How often do miracles occur?

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vz71 said:
Thank you for a most uplifting thread.
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It is our contributors who should be thanked - with their overwhelming support (90%) for the view that miracles occur very frequently. :clapping:
 
tonyrey said:
It is our contributors who should be thanked - with their overwhelming support (90%) for the view that miracles occur very frequently. :clapping:
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LOL we could not be contributing had you not started the thread. 😃 :clapping:
 
tonyrey said:
A suspension of the laws of nature.
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This seems like a common sense definition, but I think it will cause problems 😦

Many of the materialistic mindset will merely say that “it’s just a new natural law that we haven’t yet discovered”, or “it’s not been extensively examined.” You know how that goes.

Certainly you must be aware that Science Explains Everything. (Or will eventually.) :rolleyes:

If only those with so much faith in science would have faith in God.
 
Hokomai said:
Relating this to miracles, so as not to derail the thread: I try not to believe in anything, but to accept as real only those things which can be demonstrated. these are facts. I have never seen anything approaching the demonstration of a miracle - that is something which could not have happened without the intervention of forces beyond the natural world. i would accept as a miracle something like an amputated arm growing back, or a perfectly preserved corpse that had been in a fast-flowing river for a century. But I do not accept things which can and do happen in the normal course of events, such as spontaneous remission of cancer, or a fine day for the Church fair. I also understand coincidence, and that it is in their nature to happen. Coincidence is the best explanation for many claimed miracles. Outside the miracles and religion field, you might say that I ‘believe’ in parliamentary democracy. But i do not say it that way. I say I have concluded that democracy is a more robust protection for people and their freedoms than other systems.
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So it was a coincidence that a group of children hallucinated their vision of Mary, our Beloved Mother, who told them when to expect the miracle of the sun at Fatima? And then the actual miracle?

You should read St. Teresa of Avila’s Interior Mansions, and come back to us.

Not to mention that there are no facts that can demonstrate the beginning of the world, and chances are that we’re not the result of some chemical process. That would be one hell of a chemical process. 🤷
 
ricmat said:
A suspension of the laws of nature.
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The only new law that could be established for events which occur in many different circumstances and have only thing in common is that they protect living beings from injury and death! It would have to be a law based on love rather than indifferent processes…🙂
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Anathama_Sit said:
It is our contributors who should be thanked - with their overwhelming support (90%) for the view that miracles occur very frequently.
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I started the thread because there are some Catholics on this forum who believe miracles are very rare and interfere unnecessarily with the laws of nature! So they are the ones to be thanked… although I don’t think all those who have been healed would agree with their scepticism… 😉

Pope Benedict and all the bishops, priests, nuns and lay pilgrims to Lourdes must be seriously misguided if miraculous cures never or very rarely occur…
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Curious_Seed said:
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More or less, as often as we notice.

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There must have been many that could not be noticed because scientists could not keep track of the precise extent of every natural disaster throughout history and throughout the world…
 
shoe said:
Very frequently. I think that the birth of a newborn baby or a soul that turns to Christ, or returns to Him, are good examples of miracles that occur many times during each day.
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👍 Probably there are far more invisible miracles than visible ones…
 
I voted “never” because I haven’t found any reasonable evidence that miracles do happen, yet would expect to have found some evidence if miracles do in fact happen.
 
I’m not quite sure of the original poster’s intent but I’m thinking they may not be thinking of transubstantion, conception, the birth of a child, life itself, etc. We know transubstatiation is a miracle as well as the others things mentioned. Those things we accept by faith as a Catholic. To those outside the faith who don’t believe in transubstatiation or accept the birth of a child, but just view it as a normal process of life and nothing special, what about those events? What about those visually unexplainably supernatural events that have to be questioned by the non-believer or the doubter that there is no logical explaination but to accept the divine intervention of God.
 
tonyrey said:
I started the thread because there are some Catholics on this forum who believe miracles are very rare and interfere unnecessarily with the laws of nature! So they are the ones to be thanked… although I don’t think all those who have been healed would agree with their scepticism… 😉

Pope Benedict and all the bishops, priests, nuns and lay pilgrims to Lourdes must be seriously misguided if miraculous cures never or very rarely occur…
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OH and if miracles never do occur, how in the world did the Church declare all the Saints to be saints, when miracles are necessary for part of canonization? 😃

[NOTE: I believe in miracles but am trying to drive a point home.]
 
Anathama_Sit said:
OH and if miracles never do occur, how in the world did the Church declare all the Saints to be saints, when miracles are necessary for part of canonization? 😃

[NOTE: I believe in miracles but am trying to drive a point home.]
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How can anyone who believes in a loving Father think He never protects His children against misfortune? Why permit suffering if it can be prevented without making it obvious that He exists?
 
God isn’t complacent within his work, neither is the Son nor the Spirit. God is always calling people to faith and he uses the miraculous in some instances to do this. I’ve witnessed many miracles within my life–things that are not ordinary to the natural. I know people who have witnessed miracles in their lives (even two women who got a visit from the Virgin Mary). And I believe in them because I have witnessed them in my own life. If you witness a miracle in your own life you will believe it in the lives of others; but if you don’t witness a miracle in your own life you are unlikely to believe in miracles at all.
 
tonyrey said:
There must have been many that could not be noticed because scientists could not keep track of the precise extent of every natural disaster throughout history and throughout the world…
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👍

Cannot assign many events to nothing noticed: to do so, in truth, would indeed be miraculous.

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tonyrey said:
Would you like to give us more details? 🙂
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It happened in Portugal, in Sao Miguel on the Feast of Christ of Miracles. It involved weather that completely changed as Christ(statue of miracles) was presented to the faithful/ prayers(my mother also seen it). Anyways Portugal (when I was there) are completed filled with the faithful, and it is so different there - I can’t explain it(maybe that’s what heaven would be like). The last time I was there, was September 11, 2011; yes when that awful tragedy happened). My flight was scheduled to arrive at Toronto at 9:00 am but had to do a quick landing at a Montreal airport - I was so scared we had a rocky landing, and no one knew what was going on. Most of my life altering experiences happened while or leaving Portugal. You can google Sao Migue(Christ of miracles) if you want, it will tell give you a description of that festival. I don’t know how Sao Miguel is now but back then, was amazing.
 
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