I'm tired. I don't want to pray the rosary. And it was like this, it kept getting this more urgent, like pray the rosary. And I start praying. And right when I said amen, I felt on my left hand side, my shoulder. I knew it was a woman. Go check on

Madeline. Go check on Madeline. Go check on Madeline. This is touched by heaven. Everyday encounters

with God. Those moments when heaven and earth collide. And we see God. We see his hand

reaching out to us attempting to get our attention, inviting us into a closer relationship.

Here we share stories of encounter with angels. Divine intervention, prophetic dreams, visions, near-death experiences, big and little God incidents. I'm your host, Trapper Jack. Welcome. Episode 210. Oh, we're looking at the rosary, holy or hogwash. Well, I could give you my

opinion. I could, but that's not what Touched by Heaven is all about. It's all about these

encounter stories and God's opinion. My job is to align my thinking with his thinking,

plain and simple, right? Okay, so that's what we hope to do. In fact, his opinion on the matter is stated twice in this episode.

Amy's going to join us in a second here.

And something happened not once, but twice as like an exclamation mark on this topic of the rosary.

Is it holy or is it just a lot of nonsense and hogwash out there?

So I think we need to go

someplace holy to get our answer. Where are you from, Amy? I'm in Toledo. Holy Toledo,

of course. That's where we're going to go. And Amy has a story or two, or actually three.

My one hang up, which most converts will tell you, is Mary. That's the big one. And I think it's just because that's what we

were taught. Like she was never mentioned except at Christmas. You know, she got pregnant and had Jesus.

That was like the extent of it. Thank you very much. Then Mary walks away. Right. Right. And so like,

I mean, I don't even think I've ever heard of the wedding at Cana going to church. And we went to church every Sunday, every Sunday night, every Wednesday. I mean, it was like, my parents are strict Baptist. And I don't know whether they weren't talked about or I just wasn't listening. There's a kind of a, we all know there was some bad catechesis, some bad

teaching along the way. And, you know, it was funny, we were just listening to our local bishop

say, you know, I think up until about my senior year in high school, I was still, you know,

coloring Jesus. You know, it was like the teachings were horrible. It just wasn't there. There was kind of an

assumption going on. And then at some point, it's like, wait a minute, I don't know anything.

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