"A priest and a rabbi walk into a hospital..."

Rabbi to Episcopalian priest:

"We Jews believe that if someone is suffering and we invoke his or her mother's name in prayer...

"...then God will be more merciful in granting your intercession for that person."



From the timely article A Rabbi Led Me to Rome by former Episcopal priest Taylor Marshall, in the March - April 2010 issue of This Rock magazine.


As Taylor Marshall concludes, after recounting his own Road to Damascus:

"Here was a surprising confirmation that Catholic customs are rooted in a Jewish understanding of the universe.

"The Church reveres and invokes the Blessed Mother because it inherited the Jewish custom of showing profound reverence for the spiritual role of the mother of a family..."

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