Hail Mary?
In the course of my Legion of Mary work, what we call a weekly "duty" I was in a so-called stall, outside the oldest Church in the city of Belfast (St Mary's Chapel Lane), here in Northern Ireland. It has been notorious the presence of atheists, lapsed Catholic, people of other religions and also protestants passing by. What amazes me, the most of the time, is the arrogance in which protestants have when approaching Catholics, judging they are going to find people who are in the Church only per tradition, that they do not actually believe in what the Holy Mother Church teaches nor have a clue what their faith is about, that they need to accept Jesus... It was one of these days, when a gentleman approached where we were standing with the beautiful paint of the Legion of Mary and started to point the finger out to some people who were with there. He started by saying, "This is outrageous... Only Jesus saves... There is no need for Mary, she was a normal woman, ...