The “Hail Mary” of a Protestant is powerful!—( A True Story)
A little six-year-old Protestant boy had often heard his Catholic companion reciting the prayer ‘Hail Mary.’ He liked it so much that he copied it, memorized it and would recite it every day. ‘Look, Mummy, what a beautiful prayer,’ he said to his mother one day. ‘Never again say it,’ answered the mother.’ it is a superstitious prayer of Catholics who adore idols and think Mary a goddess. After all, she is a woman like any other. Come on, take this Bible and read it. It contains everything that we are bound to do and have to do.’
From that day on the little boy discontinued his daily ‘Hail Mary’ and gave himself more time to reading the Bible instead. One day, while reading the Gospel, he came across the passage about the Annunciation of the Angel to Our Lady. Full of joy, the little boy ran to his mother and said: ‘Mummy, I have found the ‘Hail Mary’ in the Bible which says: ‘Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women. ‘ Why do you call it a superstitious prayer?’
On another occasion he found that beautiful Salutation of St. Elizabeth to The Virgin Mary and the wonderful canticle. MAGNIFICAT in which Mary foretold that ‘the generations would call her blessed.’ He said no more about it to his mother but started to recite the ‘Hail Mary’ every day as before. He felt pleasure in addressing those charming words to the Mother of Jesus, our Savior.
When he was fourteen, he one day heard a discussion on Our Lady among the members of his family. Every one said that Mary was a common woman like any other woman. The boy, after listening to their erroneous reasoning, could not bear it any longer, and full of indignation, he interrupted them, saying: ‘Mary is not like any other children of Adam, stained with sin. No! The Angel called her FULL OF GRACE AND BLESSED AMONGST WOMEN. Mary is the Mother of Jesus Christ and consequently Mother of God. There is no higher dignity to which a creature can be raised.
The Gospel says that the generations will proclaim her blessed and you are trying to despise her and look down on her. Your spirit is not the Spirit Of the Gospel or of the Bible which you proclaim to be the foundation of the Christian religion.’ So deep was the impression which the boy’s talk had made that his mother many times cried out sorrowfully: ‘Oh my God! I fear that this son of mine will one day join the Catholic religion, the religion of Popes!’ And indeed, not very long afterwards, having made a serious study of both Protestantism and Catholicism, the boy found the latter to be the only true religion and embraced it and became one of its most ardent apostles.
Some time after his conversion, he met his married sister who rebuked his and said indignantly: ‘You little know how much I love my children. Should any one of them desire to become a Catholic, I would sooner pierce his heart with a dagger than allow him to embrace the religion of the Popes!’ Her anger and temper were as furious as those of St. Paul before his conversion. However, she would change her ways, just as St. Paul did on his way to Damascus.
It so happened that one of her sons fell dangerously ill and the doctors gave up hope of recovery. Her brother then approached, her and spoke to her affectionately, saying: ‘My dear sister, you naturally wish to have your child cured. Very well, then, do what I ask you to do. Follow me, let us pray one ‘Hail Mary’ and promise God that, if your son recovers his health, you would seriously study the Catholic doctrine, and should you come to the conclusion that Catholicism is the only true religion, you would embrace it no matter what the sacrifices may be.’
His sister was somewhat reluctant at the beginning but as she wished for her son’s recovery. She accepted her brother’s proposal and recited the ‘Hail Mary’ together with him. The next day her son was completely cured! The mother fulfilled her promise and she studied the Catholic doctrine. After long preparation she received Baptism together with her family, thanking her brother for being an apostle to her.
*The story was related during a sermon given by the Rev. Father Tuckwell. ‘Brethren, he went on and said, ‘The boy who became a Catholic and converted his sister to Catholicism dedicated his whole life to the service of God. He is the priest who is speaking to you now!
