Greetings my dear reader friends of the great read.cash family. Today I bring you a religious reading, it’s not with the purpose of creating diatribes or seeking disputes. I’m very clear about what I want and what I’m learning with the help of the Lord.
It so happens that one day Father Francis was speaking in the pulpit and was telling the parishioners about a testimony.
A little boy, just 9 years old, had found his Catholic friends praying a prayer to the mother of Jesus, which he thought was very beautiful. He said it so many times until he learned it.
Then one day he told his mother “Mommy, Mommy, I have learned a beautiful prayer and I want to say it to you” The mother asked him to recite it and the boy said the Hail Mary.
The mother, who was a Protestant, told her son never again to say this prayer to her because it was a lie of the Catholic religion that worshipped a woman without any importance, that she was the same as any other woman and that the Catholics invented it. The mother told the boy, "Here, read the bible and study the word better and it will be much better than what you are doing."
The child was saddened but listened to his mother, then one day the boy found in the bible the annunciation of the Angel Gabriel to Mary, with the same prayer to the Virgin Mary, and he was amazed.
He said again to his mother "Mommy, I found in the bible the prayer that says full of grace, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women why do you say that it’s superstitious?” The mother did not answer.
Then, as he continued reading over time he came across Elizabeth's salutation to Mary and the Magnificat where Mary points out that "from now on all generations will call me blessed." The boy decided to continue reading and learning and told his mother nothing more.
One morning the boy's mother was arguing with other members of the household and said that Mary was just a woman who had only begotten Jesus and that she was of no importance, to which the boy intervened and told everyone in his loud voice.
"Mary is not just any woman, she is full of grace and blessed, she is the mother of Jesus and therefore the mother of God and she is not just any person full of sin. She is the greatest dignity to which one can aspire, she is the foundation of the Christian religion."
The boy's mother was indignant at his words and rebuked him for fear that he would become a Catholic.
Over the years the boy continued to learn and study in the Catholic religion and once he goes to visit his older sister, she rejected him and told him that she would first pierce her son's chest with a dagger before she would accept the Catholic religion, adding that she despised him for being Catholic.
Over the years the sister had her son in the hospital with a death diagnosis and her brother visited her, he asked her for a favor and said.
"Sister do you want to save the life of your son, my nephew?"
His sister, a mother, tearfully answered yes, that she would do anything to save her son’s life.
Then he said, "Pray with me the Hail Mary and if your son is saved, promise me that you will study the doctrine of the Catholic Church".
His sister could only agree with tears, deciding to pray with her sibling.
Her son was miraculously saved and the woman complied, she studied the doctrine of Catholicism and eventually she and her entire family were converted.
Her brother, Father Francis, is today the one who as a priest of the church tells his own testimony of how his prostentant family accepted the Catholic Church by studying its doctrine.
I thought it was a nice story to tell, of course, I don’t want to offend anyone or to create disputes. Please, if you disagree with my post please don’t create discord. It’s only my way of expressing my great love for Mary, the mother of my Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you, I loved the story. I am thinking if I have read it before or heard it, but regardless, I will never tire of the story and believing how powerful the intercession of Mama Mary is. May you, and your son, be blessed abundantly this Christmas!