Posts made in January, 2009

Mary's place in the Creed

Posted by on January 1, 2009 in Catechism Stories, prayer | 0 comments

A Protestant clergyman was visiting an orphanage, and the children were each reciting their prayers for him to hear. On little boy, who had previously been at a Catholic school, after finishing the Our Father began the Hail Mary. ‘No, no!’ said the clergyman. ‘We don’t want to hear about her — go on to the Creed.’ The little boy did so, but stopped suddenly when he came to ‘born of the…’ and said: ‘Here she comes again — what shall I do now, sir?’ Indeed we cannot have Jesus without Mary. - Rev. F.H. Drinkwater, Catechism

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