What I am I owe to Our Lady. You, too, my dear brethren, be entirely dedicated also to Our Lady and never let a day pass without saying the beautiful prayer, ‘Hail Mary’, and your Rosary. Ask her to enlighten the minds of Protestants who are separated from the true Church of Christ founded on the Rock (Peter) and ‘against whom the gates of hell shall never prevail.’
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Wonderful & moving story! It should be given maximum exposure.
Let me tell you all a story. It is true. It happened to me. I was 9 years old. (Now I am 72 years old but I have never forgotten it.) My brother and I were ‘digging tunnels’ in an open field on the Southside of Chicago nearby where we live. It was after school and it was in the evening time. My brother and I had developed all sorts of sounds we would make if either of us were in danger, although why, I do not know. AS we were digging, a young man came up to us. He was older than a teenager but younger than a grown man and his voice was curiously high-pitched, or so it sounded to me.
He knelt down, opened up his pants, and then began to do things I had never seen anyone do before with parts of his own body. He called me to him and I did not move. I was frozen in place. He came to me and said, ‘you must do what I say or I will use the knife in my pocket on you!’ He put his hand over my mouth at that point in time. I was absolutely frozen stiff. All I thought of was: ‘Say the Hail Mary. Sister Nila (my 3rd grade teacher of those days) had taught me that Mary will protect me if I say the Hail Mary. I could remember and say the first half in my head. But, then, I could not remember the second part that started with ‘Holy Mary, Mother of God”….”I’ve got to remember I said to myself or I will be stabbed by this man!” Over and over I said to myself, Holy Mary, Mother of God, Holy Mary Mother of God…” and then I remembered the rest! I said it: ‘pray for is sinners now and at the hour of our death, Amen’! With those words, I ‘unfroze’ and broke free and ran and ran, calling to my brother with hoots and hollars! It seemed forever, but he came running and we both ran across the field to the street where at that same moment my father was driving our Grocery Delivery Truck home to our Store. We yelled and yelled that someone had tried to ‘kidnap’ us. (We didn’t know what else to call this event.) At last we were safe!
I have never, ever forgotten the HAIL MARY and its power in my life. Everytime a child is missing and not found, or found dead, I think of my powerful HAIL MARY and how I was saved. gh
Thank you Mr Ray for that powerful witness. Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us (me) now and at the hour of our (my) death.
i am finished with my feelings of guilt of honoring, loving and praying to our Father thru our BELOVED MOTHER OF GOD and ours.God has brought me to this conclusion after bombarding me with beautiful
true stories like these.
thank You JESUS,thank You JESUS,thank You JESUS,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Please remember that members of the Orthodox and Non-Chalcedonian Churches are deeply devoted to the most holy Theotokos, too.
Here is the Orthodox form of the Angelic Salutation:
Hail (or Rejoice) Mary, Virgin Theotokos full of Grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, for you have borne Christ, the Savior and Deliverer of our souls.
In Churches of the Syriac tradition, the Salutation begins, “Peace to you……”. Doubtless the Angel said, “Shalom, Mariam”
St. Seraphim of Sarov said we have only two prayers delivered to us from heaven: The Lord’s Prayer and Angelic Salutation.
Good thing that the New American bible didn’t fall into his hands. He would have found that Mary was only “… most highly favored….” and not “graticia plena” – full of grace.
How impoverished have our bishops have left our modern Church.
Wow… what a powerful story of conversion. And Georgia, THANK YOU for sharing your powerful story of Mary’s protection in your life. May Mother Mary protect you always, and all the little children.
Mother Mary, pray for us all, and for our families and our country.
As a Catholic convert of over 40 years I must admit that I adore our Virgin Mary as much as the Father Almighty, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
Some years ago I was given the Miraculous Medal of Mary which was blessed by the parish priest.
I drive a lot as there is hardly any public transport available where I live. Would you believe that ever since wearing this medal I have never had a car accident! Many times I avoided collisions by a very narrow margin and in the majority of cases I was amazed how this happened as my reflexes were certainly not up to this. I wear this Miraculous Medal always and never take it off, only when for health reasons I have to have an x-ray. And of course I say the Hail Mary morning and night. Pax.
