Religion is an important part of life because it helps us maintain our peaceful mind and gives meaning to much of what we do. Although we discuss religion every day, not many people understand and can define religion. Is religion something that exists in our everyday life or is it something pure that follows a certain traditional principle of practice? In “Everyday Miracles,” by Robert Orsi, the problem of how to define religion is carefully examined. At St. Lucy in the Bronx, there is a spring in a grotto that people consider to be miraculously efficacious. People from different locations and backgrounds come to the spring with the expectation that the precious water of the spring can help relieve them of physical distresses. They believe the water is a kind of “blessing” for them although everyone knows exactly where it comes from. “It’s city water-it comes from the reservoir, I guess,” one woman tells Orsi (5). Despite that fact, people at St. Lucy still believe and look at the water as a holy and powerful thing. It is a way of religious practice in these people’s lives. In contrast, students in Orsi’s urban religion class dismiss what happens at St. Lucy as a religious practice. The students are limited in their way of defining religion. In their mind, “Religion is private and interior, not shamelessly public, mystical, not ritualistic, intellectually consistent and reasonable, not ambivalently and contradictory” (6). It is a sacred subject that cannot be presented in things, a concept that they have heard and followed since the day they were born. The water at St. Lucy is considered to be “earthy and quotidian” (6) in their opinion because it comes from the city aqueduct and is associated with a woman in white appeared to a girl named Bernadette “an invisible being directed an ignorant child toward a hundred year ago” (6). In order to argue against the students’ opinion, Orsi challenged them to re