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Hail Mary,
Full
of grace!
The Lord is with thee;
Blessed art thou among women,
And blessed is the fruit
Of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
Now and at the hour
Of our death. Amen.
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Ave Maria,
Gratia plena,
Dominus tecum,
benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui Iesus.
Sancta Maria mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc, et in hora mortis
nostrae. |
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Hail Mary (Ave
Maria) |
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Beloved and hailed by
devotees of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and
criticized by non-Catholics as heresy, the Hail Mary is
also called the "Angelical salutation" from the first
words in its Latin form the "Ave Maria." This is the
most familiar of all the prayers used by the Universal
Church in honor of our Blessed Lady and is commonly
described as consisting of three parts.
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"Hail (Mary) full of
grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst
women", is the salutation used by the Angel Gabriel
for the Blessed Virgin (Luke, I, 28).
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"And blessed is the
fruit of thy womb (Jesus)", is the Divinely inspired
greeting of St. Elizabeth (Luke, i, 42).
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The petition "Holy
Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at
the hour of our death. Amen." is stated by the
official "Catechism of the Council of Trent" to have
been framed by the Church itself.
The last part was a
petition added to this thanksgiving by the Catholic
Church as an invocation of the most holy Mother of God,
thereby implying that we should piously and suppliantly
have recourse to her in order that by her intercession
she may reconcile God with us sinners and obtain for us
the blessing we need both for this present life and for
the life which has no end.
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