The "Ave Maria" is one of the essential prayers of the Christian Church.
The text is historically divided in three parts:
The first portion consists of the opening salutation of the Angel Gabriel with which he greeted the Blessed Virgin on the day of the Annunciation
(Luke 1:28).
The second part is the divinely inspired greeting of St. Elizabeth uttered
during the Visitation. (Luke 1:42).
The third and final portion, the addition of the holy name and the final petition for intercession, first appeared c. 1440 with Bernadine of Sienna and was
fixed in this present form by Pope Pius V in the Breviary of
1568.
Although the Breviary established definitively the text of the Ave Maria,
many composers used distinct versions of text in their works.
Latin text
English text
Ave Maria, gratia plena,
Dominus tecum.
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
Ora pro nobis, peccatoribus,
Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace,
The Lord is with you.
Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
now and in the hour of our death.
Amen.
This lovely Marian hymn owes it's
text to a 12th century poem of St Bernard. Mary is our eternal mother,
drawing us closer to God through Jesus.
My mother passed away last week and I played this at her funeral. Some days
when awareness was all but lost I would take out my rosary and put it in her
hands,she always began to pray aloud right away. Her speach was quiet and
perfect in prayer. What a beautiful gift we have in the Blessed Virgin.
I feel sorry for those who think that Catholics worship Mary, or images and
statues of her. They lose so much by conjuring up fictional theology, or
they listen to many a lost Catholic who do not understand their own
doctrine. Hardness of heart keeps them from knowing a mother who's love is
beyond comprehension.
I still have such vivid mental images of my maternal grandmother meditating
on the mysteries of Christ though the rosary. Perhaps even more touching are
the memories of my paternal grandmother, not Catholic , who had a
significant devotion to Mary and prayed the rosary daily. In those days many
Protestants had no fear of showing their love for the Virgin. Satan hates
the rosary and works hard to keep us from Mary. After all it was her yes to
God that set in motion his defeat at the hands of her son Jesus.
guarneriviolinaddict
October 04, 2008
Daily, daily sing to Mary,
Sing, my soul, her praises due.
All her feasts, her actions worship
With the heart's devotion true.
Lost in wond'ring contemplation,
Be her Majesty confess'd.
Call her Mother, call her Virgin,
Happy Mother, Virgin blest
She is mighty to deliver.
Call her, trust her lovingly.
When the tempest rages round thee,
She will calm the troubled sea.
Gifts of heaven she has given,
Noble Lady, to our race.
She, the Queen, who decks her subjects
With the light of God's own grace
Sing, my tongue, the Virgin's trophies
Who for us her Maker bore.
For the curse of old inflicted,
Peace and blessing to restore.
Sing in songs of peace unending,
Sing the world's majestic Queen.
Weary not nor faint in telling.
All the gifts she gives to men
RACCOLTA DE AVE MARIA IN CORONA
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HAIL, White
Lily, of the ever-peaceful and glorious Trinity!
Hail, Vermilion Rose, the delight of Heaven, of whom the King of
Heaven was born and by whose milk He was nourished! Do thou feed our souls
with the effusions of thy Divine influences.
Prayer of St. Gertrude the Great
MY QUEEN! MY
MOTHER!
I give thee all myself, and to show my
devotion to thee, I consecrate to thee my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart,
my entire self.
Wherefore, O loving Mother, as I am thine own, keep
me, defend me, as thy property and possession.
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