meaningless words. But this is not the way the rosary was meant to be prayed. The repetition of the Hail Mary, rather, is often compared to a child speaking words of love over and over again. As St. John Paul [...] prayers from memory that are intended to allow us to enter into the mysteries of the life of Jesus and Mary. Some find it helpful to combine Scripture reading and even some silence with the prayers to aid in

short, running for just over two minutes, but there is still time for Elvis to fully intone the Hail Mary. The song was written by one of Elvis’s childhood friends, Lee Denson. Denson was the son of a [...] the son of a Protestant minister in the Pentecostal Church, was married to a young Catholic named Mary. Because of this, Lee became interested in Catholic dogma. He often witnessed his wife praying the [...] appeared in 1917. Gradually, Lee turned to Catholicism and decided to embrace it for good. One day, when Mary had neglected her prayers for some time, she lost her rosary that had been given to her by a friend

the Word of God. The key prayers of the Rosary are taken from Scripture; the Our Father and the Hail Mary are from the Gospels. The Rosary also puts us into contact with the saving mysteries of Jesus. Like [...] invite Mary into what we are doing, and she is our Mother. She never fails. She is so good, so full of love for her Son, and for all of us. When we pray the Rosary, it is as if we are saying to Mary, “Mother [...] believing. I would like to offer a simple, yet profoundly powerful corrective to this unhappy trend: Mary and the Rosary. I know, it sounds too simple, even a bit boring. The Rosary? Yes, the Rosary. I have

fingers collected momentum as we moved from bead to bead across the chain through the first three Hail Marys and asked for the gifts of faith, hope, and love. My dad’s voice often cracked as he recited the

life of Mary, or finding some kind of spiritual comfort in the familiarity of the lack of brilliant new insight, or what. And darn it, I always lose track and end up saying either nine or eleven Hail Marys

also particularly venerate the Virgin Mary. All Cistercian churches are dedicated to the Virgin of the Assumption. The Cistercians understood how the Virgin Mary was a model of openness to the mystery [...] all over the world, Cistercian monks and nuns end the day by singing the Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen). Mary is present with us in our "valley of tears" as a "Mother of mercy" who shows us Christ, the

golden wings, clad in white, the angel descended from heaven. When the young Justyna prayed the Hail Mary, the figure rose from the throne and ascended into heaven together with the angel. The apparitions [...] Lady; the Child was holding the orb in his left hand. Still other angels were raising a crown above Mary’s head. Yet another angel brought a gold scepter and held it in his right hand above the crown. One [...] with her 12-year-old Barbara Samulowska. During the apparition Justyna asked: “What do you want, Holy Mary?” The reply she received was, “I want you to pray the Rosary daily.” Our Lady spoke in the local dialect

Lady of Molen (France) Christmas Anticipation Prayer Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold.

to descend into; where is it? Not in you, Eve, mother of our affliction, not in you! But in blessed Mary. She is indeed this valley of Hebron, because of her humility and because of her strength. She is [...] her; the Holy Spirit has found her to enlighten her; and the angel has found her to greet her thus: "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee!" Here she is, the strong woman, in whom reflection replaces

into; where is it? Not in you, Eve, mother of our misfortune, not in you! But in the blessed Virgin Mary! She is indeed this valley of Hebron, because of her humility and because of her strength. She is [...] her; the Holy Spirit has found her to illuminate her; and the angel has found her to greet her thus: "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee!" Here she is, the strong woman, the one in whom thoughtfulness