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:…
hail mary
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…
Hail Mary, full of… umm, full of…
My memory… it slips sometimes.  I wish I could blame it on my advancing age. After all, forty is right around the corner and I’d…
