Have you ever asked God for a miracle? I have. Why not? We know and believe that God is all-powerful. When you are all-powerful, that means that it takes you no effort to do anything that you do. How difficult was it for God to create the universe? It was not difficult at all. It took no effort. How difficult to create my soul? Easy. How difficult is it for Him to work a miracle? He can work any miracle that He wants, at any time, no problem. Curing cancer, removing tumors, raising from the dead, curing blindness, whatever. Besides this, it seems that Our Lord wants us to ask for miracles. His word about having faith the grain of a mustard seed. “the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith. And the Lord said: If you had faith like to a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this mulberry tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou transplanted into the sea: and it would obey you” (Lk. 17:5-6). This seems to be a gratuitous miracle, without any purpose, and Our Lord is saying that they could ask for that. Our Lord working so many miracles without being asked. Today’s miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes happened, even though there was no request or faith. Two Masses of this week will give us Our Lord’s two greatest miracles: the raising from the dead of the son of the widow of Naim and the raising of Lazarus; in neither case was Our Lord asked to raise them from the dead. Meanwhile, there are many occasions in the Gospel when Our Lord immediately grants a request for Him to work a miracle. Most often, after He works the miracle, He praises the person for asking for the miracle and tells them it was because of their faith that He granted it. It seems that the manifestation of our faith by asking a miracle delights Him. Besides this, Our Lord encourages us to pray for whatever we need. His words are so strong and encouraging! “Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.” (Lk. 11:9-10)
