About the Book
The Jesus Enigma: Breaking Bread, Breaking ScienceA Mystery That Bridges Faith, Science, and the UnknownImagine Mia and Ethan, two teens in a dim library, unraveling a mystery. Mia, 16, an agnostic puzzle-solver with a bouncing ponytail, and Ethan, 17, a sarcastic atheist science buff, start a school project on relics. A YouTube video about a bleeding communion host shifts their focus to Eucharistic miracles-bread turning to flesh, the Shroud of Turin's odd image, and the Sudarium's bloodstains. Debating hoaxes versus miracles, their skepticism wavers as evidence grows. Is this real?
The Jesus Enigma: Breaking Bread, Breaking Science blends this YA mystery with fact, exploring the Eucharist's secrets. Through Mia and Ethan's journey, readers question belief, rooted in real events and science that baffle experts.
As author A. Capito, I share my story. Raised Catholic-baptized, schooled, an altar boy at St. Patrick's in Melbourne-I drifted as a lapsed Catholic through university, work, and family. A mid-50s life shock spurred me to seek life's meaning. Researching Jesus' death, resurrection, and the church's 2 billion-strong growth, I found logic in faith, aided by Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ. Eucharistic miracles, unknown to me until my mid-60s via Saint Carlo Acutis' 2025 canonization, intrigued me. Carlo, a tech-savvy teen dead at 15, cataloged 150+ miracles, calling the Eucharist "my highway to heaven." His site, tied to his September 7, 2025, sainthood, inspired my probe: If only one's true, it confirms Jesus' John 6:51-53 promise, "Whoever eats this bread will live forever."
This matters hugely. Science struggles with life's origin-Darwin's evolution starts with simple forms, but the 1952 Miller-Urey experiment only made amino acids. Experts like Dr. James Tour and Dr. Stephen C. Meyer note cells' complexity defies lab creation. If dead bread becomes living tissue, it suggests supernatural design. For faith, Jesus' Last Supper (Luke 22:19-20) command, "Do this in remembrance of me," gains power if miracles prove the bread His body. This ties to His call to eat His body in order to be transformed and reach the kingdom of heaven, as Carlo believed.
For lapsed Catholics, skeptics, seekers, or atheists-especially those baptized with communion access-it's a curiosity spark. Mia and Ethan's tale-Lanciano (750 AD), Buenos Aires (1996), Tixtla (2006), Sokolka (2008), Shroud, Sudarium-mirrors this, mixing library chats and church visits. No preaching, just facts.
Appendices offer details, sources, and references per chapter for your exploration. For lapsed Catholics, it's a return nudge; for others, a faith-science bridge. If just one of these miracles were true, it reshapes science and faith.
Join Mia and Ethan-discover the Enigma that is Jesus!
