My friend Diana just shared this lovely children’s book with me. I had seen it in the Catholic Child catalog, but was unfamiliar with the story.
In short, a ragged old beggar woman enters a bakery, and tells the owner that she has no money, but is very hungry. If he would give her a crust of bread, she will offer a Mass for him. The baker scorns her offer. To tease her, and prove how little a Mass is worth, he takes a tiny slip of paper and writes ‘a Mass’ on it. He places that worthless scrap of paper on his scale, and a miracle takes place.
This charming story (with beautiful watercolor illustrations by Katalin Szegedi) is based on a family legend from a certain Father Stanislaus in Luxembourg
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