Dedicated to Our Lady

Painting by Andrea Mantegna.

Fr. Andrew Grace has such a love for our blessed Mother. He is a true Marian priest. Picture this: A car full of kids and two moms and a priest dressed for surfing, piling out when we arrived at the beach. The first thing Fr. Grace did was to call us all over to him and he started the recitation of the Angelus, right there in the parking lot, with people all around us.

The next day at noon, he related a story about how a girl asked one of the visionaries (from Medjugorje I believe) to greet our Lady for her. The visionary told her that our Lady said that the best way to greet her was through the Angelus and it is with that prayer that our Lady greets us back.

The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary:
And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.

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.

Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy word.

Hail Mary . . .

And the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us.

Hail Mary . . .

Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray:

Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord.

Amen.

"Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you" (Lk 1:28)

"Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb"
(Lk 1:42).