{"id":8401,"date":"2022-06-08T10:15:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apostolowiemilosci.pl\/?p=8401"},"modified":"2022-06-08T10:15:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:15:55","slug":"mary-and-me-a-marian-testimony-natalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/apostolowiemilosci.pl\/?p=8401","title":{"rendered":"Mary and Me. A Marian testimony – Natalia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mary was in my life from the very beginning. It was my grandmother who used to kneel with me and show me how to put rose-scented beads in my hand. It was with her that we knelt every day in front of the picture of Our Lady and Child apologizing, thanking, and asking for intercession. Even today, when I am grown up, at the end of the prayer I repeat the words that my grandmother taught me – „Good night, Mommy, because I am going to bed, because tomorrow I have to get up again in the morning. Calmly, quietly, I will sleep through the night. Good night, Mommy. Good night, Mommy. May Your grace, faith and power always be with me.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Mary is constantly present in my life. I love to talk to her, as I mentioned earlier, turning the beads in my rosary. I love to sing Marian songs. Often even in everyday life, while cooking or doing something I sing to myself. During this time my fears and anxieties go away. These Marian songs are a kind of solace for me.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I had such a situation as a child. I was playing with a friend in the yard and her grandmother called her.  I was about four years old at the time. We had just moved to the village with my mom and dad. I was playing with this neighbor and her grandmother called her to come home, because she was going to church. I ask her why she’s going to church, but my friend says – Well, there’s a rosary prayer!  She didn’t have to tell me twice. I didn’t even tell my parents, so I quickly ran to the church, which was about two kilometers away, undressed, unwashed, in torn tights and a dirty dress. The whole village was looking for me. My parents were out of their minds, they couldn’t find me, and suddenly someone there told my parents that they had seen me going to church. I came back from the church and they were worried, upset, you know, we had a conversation. Mom didn’t scream at me then, and I say to her – Mom, but I was only praying on the rosary.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

There were all kinds of situations in my life. There was also a period where I was angry, where I was doubtful. It was a period where my brother got cancer and died. I was angry at that time. I was reproaching my Mary, why my requests were not heard, why she did not listen to me, why she did not help. At that time we were supposed to go on a pilgrimage to Czestochowa with my brother. Unfortunately, when it turned out that I would have to go alone because he had died, I was very much against it. I only went on the pilgrimage because I didn’t want to waste the money my parents had paid for it. As I said, I was disappointed. On the eighth day in Czestochowa I knelt before the picture of Our Lady of Czestochowa and burst into tears. I asked myself why all this had happened? Why did no one listen to me?  I asked, I begged. Suddenly I felt warm, I stopped crying, I felt the presence of Mary. I heard her saying to me – Yes, your requests have been heard. You asked for help, you asked for your brother to be relieved.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I was a little confused, I didn’t really believe what I was hearing. Then I understood. That is how I was heard. I asked for relief for my brother. As time went on, it turned out that it was a relief for him. This death was a relief for him because if he had survived then his life would have been physically full of suffering, agony, grief. This death was a deliverance from pain and agony for him.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

 Another situation. When I gave birth to my first daughter, the labor was long and hard, I couldn’t stand it anymore. I began to doubt, but when I felt so bad and weak I began to pray the rosary and said, 'Our Lady of Czestochowa, I can’t do it anymore, I can’t stand it, and you know that after 15 hours when I finally began to pray aloud, to talk to Mary, the birth ended within half an hour. I felt then that this relief was brought to me by Her.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The other situation I can think of is quite recent.  I had a harder time in my life. Health problems, financial problems, some family problems. At that time I was in hospital, visiting a doctor. A friend accompanied me as an interpreter. After the visit we left the hospital and she said to me that she had been thinking about me, praying for me and that she wanted to give me something. She wants me to always have this with me, that she also got this from someone and it helped her a lot in her life. You know what I got? She gave me a picture of Our Lady of Medjugorie. Well, it couldn’t be otherwise, Mother again. After that meeting, after that conversation with that friend, I relaxed a little bit. I let it go, I stopped thinking so much, thinking, and you know, everything began to calm down, everything began to work out. Somewhere those health problems started to disappear, to calm down. The financial situation somewhere also started to improve. The worries and troubles all slowly started to go away.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I believe in it, I believe that she is always with me, that she helps me, that she intercedes for me. Of course, like everyone else, we sometimes have weaker and worse moments, but she had it tough, she also sacrificed a lot in her life, she also suffered, but she showed that she obeyed God, that she believed. She is such a model, she is such a role model. She is very strong. Maybe I will end here, because I will probably talk too much tomorrow (joy).<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Testimony by Natalia Nowak, 25.03.2022<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Translation by Pawe\u0142 Zawal<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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