In my childhood, there appeared an old Jesuit, Father Michel, to whom one day I said: “All the saints I hear about greatly honored the Virgin Mary. It troubles me because I truly do not feel such pious devotion!”
He then replied: “Don’t worry about it, it’s quite simple. Whenever you are alone, say a Hail Mary.” I followed this advice so thoroughly that today, when I am over eighty, I cannot fall asleep any other way than by repeatedly saying the Hail Mary!
(Abbé Pierre /Henri Grouès, 1912–2007/, Testament)
