The Handbook of Prayers Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To you do we cry, poor, banished children of Eve. To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and ...

In the second, the soul repeats the greeting and, in the name of all people, calls to holy Mary, whom we beg to look upon us with eyes of mercy and to love us with her son, Jesus. In the third ...

What can one say about the assumption of Mary? There is no mention of it in the Scriptures. That, of course, does not invalidate the feast. It simply means that its full theological meaning is ...