Mary; not just another woman!

I was fascinated by a story in the Fatima Crusader. A Fr Tuckwell was talking to his parishioners about a six year old boy who had a catholic friend who used to recite the Hail Mary. The little boy loved what he heard and began to say the prayer with him. He told is mother about how beaufiful the prayer was but she replied "It is not biblical. It is catholic superstition. They worship idols and make her a Goddess"". The little boy stopped saying the prayer but some time later he was reading his bible and came upon St Luke. "Hail, full of grace the Lord is with Thee" and then St Elizabeth "Blessd art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of they womb" The boy ran to his mother. "Look, mother, it is biblical" He then started saying the Hail Mary again though his parents did not approve. When he was 14 there was a discussion again in his house in which Mary was described as a common woman like every other woman. He could take it no longer. "Mary is not like any other children of Adam stained with sin. No! The Angel called her full of grace and blessed among women. Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ and consequently the MOther of God. There is no higher dignity to which a creature can be raised. The Gospel says all generations shall call her blessed yet you are trying to despis her and look down on her. Your spirit is not the spirit of the Gospel nor the Bible which you claim to be the foundation of the Christian religion" So deep was the impression the boy made that his mother feared he was going to join the religion of the Popes. The boy eventually did. HIs sister hated him for changing his relgion but when her child fell ill the young man persuaded her to say the Hail Mary and if the child recovered study the Catholic Faith. The sister did so and the child recoverd and she became a catholic. It is a beautiful story and of course Fr Tuckwell admitted he was the boy. I have heard priests in their efforts to forward ecumenism say much the same thing. But Mary is `not just like us` She is our beautiful mother and can give us whatever we wish for the salvation of ourselves and for the salvation of others. Let us make her our Queen and restore our beautiful England to her care.