\…I adore our Virgn Mary as much as the Father Almighty, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.\
Then you are sorely in need of instruction in the Catholic faith. A good start would be a trip to the confessional, confessing the sin of idolatry.
STEVE RAY HERE: I wouldn’t be too hard on our friend. I often say I adore my wife and certainly know the difference between love and adoration. I think what was being said was simply an “I love Mary!” My guess is his words have to be seen as words of love, not necessarily theological. I say to my wife, “You are the most beautiful woman in the world and I adore you” (and I mean it), but those are the words of love, not of “theological” or rational truth. In my eyes she is. To his eyes he loves Mary and expresses it with words of love.
However you are right. We are to worship and adore God alone. All others can be loved, venerated, honored, etc. But strictly speaking adoration and worship are for God alone. I think if you put it that way to our friend he would agree wholeheartedly.
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I dearly love our mother Mary with all my heart. I remember some 30 yrs ago as i was forever consulting an ob-gyne for the 6 yrs i was barren & underwent every test & medication possible for me to get pregnant. After 6 yrs, i finally gave up. One day, i read from the papers that the image of our Lady of Fatima was coming over the Philippines in line with Her world tour. I went to attend mass amidst the throng of millions who attended at the Quirino grandstand on April 12, 1984. Mama Mary’s image was so far away it seemed like only 1/4 of an inch, but i prayed to Her image anyway. I prayed with all my heart..”Mama Mary, please gift me with a child on my coming birthday June 19. I really want to have a son”. One week after, blisters formed on my upper right arm & i thought i was sick with something. So, i was rushed to the hospital & ultrasound was administered. I was made to return a week after. The lady doctor told me that five ob-gynecologists studied the result of the ultrasound & were one in saying that myoma has enveloped my uterus. I was scheduled for operation in 2 weeks time. By the time i came back i was rescheduled for the next day as there was an emergency operation that day. I thought of using my time to pray the whole afternoon in the lonely room i occupied. I prayed the holy rosary non-stop until my doctor came to visit me at 9pm. She touched my lower abdomen & i saw a surprised expression on her face & told the nurse to give me a gravendex test early morning as i was due for operation on the pm of that next day. To make the story short, i found myself next day on the recovery room & the nurse friend told me to “claim it”. I didn’t understand what she said. Later on, as i was wheeled to my own room, i was told by my nurse friend that she was one among those who assisted inside the operating room. I was then administered the general anaesthesia & fully asleep. The lady doctor was about to make an incision to my lower abdomen when some Force made her hands so hard she had to put back the cutting instrument. She proceeded again but the same thing happened (nobody in the operating room said or did anything to prevent her, as my nurse friend told me). It happened the third time, & the doctor remembered about the gravendex test. Lo & behold ! I was 3 months pregnant ! So, if you would count the time i prayed to mama Mary at the Quirino grandstand, she could have given me my gift that time i prayed to her on April 12. And the blisters on my right arm may have been manifestations of my progressing pregnancy or maybe…it could have been myoma initially but becoz i prayed the holy rosary non-stop at the hospital, Mama Mary touched me. I love you, mama Mary & thank you so much for giving me a healthy & loving son.
When we pray the Hail Mary, The Blessed Virgin Mary intercedes on our behalf to Abba Father. It is very important to say three Hail Mary whenever in need.
