This prayer is a gold mine!

Millions of Catholics recite the Hail Mary every day, sometimes in a hurry, without thinking about the words. And yet, this prayer is a gold mine!

Saint Bernard and many other saints insisted that Mary never refuses to hear the prayers of her children. Why do we ever refuse the love and consolation that the sweet Mother of God offers us?

Hugh Lammer was a Christian strong in his faith who used to preach violently against the Catholic Church. One day, he came across an explanation of the Hail Mary that he really liked, and he started reciting it every day. Then all his anti-Catholic animosity disappeared as if by magic. He converted, became a priest and a professor of Catholic theology in Breslau (Wroclaw, in German Breslau, is a city in Silesia, Poland).

Thousands of similar stories exist: a priest visits a man dying in despair because of his sins and lack of faith. The man refuses to confess. The priest manages to have him pray at least one Ave Maria. Shortly after, the unhappy man makes a sincere confession and dies in the grace of God…

Aleteia