The Deacon's Bench
It was a brazen, and blasphemous crime. A Catholic community in northern New Mexico is beside itself after a man burst into the adoration chapel at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, and stole something very precious to them.
The priest at Sacred Heart told News 13 this is the highest form of desecration he’s seen. He made a plea to the burglar Tuesday afternoon before police arrested the suspect.
It’s meant for prayer, a place of peace, open 24/7. So, when a man walked into the adoration chapel at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Española on Monday afternoon, the two people in there praying couldn’t believe what he did.
“There is something so precious to us as Catholics that he has taken, and that is the Eucharist,” explained Father Vitus Ezeiruaku, of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
The suspect police later identified as Isaac Morfin, made a b-line for the monstrance, which holds the Eucharist, then ran out the door, dropping part of it in the parking lot.
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