Amid the euphoria surrounding the canonization of Carlo Acutis, Mexican priest Ángel Espinosa de los Monteros invites us to look beyond spectacular miracles: “The true wonder lies in the will that gives itself day after day to the service of others.”

The recent canonization of the young Italian has once again placed the topic of miracles at the center of Catholic debate. Saint Francis and his stigmata, Padre Pio with his gift of reading souls and bilocation, the Curé of Ars and his healings… all are impressive examples. However, Espinosa de los Monteros poses a provocative question: what is more meritorious, someone touching a shoulder and cancer disappearing, or a priest spending 18 hours sitting in a confessional listening to “all sorts of nonsense”?

“Who can endure that every day?” he asks. “One day it’s 12 hours, another 10, another 13… from there to Mass, to the cemetery, to a funeral, to a First Communion, baptisms, weddings. And in the middle of it all, sitting, listening.” For him, that is the true miracle: the willingness to offer oneself without expecting recognition.

Mother Teresa: The Miracle of Perseverance. The priest recalls his visit to Calcutta during Mother Teresa’s canonization. “I entered a ward with 80 beds of dying people. Nuns were feeding them rice, changing diapers, and cleaning their mouths. I want a job to earn $10,000 and have a new car… and they were sitting in chairs, with the head of a stranger in their laps.”

In another home, she saw 40 children with severe disabilities. “Some can’t walk, others can’t see, they’re incontinent. And the nuns are there all day: injections, pills, food. Isn’t that a greater miracle than touching and healing?”

A blessing and a baby.  Espinosa recounts a personal case: a couple in their 30s, who hadn’t had children in ten years, asked him for a blessing. “I blessed them, I told them to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. A year later, I saw them receiving communion… with a baby in their arms. ‘Father, you blessed us and here is Pepito’.”

He quickly clarifies: “Not everyone should come to my parish for training. I give blessings every day, like any priest. God acts according to the faith of the one who asks.”

The Unseen Miracles:  The priest lists Eucharistic miracles—Orvieto, Lanciano, Cascia—and apparitions—Guadalupe, Fatima, Medjugorje. “There are 100, 140, 200… but who saw them? The witnesses have already died, or it’s one word against another.”

To those who say, “I don’t believe because I don’t see,” he responds: “You don’t believe because you haven’t opened your eyes. The Church is a miracle: three fishermen, a tax collector, a traitor… and 2,000 years later it is all over the world, martyred, persecuted, holy, and sinful.”

The daily miracle: “Every day I transform bread and wine into Body and Blood. It never becomes visible flesh to me, but I know it happens. It involves faith.”

Millions of Catholics, he says, heal lives without touching them: hospitals, schools, basic food baskets, confessions. “I forgive your sins in the name of Jesus. That is a miracle.”

A marriage that lasts 60 years, an act of love that generates life in nine months, a successful operation that the doctor does not explain… “God works miracles with doctors, lawyers, politicians, lay people.”

The miracle is already here.  “Saint Thomas was allowed to put his fingers in. We are not. Jesus tells us: ‘The miracle is already here, find it’”.

He asks that the message be shared: “Let us do all the good we can. May God always bless you.”