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The Secret of the Rosary

her sisters in religion and said to her: "If I were allowed to go back into my body, to have the
chance of saying just one single Hail Mary even if I said it quickly and without great fervor I would
gladly go through the sufferings that I had
during my last illness all over again, in order to gain the merit of this prayer." (Blessed Alan de
la Roche, De Dignitate Psalterii, Chapter LXIX) This is all the more compelling cause she had been
bedridden and had suffered agonizing pains for several years before she died.
 
Michel de Lisle, Bishop of Salubre, who was a disciple and coworker of Blessed Alan's in the
reestablishment of the Holy Rosary said that the Angelic Salutation is the remedy for all ills
that we suffer as long as we say it devoutly in honor of Our Lady.

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The Hail Mary Explanation

ARE YOU in the miserable state of sin? Then call on the divine Mary and say to her: Ave, which
means "I salute thee with the most profound respect, thou who art without sin" and she will deliver
you from the evil of your sins.
Are you groping in the darkness of ignorance and error? Go to Mary and say to her: Hail Mary;
which means "Hail thou who art bathed in the light of the Sun of Justice"-and she will give you
some of her light.
Have you strayed from the path leading to heaven? Then
call on Mary, for her name means "Star of the Sea, the North Star which guides the ships of our
souls during the voyage of this life," and she will guide you to the harbor of eternal salvation:
Are you in sorrow? Turn to Mary, for her name means also "Sea of Bitterness which has been filled
with sharp pain in this world but which is now turned into a Sea of the Purest Joy in

the word divine may be used without attributing the nature of divinity to the person or
thing thus qualified. We speak of our own prayers, whether addressed to God or to His saints as a
divine service. The Psalmist speaks of us gods as being gods and sons of the M0ST High; and yet no
one takes offense, because the sense given to the words uttered is understood. Mary may be
called divine because divinely chosen for the divine office of Mother" of a divine Person, Jesus
Christ (Cardinal Vaughan, preface to ''True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary'' by St. Louis de
Montfort).
(Cardinal Vaughan, preface to''Mary'' by St. Louis de Montfort).

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