You know you're Catholic when...

...stories like this from the Scranton Times Tribune make you shudder:

Carbondale Church descrated by theft

A golden container and the hosts for Holy Communion inside it were stolen during an overnight break-in Tuesday at St. Rose of Lima Church in Carbondale.

Called the ciborium, it was the only thing taken.

One has to hope that the thief a) only wanted the gold; b) had no idea that he/she was committing a huge act of sacrilege; and c) comes to repentance.

However,

Monsignor David L. Tressler, the church's pastor, described the Catholic community as stunned and hurt. There is a "real sense of violation," and it is all the more disheartening because the thief targeted the hosts, which are at the heart of the religion's identity, he said.

There were certainly more valuable items. "Once they were in the church, they could've had a field day," Monsignor Tressler said.

So it's very well possible that what happened at St. Rose of Lima wasn't merely a theft, but a very deliberate act by a person or persons who knew Who the ciborium held.

There's a reason satanists celebrate black masses and not twisted versions of other types of worship: the Eucharist is truly the Body and Blood of Christ, and even the demons believe and tremble.

Mary Most Holy, Mother of the Eucharist, pray for us sinners.