Hail Mary, full of Grace…☀️🙏🏻

‘When we pray the Rosary, we are gazing into the mysteries of Christ with our Lady.’. (Fr. Hugh Gillespie)

‘Our Lady loves hearing us pray the Hail Mary. Of all the Marian prayers that exist, that is the one most pleasing to her because that is the one by which Heaven spoke, won her heart and filled her with the incarnate Word. When she hears it she recalls the greatness of that moment. Fr. De Montfort highly recommends a certain degree of affection simply for saying the Hail Mary, by itself’. (Fr. Hugh Gillespie)

Wow!! In our beautiful St. Anne’s Holy Rosary group, each and every resident prays a Hail Mary. Some pray a whole decade, others pray a half-decade, while many pray just one Hail Mary. In fact anyone present, staff, visitors, all pray one Hail Mary. 

We offer Mother Mary a rose (Hail Mary) in her honour. Attached to that beautiful rose are the special intentions that burden our hearts. (Thorns). Mother Mary brings our simple bouquet to beautiful Jesus and so for a while, we relax, knowing in our deepest hearts that our cares are in the Best of Hands. Our Blessed Mother has one desire and one desire only, to lead us to intimate union with Her Son, Jesus Christ.

Joe, elderly resident declared one time; ‘Now we have no worries. We can enjoy a free afternoon’. 

What joy it is to know that our beautiful Mother Mary loves the Hail Mary so very much. We had no idea!

Thank you Father Hugh from our deepest hearts.

‘Mary Most Holy, in her simplicity and humility, reflects the beauty of the Triune God, because she fully welcomed Jesus into her life. May she sustain our faith; May she make us worshippers of God and servants of our brothers and sisters.”. (Our late Holy Father, Pope Francis)

Elderly lady told me recently that when her Dad died, more than sixty years ago, she and her siblings were very young. As they sat with their heartbroken Mom around his coffin, my dear Dad came by. He knelt in prayer for a moment before uttering; ‘Let us pray the Rosary for the man of the house’. There and then, elderly lady and I shed tears of gratitude to God for our blessed humble rich lives.

‘The chair of St. Peter was vacant after the death of our dear Pope. We entered into a time where the seat is vacant. Sense of loss! Not a Father on the chair. There’s something missing’. (Father’s homily EWTN). Reminding me of returning home from work after my dear Dad died and witnessing his empty chair. No Dad on the chair. Long years have come and gone and yet that precious memory steadfastly remains fixed in my deepest heart.

‘We were never poor. We just didn’t have any money’. (Johnny Mathis)

‘Beauty takes Truth and Goodness and gives it clothes, gives it form, gives it something we can recognise. Beauty gives us warmth and light’. (Stefan Novinski)

‘Fr. De Montfort highly recommends that we pray this beautiful Magnificat after we have received Holy Communion precisely because that is the first prayer ever said by one who is enclosing God within her. In no small measure when we receive Holy Communion, Christ is within us too. So, who better to teach us how to make a good act of thanksgiving than our Lady who actually offers the original act of thanksgiving for holding the Lord within’. (Fr. Hugh Gillespie)

‘St. Louis Marie De Montfort saw the Rosary as something like spiritual rain. One Hail Mary at a time, softening our hearts so the seed of the word would fall on prepared soil’. (Fr. Hugh Gillespie)