How Memorizing Prayers Together Brought My Family Closer to God
Last fall, signs outside our parish and notices within our weekly bulletin reminded my family that the month of October in our Catholic faith is…
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No Mere Greeting: The Hidden Meaning of the Hail Mary
One thing that makes the rosary one of my favorite devotions is that it is essentially a scriptural prayer. This is true in two ways:…
Do we ever say the Hail Mary at Mass?
No, the Hail Mary is not a part of the Catholic Mass. That said, I have been to a few Masses where the priest inserts…
Who wrote the Hail Mary prayer?
Actually, we owe the first half of it to the angel Gabriel and to Mary’s cousin Elizabeth. “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with…