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Title: A Few thoughts on Mary and the Great Cloud of Witn


JustaServant - March 28, 2008 10:07 AM (GMT)
http://thetrailhome.blogspot.com/2008/03/f...loud-of_27.html

Roy_Edw - March 29, 2008 02:00 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (JustaServant @ Mar 28 2008, 05:07 AM)
http://thetrailhome.blogspot.com/2008/03/f...loud-of_27.html

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When God touched my heart and the wall of anti-Catholicism was demolished, praying the Hail Mary was the first act I performed.
I remember it vividly. My whole world was shaken. In a moment of time God ‘mugged me from behind’ and the truth of the Catholic Church shown like a light in darkness. When I got home that night, I went into my bedroom alone and closed the door. That night I did something that I hadn’t done in two decades. I prayed the Lord’s Prayer and the Hail Mary.
The Lord’s Prayer was easy, that I had done many times before. I was scared to death to pray the Hail Mary. It was like kissing my wife for the first time. It was something I wanted to do and years of bigotry were overcome. After I was done, the Holy Spirit filled me with a joy I cannot describe.
A weight had been lifted from my shoulders. I felt at peace for the first time in many years.


Jim,

This was very nicely stated as was your explanation that we do not "worship" Mary. We do pray for her to intercede with her son for us in our prayers. I too had a profound experience in my early days of praying the Rosary, and I was not Catholic at that time. I had come back to Our Lord and was still traveling in the church I grew up in, the Episcopal Church. I had met a Benedictine monk in an Anglican church of all places an he taught me the basics of praying the Rosary. Don't ask why he and I were there at the same time, it was a God thing!

But I was in my bedroom on my knees praying the Rosary when I just burst into tears in deep grief. I didn't know why and Our Lord quietly spoke to me that I was feeling the grief Mary felt for her son when He was on the cross. I have never forgotten that experience.

In Him,

Roy




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