Very inspiring story… I remember my mother told me a story about what happened to me when I was a baby.. I was sick then and had 50/50 chance of living, the doctor made my father to sign a contract that whatever happened to me they did their best and they should not be to blame… with a little hope my mother pray to our Lady of Perpetual Help, it’s really a miracle that I am still alive until today. Thank you to our Mother Mary who really ready to help us with her powerful intercession. :))
very good news, i accept it that hail Mary is the powerful prayer.because praise Jesus & Mary in at a time
so when we start saying hail Mary will happen many good thinks ,trust Mary she is not a any other
women but powerful mother of Jesus,recite rosary ,recite rosary, recite rosary sins never approach us
good news hail Mary saying
I had my tubes tied when I was young after giving birth to 2 kids. I did not want to have any more kids and not married. Finally got married and now I can not conceive. My prayer is to get pregnant and have a healthy child for my husband. This is what my marriage and life is missing. My husband and I want to have a baby. Please pray for Mr. and Mrs. John Robert
Yes, this is true that our Mother Mary really help us when we recite the rosary, it was our first baby during the laboring of my wife in hospital the doctor said my wife doen’t know how to labor and she needs a ceasarean operation and she made me buy the necessary medecine for the operation. Right away i secure the medecine but at the same time praying to Mama Mary asking for help that my wife won’t be operated. Since i forgot to recall back about what is the mystery of that day then i ask my mother-in-law and she answered me. I keep on praying while waiting what will happen. Just a few minutes the doctor called another doctor to help and assist my wife. At this moment, i am very thankful to our Mother Mary that my wife had to be used a “low-porcept method” of pulling out the baby. Imagine out of 21 who labored on that day there are three of them left in bed and one of that 3 womens is my wife.
Now i could say there is nothing impossible with prayer esp. the rosary the complete mysteries of the life of Jesus. I had a healthy baby girl and she is grown up now. Intercessory prayer from the saint like Mary is very much important when our times get rough!
What a buetiful story. So dear brothers and sisters we should always put trust whenever we are pvraying to the Blessed Virgin Mary. She always with us though we cant see her. O Mary who was conceived without origin sin, pray for us who have recourse to you. I love Mother Mary and i pray that one day i make it from Uganda to Medjugorje to be among the many witnesses.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I too have a testimony to share about our blessed Mother.
Once I was staying in a lower basement room for rent in a small house. The owner never told me that there is any problem with the house. But I was shaken one day when it started to rain. There was water flooding all over the place and it started to enter my house too. When I enquired what really happened that the water took so much of advantage, the neighborhood told me that the dam was opened in a nearby lake and the water gushed into outskirts of the city. I didn’t know what to do as I tried to elevate all the things to the higher shelf, I could do nothing more.
But one thought came to my mind, one of my friends told me once that his grandma used to pray the rosary whenever there were floods in her house, this thought stroke me, all I had was a small place to knell, I went on my knees and took hold of the Rosary and started praying. As I kept praying mystery upon mystery and continued to say Hail Mary! Repetitively, I witnessed the waters went down. By the time I said all the 15 mysteries the water was down completely.
I thanked the Miracle Mama Mary did for me, from then on I used it all my life, it really helps me in troublesome situations.
Thanks for reading this testimony of mine.
Thank you Mama Mary! I will love you forever! All the miracles you do for me are still unseen, but I believe that you are there for us!
Dear brothers and sisters i must admit that i believe all of your wonderful stories ,it also happen to that when ever i prayed to the HAIL MARY i always see with my own eyes evrithing i ask happens ,so please never forget to say the hail mary prayer.god bless.
Dear All,
Pray to our dearest Mother for my wife as she is losing faith because of problems in finance and family.She at times does not go to mass.
I am really thankful to our dear MOTHER MARY. Whenever I prayed HAIL MARY miracles took place in my life. I had gone through so many tragedies in my life. But MOTHER MARY is always by my side. HAIL MARY is a powerful prayer.
I thank Mother ary for all that She has done in my life and is still doing. I thank Mother Mary from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you Dr Gboco for helping me to get my lovely partner back in my life. I am so blessed that you used a non forceful way of uniting and reuniting us. Our past, presence and future seems to have all merged into one, gbocotemple@yahoo.com You told me that everyone has a compatible soul mate whether in their life or waiting to come into their lives. I am glad its my partner of old. I did not want to really go and be with someone else.. You have removed the extra baggage that has been affecting us and holding us back. Peace to you
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