Faces of Mercy
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Photo by: Felix Carroll
Jim Monahan, Boston, Mass.
In a witness he gave on the Marians' bus pilgrimage from Stockbridge, Mass., to the Mercy Congress, he said:
"From the moment I was born, I wasn't able to speak or walk. I had convulsions. My parents would take me to Children's Hospital every week for three-and-a-half years.
"Then, my mother made a nine-day novena to the Holy Souls in Purgatory. By that time, I still couldn't walk or talk. On the ninth day, she went to Mass. When she came home, she did a whole load of laundry and took me out back in the carriage and was hanging the clothes on the line. While her back was turned to me, I got up, got out of the carriage, and for the first time in my life I walked. My mother turned around and just about collapsed, seeing me there walking for the first time.
"That night my father and my brothers came home and just about broke down they were so happy.
"A short time after — less than a year — my speech came. The doctors couldn't believe it. I praise the Lord.
"This happened 63 years ago. And one more thing: My mother's novena ended on All Soul's Day. In 1987, my mother died. It was on Nov. 2, All Soul's Day. I know she's in heaven."
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