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path of faith which makes her experiences the appearance of Mother Mary. It is stated as follows.
For the first time since I had abandoned the path of faith, I felt a strong desire to pray. Although I was seated in a pew. My soul was kneeling at
the feet of the Lady before me, the woman who had said, “Yes,” when She could have said “no.” The angel would have sought out someone else, and
there would have been no sin in the eyes of the Lord, because God knows His children‟s weakness. Coelho, 1994: 85
Pilar‟s prayer becomes a sign that she starts to know Mother Mary. The situation of the above quotation pictures that Pilar is in the church and she prays in front of
Mother Mary‟s statue, she does not only see the existence of the statue, but she also feels the existance of Mother Mary who lives in her heart and communicates
with her. Pilar cares to herself and tries to open her heart and mind that she has a great help to find her way.
After Pilar recovers her faith and knows about Mother Mary, she tries to learn something that encourages her faith from Mother Mary. Pilar‟s way to
venerate Mother Mary can also be seen when she says “may the Immaculate Conception teach me to love as She loves” Coelho, 1994 :104. It means that
Pilar venerates Mother Mary based on her experience in meeting Mother Mary in her prayer. She believes that Mother Mary leads her in her life.
Pilar‟s experience in meeting Mother Mary shows that she is a nurturing woman, she cares to herself
that she realizes Mother Mary loves her through her prayer. In the previous analysis, the writer states that Pilar is a nurturing woman.
To venerate Virgin Mary, loyalty is needed in order to describe that to be an ideal Catholic is not easy. Mother Mary shows that although she faces a difficult time,
she still has a faith in God. Here, Pilar reveals that after she finds her faith, she has
a loyalty to keep her faith. Pilar‟s loyalty shows that she cares to herself. It is shown in the following quotation.
Then the world changes and we change with it. But I didn‟t want to be that way anymore. Fate had returned to me what had been mine and now
offered me to change myself and the world. Coelho, 1994: 156
The above quotation shows that Pilar has a faith in order to face many problems that she meets. She learns from Mother Mary for being a loyal woman who keeps
her faith in God in every situation that she faces.