From A Moment with Mary: Go to the Holy Virgin—she will tell you what you must do I remember once at the Shrine of Luján I was in the confessional and there was a long queue. There was even a very modern young man, with earrings, tattoos, all those things... And he came to tell me what was happening to him. It was a big and difficult problem. And he said to me: “I told my mother all this and my mother said to me, go to Our Lady and she will tell you what you must do.” Here is a woman who had the gift of counsel. She did not know how to help her son out of his problem, but she indicated the right road—go to Our Lady and she will tell you. This is the gift of counsel. That humble, simple woman, gave her son the truest counsel. In fact, this young man said to me: “I looked at Our Lady and I felt that I had to do this, this and this...” I did not have to speak, his mother and the boy himself had already said everything. This is the gift of counsel. You mothers who have this gift, ask it for your children, the gift of giving good counsel to your children is a gift of God. Pope Francis General Audience of May 7, 2014
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