Posts Tagged ‘Hail Mary’

When asked… how do we dedicate to Mary?

St John Berchmans replied in the following remarkable words:

‘Any devotion, however small, provided it is constants.’

These words came from this holy young man as he was dying and his friends had asked him to tell them what devotion they could perform which would be most agreeable to our Blessed Lady.

And in these words, St.  Alphonsus di Liguori explains that the Hail Mary is the most pleasing to Our Lady…

“This angelical salutation is most pleasing to the ever-blessed Virgin; for, whenever she hears it, it would seem as if the joy which she experienced when St. Gabriel announced to her that she was the chosen Mother of God, was renewed in her; and with this object in view, we should often salute her with the Hail Mary.”

St. Louis de Montfort said,

“We must choose among all the devotions to the Blessed Virgin the one which will lead us more surely to dying to self.”

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.