There Was Once a Girl Who Challenged Mother Mary to a Fistfight

HAIL MARY

It wasn’t me, I swear!

Challenging Mother Mary to a fistfight is something I absolutely would have done back in the day, but this wasn’t me I swear. Ironically it was a teenage girl named, wait for it…

Marie-Claire.

Sigh.

Same name as mine, and same shit as I would do.

MaryClare, Marie-Claire, same difference.

Marie-Claire was a visionary from Kibeho High School in Rwanda in the apparations of Mary in Kibeho. She showed three teenage girls the Rwandan genocide before it happened.

There’s a few similarities between Marie-Claire and myself, even in how we met Our Mother. Marie-Claire had spent months bullying the first two visionaries of the Kibeho apparitions, and then one day Mother Mary showed up for Marie-Claire.

When Marie-Claire met Mother Mary, it was a moment of conversion for her. She first asked Marie-Claire to sing a song taken from the Sermon on the Mount:

Marie-Claire, feeling embarrassed and guilty, refused to sing the song. Damn, I like this Marie-Claire, she’s feisty and I feel like I’m looking in the mirror.

Mother Mary, however, insisted, and asked one of the girls that Marie-Claire had bullied for seeing the apparitions, to sing with her. Anathalie held Marie-Claire’s hands and they sang it together.

I too know the pain of having to eat my words and realizing I am wrong after bullying someone. It feels like shit, but the victim of the bullying deserves to be acknowledged and to hear their bully admit wrongdoing, which is what Marie-Claire did.

She confessed to the whole school that she had bullied the other two girls and that Mary had appeared to her too. Marie-Claire was a changed person.

Mother Mary has brought me many conversion moments.

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