A friend shared this story with me, years ago. It isn't one you easily forget especially with many faiths being challenged today.
I once read of a Chinese girl in Communist China who hid in a church and watched soldiers ransack the tabernacle and spill the Hosts on the floor. The guards left but she stayed in hiding, picking up a Host, one a day with her tongue, not realizing she could have consumed all the Hosts because of the profanation. She returned every day and picked up one Host with her tongue out of her total respect for the Eucharist.
On the last day, being the last Host, as soon as she consumed it, she was shot by a guard who had followed her into the church. Angels of the Holy Eucharist watching over us from heaven!
(The friend who shared this with me passed away several years ago so if you have an extra prayer today for Father Richard, that would be great.)
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