Keira Allen Anderson

What is a miracle?

Many people have different opinions as to what a miracle is for example nature. People would say that nature is a miracle because although you can explain how plants grow, and what hey are made up of no one can make a plant without actually having a seed from a plant. Plants are a part of humans’ life cycle, they help us to breathe, and we use them, as a source for medicine and many other things personally I don’t believe that anyone can ever explain to me how that can be.

I asked some people what they thought a miracle was and a lot of people said that they thought the birth of a baby was a miracle. Although we all know how babies are made, when someone actually has a child of their own it seems like a miracle. If you think about a little egg, growing and growing in the mothers womb for nine months and in that space of time they develop fingers, eyes a nose and all the organs of the body to become an actual human being that is a wonderful and miraculous event.

*People also believe that inventions or developments in science are miracles because things that were impossible a few years ago are now apart of our daily lives. Things like mobile phones and computers were probably never even dreamt of by people hundreds of years ago but today they are a major part in our lives. *Although they are amazing inventions they only seem like miracles because we do not fully understand them. To the person that invented them or to a heart surgeon they are just simple.

Today there are still some people who are thought to be miracle workers who God works through. Padre Pio is an example of a miracle worker.

Padre Pio was born on May 25, 1887. He was baptised Francis. Even as a child he had extraordinary gifts. While his brothers and sisters played, he prayed.

When he was a teenager he received a present of chestnuts wrapped in a bag. He returned the bag to woman who sent it to him. The woman saved the bag, she thought it might be worth something in the future. One day the woman was in her barn when a spark ignited powder and there was a terrible explosion. She was in great pain, and bleeding from a serious wound. She remembered the bag and placed it on the wound. She was instantly cured. This was the first miracle God performed through Padre Pio, he was 13 years old. At the age of 15 Padre Pio entered the Capuchins despite the fact that he was in bad health. One day he heard a voice from the tabernacle: "You will be scourged, crown with thorns and nailed to the cross like St. Francis." In 1910 Padre Pio was ordained a priest. On September 20, 1918 he received the invisible wounds of Christ.

.He was praying in front of a crucifix when a beautiful light shone from the tabernacle. Christ as a radiant young man moved towards Padre Pio. Rays of light from Our Savior's wounds transferred themselves to Padre Pio. The friars found him on the floor and took him to his room. They became aware of the large wounds he had in his hands and feet as well as the left side of his chest. From that time on the wounds never changed, and never stopped bleeding. The news of this awesome wonder spread all over the world. He was examined by the scientists over and over. They could not explain the wounds which neither healed nor expanded.

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One woman asked him, "Father Pio, do they ache?" He replied, "Just as though you took a nail, drove it into the hand and turned it round. Of the wounds Padre Pio said, "These are flames of Divine love: I suffer gladly." He, like Christ, suffered for the conversion of sinners.

When Padre Pio said Mass he took off his woolen gloves. He often went in and out of ecstasy. He would weep and sob. There was a special handkerchief placed on the altar called a tear cloth. During the consecration his body shook with pain. Blood trickled down from ...

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