"I owe Mary all the graces I have received"

After a reckless youth, a serious accident, and personal searches, I discovered the Catholic faith at the age of 25, through a group of schismatic traditional Latin Mass members. I stayed for several years with that community that was separated from the Church.

Thanks to God, one day I realized that I had been too naive and presumptuous in trusting human beings, and went through a period of profound interior desolation, especially as I did not know how I had sinned and where my errors lay.

On top of this, I was angry with those I had believed and with whom I lived.

God being merciful, He did not leave me in my confusion. He inspired me to have recourse to Mary with confidence. For several years I had been reciting my rosary daily and, faced with the extent of my misery, I resolved to recite the entire 20-decade rosary.

In the months that followed, after my consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I had many interior and exterior struggles, but all of them prepared me for that key moment when, during a pilgrimage to Saint Francis de Sales shrine in Annecy, thanks to God, I finally realized the errors that had kept me from being in communion with the Church. I think that all my trials served to purify my heart.

So I want to give thanks with all my soul to Mary and her Immaculate Heart. I am convinced that I owe her all the graces I received while I was still in that community and, above all, my entry into the Catholic Church a year and a half after I resolved to recite the rosary daily, and 6 months after I was consecrated to her Immaculate Heart.

I was officially received into the Catholic Church by the bishop of my diocese. After a year of transition rich in encounters and testimonials, I will return to the seminary to resume the studies I began outside the Catholic Church. I hope to be able to make Jesus the Savior and Mary our Mother known and loved!

I am reminded of a saying of Saint Louis de Montfort: "Jesus is not known enough, because Mary is not known enough"!

Theo

Testimonial sent to Mary of Nazareth on July 14, 2022