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Excerpt from Life, Virtues, and Miracles of St. Gerard Majella, Lay-Brother of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
St. Augustine, that sublime genius, had said long before: All nature is full of miracles. We are not astonished at them, because we are used to seeing them; their repetition makes them familiar to our eyes. Behold why God has re served to Himself others out of the course of nature, that they may strike us by their novelty.'3 (de Civit. Dei, L. X.) But for the Christian, the possibility of a miracle is not a question; it is a point of Faith which he professes every day when he says: I believe in God, the Father Almighty, and which springs from these words of the Gospel: Nothing is impossible to God (luke I, and from these others: He that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do, and greater than these shall he do. (john XIV, But is it, indeed, certain that God has at times performed miracles?
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