The greeting of the angel Gabriel opens this prayer. It is God himself ... Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2676-2677 Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed are thou among ...

Visit the homepage for more information. In a way the Hail Mary summarizes the whole of the Church's public prayers to Mary. For this Marian prayer was in its initial form among the first to be used ...

One of the first prayers that you and I learned as children was the Hail Mary, a prayer that some non-Catholics criticize for being directed to Mary rather than to God. Part of the problem is that ...

In the second, the soul repeats the greeting and, in the name of all people, call to holy Mary, whom we beg to ... The Handbook of Prayers Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy, our life, our ...

Prayers invoking Mary's intercession for your own personal intentions are in a separate class, arousing controversy since the time of the Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The ...