If you could say Ave Maria

Jesus said, "Blessed are the lips and the lands where the words ‘Ave Maria’ are spoken.

‘Ave’: I greet you! From the smallest to the greatest, from the child to the parent, from the inferior to the superior, all are bound, by the law of human courtesy, to pronounce this respectful or loving greeting often, according to the circumstances. My brothers and sisters cannot refuse this act of reverential love to the perfect Mother we have in Heaven.

‘Ave Maria’: I greet you, Mary! It is a greeting that purifies the lips and the heart because we cannot say these words, in a thoughtful and sincere way, without the feeling of being a better person! It is as if one were approaching a source of angelic light and an oasis of lilies in bloom. ‘I greet you’: this is the word of the angel that you may say to greet the one whom the Three Persons greet with love! The invocation that saves! Always have it on your lips, not as a mechanical movement that excludes the soul, but as a movement of the spirit bowing before the queenship of Mary, and rising to her motherly heart.

If you could say these words with a true spirit, just those little words, you would become better, purer, more charitable. Because the eyes of your mind would then be fixed on Mary, and her holiness would enter your heart through this contemplation. If you knew how to say it, you would never be afflicted. For she is the source of graces and mercy. The doors of divine mercy open not only at the push of my Mother's hand, but at her mere glance."

(Words of Jesus in the notebooks of Maria Valtorta, 1943, September 3-7 and November 8)

From The 20 mysteries of the Rosary in the writings of Maria Valtorta - Centro Editoriale Valtortiano, p. 17.