Where is the “Hail Mary?”?
The Roman Catholic view of Mary is pagan, it is utterly pagan. Listen to what the [Roman Catholic] Church says, 1. Pope Benedict XV, in 1918 – “Mary suffered with Christ and nearly died with Him when He died, thus she may rightly be said to have redeemed the human race with Christ.” 2. Pope Pius XI, in 1923 – “The virgin of sorrows shared the work of redemption with Jesus Christ.” 3. Pope Leo XIII, in 1891 – “No one can approach Christ except through His mother.” 4. The Catechism, in the Sunday Missal (Catholic Catechism) says, “My salvation depends on Mary’s mediation and union with Christ, because of her exalted position as Mediatrix of all grace.” 5. Vatican II, said, “Mary’s intercession continues to win for us the gift of eternal salvation.” Let me tell you something about Mary—she is not co-Redemptrix, she doesn’t mediate grace. She’s never heard a prayer from anybody. Mary has never heard anybody pray, and Mary has never done anything for anybody! She can’t hear prayers. Mary is
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Luke 1:28 “And coming to her, he said, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you.” The Greek kecharitomene means favored by grace, graced. Its tense suggests a permanent state of being “highly favored,” thus full of grace. Charity, the divine love within us, comes from the same root. God is infinite Goodness, infinite Love. Mary is perfect created goodness, filled to the limit of her finite being with grace or charity. Blessed art thou among women Luke 1:41-42a “When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women…” Luke 1:48 “For he has looked upon his handmaid’s lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed.” Among all women is a way to say the highest/greatest etc. of a group in Semitic languages (these words would likely have been spoken in Aramaic). Mary is being called the greatest of al
Luke *Rosary is* identified with the *meditation* on the Fifteen Mysteries of Christ’s life praying, the Hail Mary’s and the Our Father’s. The Sign of the Cross In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The Sign of the Cross is made with the right hand by touching the forehead at the word “Father,” the chest at “Son,” and the left and right shoulders at “Holy Spirit.” The Apostles’ Creed I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. * I believe the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the
First up, would the poster who stated so incorrectly that Catholics aren’t Christians PLEASE get their facts right. OK now, The Hail Mary (sometimes called the “Angelical salutation”, sometimes, from the first words in its Latin form, the “Ave Maria”) is the most familiar of all the prayers used by the Universal Church in honour of our Blessed Lady. It is commonly described as consisting of three parts. The first, “Hail (Mary) full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women”, embodies the words used by the Angel Gabriel in saluting the Blessed Virgin (Luke, I, 28). The second, “and blessed is the fruit of thy womb (Jesus)”, is borrowed from the Divinely inspired greeting of St. Elizabeth (Luke 1:42), which attaches itself the more naturally to the first part, because the words “benedicta tu in mulieribus” (I, 28) or “inter mulieres” (I, 42) are common to both salutations. Finally, the petition “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of ou
