The leader of our bible study class told a moving story tonight. He told of his devoutly Catholic father-in-law who had a special devotion to Mary. He would scold his Father-in-law for his devotion and feed him passages about Jesus being the sole mediator. Normally the father-in-law would shrug it off, but finally he said he would reply with a story. The older man grew up in foster homes, normally Catholic, since the mother from whom he had been taken for her reglect of him was nominally a Catholic. The foster parents were not generous, and one in particul made him sleep in a cold attic. He did go to a Catholic school, however, and so being cold he would go early to school and go to the chapel to wait, since it was heated. There was a beutufuc statute of Mary, which he loved, He said, since I had no real mother, I will imagine I have a mother like her. At the base of the statue was the inscription: Doe what he tells you to do.” So he tried to do this. His answer to the son-in-law was this: why should I not love someone who pointed me to Christ? To this the son-in-law had no answer.
So why should people be so against someone who has never done anything excrept point to Christ, and say: Do what he tells you to do?
What a sweet story. I have told unhappy children (including my own!) that if they feel their mother has let them down or hurt them or made a mistake, they can always turn for comfort to the Blessed Virgin, who is the Best Mother in the Whole Wide World.