Wishing to proselytize, a Protestant pastor approached a farmer who was planting a peach tree. After greeting him, he asked if he had heard the priest’s sermon from him the previous Sunday at Sunday mass. The farmer said that he did and that he liked it a lot because it had been an exhortation to venerate the Virgin Mary, our Mother. Then the pastor responded with words of contempt about the cult of the Virgin.
The farmer, serene, interrupted him:
Do you like peaches?
Yes… of course… but what’s the point of that now?
You’ll understand right away. Whoever loves the peaches must also love the peach tree; he who loves the fruit must also esteem the plant. And likewise, whoever truly loves the Son cannot despise the Mother; that is to say, whoever loves the Lord well must necessarily love and venerate the Virgin.
The pastor did not know how to respond to the simple but accurate and pious argument.
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