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My best friend is a Missionary Baptist that was brought up to DISLIKE Catholic everything very much....but her childbirth experience was going so badly that she started praying to MARY, and then everything went fine!!

Whoa! Wish I'd thought of that during childbirth!

(actually, thanx and a hat tip to the BVM, St. Gerard Majella, and everybody else. It couldn't have gone better if we had ordered it custom.)

My father had been raised Catholic but my mother was anti-Catholic. He kept his prayer books and his rosaries and he kept them in his night stand but nothing good was ever said about Catholicism. My brother was killed in a car wreck 2 days before his 17th birthday and though he didn't let my mother see the first thing my father went for was his rosary.

Fast forward 30 some years, my father had passed away and my son had all of the stuff my mother left behind when she moved. He was going to have a yard sale and he told me to come get what I wanted. By the end of the day I was exhausted and I saw a little box with my father's rosaries. I just told him don't sell this but I'm just exhausted and I can't go through anymore stuff.

Another year or so passed and one day I had this urge for my father's rosaries and I mean I wanted them right then. I ran down my son and I was almost hysterical that maybe he had thrown them away. He's like "Mom, calm down. They're in there." There were about 5 rosaries, most of them broken, a few chaplet bracelets, and some medals. I took them out and looked at them and figured out that there were supposed to be 10 small beads and a large one and my son fixed the broken ones and I put them back in the box and took them home, and didn't think about them again...until the day I got the copy of "How to say the Rosary"

So anyway, I slowly started saying the Rosary, then out of the blue a friend that I'd hardly seen for a few years called me one night. She said that she and some friends had started a prayer group and asked if I wanted to come. I only said yes because she was a friend and seemed to want me to and then she hesitated and added, uh, we say the rosary. I think I joined the Church about 3 years after that.

So does Mary open and close the womb too now?