstrance and affirms he will not let go of the Eucharist.
After his third demand, the ringleader approached Father Alar and attempted to grab the monstrance. The ringleader then grabbed the monstrance, but immediately let it go because it burned his hands.
“He reaches up to grab it — and as he does, his hand is literally thrown off. And he screams,” Father Alar says. “It burned his hand completely, all the way across the palm.”
"He’s on his knees, and he looks up — and you can read his mind. He looked at that monstrance, and I guarantee you, the words going through his mind were, ‘What just happened?’
"All the women and children behind me fell to their knees and started worshiping."
Here is Father Chris Alar’s full story below:
Here is the full text of Father Chris Alar's story:
“I went to Canada, to the Cree Indians. No young men believed in the faith anymore. The only ones left were the old women and their grandchildren — not even the middle-aged.
“I take the monstrance, I put on my coat, and I decide I’m going to process it through the Indian reservation. I’m going to go up all the roads, and I’m going to bless houses. There are like 1,200 people who live on this reservation.
"So I go up, and I’m walking up the front, holding up the Eucharist. And this first Indian — the ringleader — yells, ‘Get that blank thing out of here!’
"I don’t pay any attention. I keep walking. Again, he yells, ‘Get that blank, blank thing out of here!’ I just keep walking very slowly. I’ve got all the women and children behind me.
"Then he comes down and says, ‘I told you, get that thing out of here!’ And he comes at me. I’m like, I’m not letting go. I’m not letting go.
"He reaches up to grab the monstrance. I’ve got it up. He reaches up to grab it — and as he does, his hand is literally thrown off. And he screams. It burned his hand completely, all the way across the palm.
"He’s on his knees, and he looks up — and you can read his mind. He looked at that monstrance, and I guarantee you, the words going through his mind were, ‘What just happened?’
"All the women and children behind me fell to their knees and started worshiping.
"Now, why do you think God performed that miracle? Because the doubt was starting to creep in again — the questions, the unbelief.
"This is why God sometimes allows Eucharistic miracles, like that one in Mexico or the one in Buenos Aires — because we’re doubting. We’re doubting.
"But you shouldn’t need a miracle. You should have faith that the miracle happens every day at the Mass, on that altar — and it’s turned into the Body and Blood of Christ.”