Thread by @diary476

I haven't done a nice thread in a while. Let's fix that.

AVERA MARIA AND THE BLESSED MOTHER // A Thread.

I'm consecrated to the Blessed Mother. Our Lady of Fatima, to be exact.
I use to wear chains, bit I need to get new ones.
I wear the brown scapular, I engage in Twitter debates because if you come at Mama you will catch 👏 these 👏 hands 👏, but still, something was missing.

While I was thinking about the about two weeks ago, I decided to pray the Rosary Novena.
I failed.
BUT, two beautiful things came out of this.
1) I got a beautiful new Rosary from an agnostic friend that really tugged on my heart,
2) I began reading a book about O.L. of Kibeho.

In reading about Our Lady of Kibeho, I saw a side of Our Lady that I didn't know existed. I read about her laughing when one of the visionaries challenged her to a fist fight, I read about dancing with school children, I read about her and recognized her as human!!

I think at times, we can get caught up in seeing her floating on a cloud, garments white as snow, crown on her head as the Mother of God, that we forget the fact that she's the Mother of all of us, too.

At Kibeho, she asked one of the visionaries to play with her. PLAY 👏 WITH 👏 HER 👏
Literally WHATTTT????

I'm so childlike at heart; to experience Our Lady like this, it changed my life!
But Mary didn't stop with me there.

That Rosary my friend gave me? I found myself not going anywhere without it. I carried it in my pocket, in my hand, on my bed next to me as I slept, but I was still finding it so difficult to pray with it.

So Mary says to me, "Pray the whole thing."

...Excuse me?

I saw this INCREDIBLE YouTube video explaining why we should aim to pray all four decades of the Rosary every day.
Now, I maybe prayed one or two Rosaries a MONTH. Now Mary was asking me to pray 4 a day???
Umm how about no??

But I thought, I have absolutely nothing to lose. I don't do much everyday. Why not just try it. Just once.

One time was all it took.

The changes I experienced were immediate. Our Lady works FAST!!
1) Temptations that I've struggled with for the past 15 years of my life were almost completely gone.
2) Fears I've carried with me all my life, gone.
3) I kept wanting to pray. I didn't want to stop!!

I was SHOOOOOOOK to say the very least. Mary literally took me under her mantle so quickly and so tenderly embraced me.
Guys this is like nothing I have EVER experienced before in my LIFE, all because of the power of the Rosary.

I sure hope I can keep this up. I know I'm on a high right now and it's going to get more and more difficult eventually, but I know I have to keep praying the whole Rosary.
Mary's got me now. I can't go back after this. There's no way.

Guys. PRAY ALL 20 DECADES OF THE ROSARY.
Just once. Try it just one time!!!
Just see what happens. See what Mary can do after one time.
I wonder if any of you will experience some of the same things as me.

+ TOTUS TUUS, MARIA +