I once owned a book that a collection of beautiful accounts of Mary’s intercession. I have since lost the book unfortunately, but remember one of my favorite stories; it goes...
There was once a family who had the habit of saying “Hail Mary’ upon entering their house and leaving their house. This family owned a parrot of some sort, who then learned the prayer. One day, a bird of prey came in and swooped the bird up and in its talons took off. The parrot in a panic yelled “Hail Mary Hail Mary” and the bird of prey died on the spot and the parrot regained his freedom.
I love this story!!!!
When I was younger, before rheumatoid arthritis got me, I knitted a 6’x6’ bedspread, every ten stitches was the rosary prayer; of course I added the other prayers as well; it took me three months to do it, and when I was finished with knitting, I crocheted the edging, and crocheted roses that I knitted onto the body of the bedspread.
It was huge, took over 20 skeins of yarn. I wish I could do it again, but don’t have the strength in my hands anymore. Little did I know that it would be one of the best projects of my life, one that I have looked back on many times with happiness.
A very dear friend, not Catholic, traded it to me for a fairly large item I needed...
:)Wow this is an old thread.Monday a man came in to say Goodbye.He worked for the carnival and I was so glad they were breaking down and leaving.For 3 days he would come into the thrift store and say he was broke and had no money for food and clothing.We helped him-no money.He would just on and and on and talk.He seemed like he was on speed.So Monday he stood before me and I said I prayed for you at Mass yesterday.He just looked at me and listened.I told him I put nice clothes on him and knelt him in front of me before the alter.Then I said the Hail Mary.He broke down and cried.He told me no-one has ever prayed for him before and he has never been inside of a church.We talked a little longer about how to pray.I gave him a rosary.He asked if he could write me .I told him no and then he left.He promised me he would try to learn how to pray.