Many people claim that miracles have ceased in our generation, and that all we have left are historical accounts of what happened in the past when God worked wonders in the lives of His chosen people, and in the lives of the apostles and early Christians.

But is that true? Miracles are being performed every day before our very eyes if we have eyes to see.

The miracle performed by Jesus when He filled the nets of the Apostles with an abundance of fish, is a prelude to the miracles the very same Apostles would later perform as fishers of men.

What critics of miracles fail to understand is that the scriptures are a record of how miracles can happen in our own lives, and how God can miraculously work with His people even in this present time.

The fact that God created the earth is in itself a great miracle. The way He created the oceans and the seas, the heaven and the earth, and everything that inhibits them is a miracle.

These miracles of nature are forever happening before our eyes. The rising of the Sun, the chirping of birds, the birth of new born babies; all of them are miracles that are still happening around us. Indeed, the very fact that you are able to read these words is a miracle in itself. Do you realize what amount of precision it takes for your eyes and brain to process the vast amount of information required for you to understand these words? These daily miracles that we are inclined to take for granted, perhaps, are called natural miracles.

The greatest miracles of all are the miracles of faith.

We need to understand that the most life-giving miracle is Salvation. God loves you so much that He would have sent His son to die for you even if you were the last human on earth. When Jesus died for you on the Cross, He rescued you from sin and purchased the right for your redemption. This is a wondrous miracle-to die to sin and rise to new life in Christ. People who acknowledge and respond to this miracle, as the Apostles did, can do great things. They can overcome all kinds of obstacles like Francis of Assisi, Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, and good people you know. They can perform great works.

Jesus has no eyes but your eyes; no ears but your ears; no hands but your hands; no mind but your mind; and no heart but your heart to continue His miracle of Salvation on earth. He has left it up to you to do what He did, and “even greater things,” if you just trust Him and let Him into your life. This is how we become “fishers of men.”

This new category of blog will recount stories of faith or “little miracles” in the lives of people that have made an important difference in their lives. Tomorrow’s blog will offer the first of our series of little miracles which I hope you will enjoy.

In addition, if any of our readers have important spiritual experiences they would like to share with us, please forward them to us using the contact form provided in this website.

Fr. Hugh Duffy