Lydia Segal

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The Story of Marcelino, the Boy Who Fed the Crucifix

Marcelino was an orphan. As a baby, he was left on the doorstep of a Franciscan monastery in 19th-century Spain. The monks raised him. He grew up running through the cloisters, barefoot, curious, and completely free.

The friars loved him, but they also worried about him. He was a boy with too many questions and too much energy for monastery walls. So they gave him rules. The biggest one: “Never go up to the attic.”

Of course, that was the only place he wanted to go.

One day, Marcelino disobeyed. He crept up the dusty stairs to the attic and found a huge, forgotten room. In the corner stood a life-size crucifix — Christ on the Cross, life-like, alone in the shadows.

Marcelino wasn’t scared. He talked to Him like a friend. “You look hungry up here all by yourself,” he said.

So the next day, he snuck bread from the monastery kitchen. He climbed back up and held it to the lips of the Crucifix. To his shock, the statue came to life, took the bread, and ate. Christ spoke to him. They became friends. Every day, Marcelino would steal food — bread, wine, fruit — and bring it to “the man on the Cross.”

Word got out in the monastery that food kept disappearing. The friars thought it was a thief. They followed Marcelino one day and saw him in the attic, sharing bread with the Crucifix… and the Crucifix was alive, smiling, talking to the child.

The monks fell to their knees.

Christ told Marcelino He would grant him one wish. Marcelino, with all the simplicity of a child, said, “I want to see my mother.”

That night, Christ took him. Marcelino died in his sleep with peace on his face, as if he’d simply gone to meet his mother.

It’s not about an incorrupt body or a medical healing. It’s the miracle of faith without cynicism. A child believed Jesus was really present, really hungry for love, really listening. And because he acted on it — with bread and wine, the same elements of the Eucharist — heaven answered.

The book became a bestseller, and the 1955 film won awards worldwide because people were starved for that kind of trust again after WWII.

[Lydia Segal @LydiaSegal]

@JDharmaQuotes Sounds like what Tulku Thondup Rinpoche would say.

[Just Dharma Quotes @JDharmaQuotes]

As long as sentient beings have merit ~ Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
https://t.co/B1H8Wzyyio

#DzongsarKhyentseRinpoche #teachings #sentientbeings #blessing

[Lydia Segal @LydiaSegal]

@jyotishiiphilip Source? Or perhaps your own teaching?

[Monk Mindset @monkmindsets]

You don’t need motivation. You need a schedule.

It's why monks have lived peaceful and productive lives for 2,000 years.

Here's how to design your own monk schedule 🧵

[Buddhist Quotes @BuddhaQuotes]

Do not grieve monks. If I were to live for an eon, our association would still come to an end. A meeting without a separation can never be.

[Lydia Segal @LydiaSegal]

@ThoNg676733 So beautiful!

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Lie on your child’s lap and watch their reaction 🥰

[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

I've never seen the inside of my ears.

But I've heard good things.

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

A child's smile can melt away all your stress.

[𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎 ♱🇻🇦 @BillArnoldTeach]

The greatest distance in the spiritual life

is the space between “my will”

and “Thy will.”

[Lydia Segal @LydiaSegal]

@eeajjo Never heard of her or her case until now. But, as usual, I so appreciate your humor! "there is approximately 0.000000001% overlap in Markéta and Jannik’s cases".... LOL.

[𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎 ♱🇻🇦 @BillArnoldTeach]

If your happiness depends entirely on something death can take away, your happiness is standing on borrowed time.

That is why God must be first.

[Víctor M. | HipoteLab @Hipotelab]

8. Tus límites molestarán a las personas que se beneficiaron de que no tuvieras ninguno.

El momento en que empieces a decir no, a establecer límites y a proteger tu paz—

Ciertas personas te llamarán egoísta, frío o "cambiado".

Bien. Eso significa que está funcionando.

[St. Padre Pio Quotes @PadrepioSaint]

• St. Padre Pio says:

"Give to God the remaining years of your life ....... Beg Jesus to use them in the kind of life that is pleasing to Him."

[Des Bons Mots, Mal Hechos @GwawrYMeirwon]

@FischerKing64 "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

[Zunaira Ai @ZunairaAi]

Airlines have 2 fares for every flight.

The official price they show to everyone.
And the hidden price that almost nobody finds.

Same day.
Same plane.
€900 flight, paid €200, a difference of €700.

These are the 7 prompts to find the lowest prices 👇

(save this thread before it disappears)

[Lydia Segal @LydiaSegal]

@DrEliDavid LOL!

[Lydia Segal @LydiaSegal]

@jyotishiiphilip Yes, makes sense. May be the translation should be "empty" rather than "destroy."

[Lydia Segal @LydiaSegal]

@BuddhaQuotes Source?