Many things are referred to as “miracles” but a true miracle is a sign of divine intervention, when God enters into our world and directly participates in our lives in an extraordinary way.
While God is involved with all things that occur or exist naturally, his existence is even more apparent when He causes things to happen in an unnatural way.
The Old and New Testaments of the Bible refer to signs and wonders, miraculous events where God demonstrates his power and brings people to believe in Him.
God continues to work in special ways, performing miracles in the world today. They should not be explained away without keeping an open mind and following the evidence wherever it might lead.
A deeper experience of God himself:
Amazing signs pointing to another dimension:
And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.” Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in Him.
John 2: 9-11
So that you may believe:
Miracles accompanied preaching in the early Church:
The signs worked by Jesus attest that the Father has sent Him. They invite belief in Him. To those who turn to Him in faith, He grants what they ask. So miracles strengthen faith in the One who does his Father’s works; they bear witness that He is the Son of God. But his miracles can also be occasions for “offence”; they are not intended to satisfy people’s curiosity or desire for magic. Despite his evident miracles some people reject Jesus; He is even accused of acting by the power of demons.
Catechism of the Catholic Church 548
Miracles are not against the natural order:
God can surpass the laws of nature that He created:
Miracles are signs of Jesus’ authority over nature:
However, in order that the “obedience” of our faith should be “consonant with reason”, God has willed that to the internal aids of the Holy Spirit there should be joined external proofs of his revelation, namely: divine facts, especially miracles and prophecies which, because they clearly show forth the omnipotence and infinite knowledge of God, are most certain signs of a divine revelation, and are suited to the intelligence of all. Wherefore, not only Moses and the prophets, but especially Christ the Lord Himself, produced many genuine miracles and prophecies; and we read concerning the apostles: “But they going forth preached everywhere: the Lord working withal and confirming the word with signs that followed”.
Pope Pius IX, Dei Filius, 24 April 1870
Miracles are not coincidences:
Belief in miracles is reasonable:
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