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Miseremini · « **on:** September 16, 2025, 01:40:15 PM »

Church of the Pater Noster

Being the prayer composed by our Lord Himself, and the model of all prayers, the Pater Noster should naturally form a part of the liturgy of the Mass. It occupies the present place, no doubt, for the reason that it was the last prayer taught in the early Church to the catechumens before baptism, because the Church wished them to be imbued with the spirit of faith before imparting to them our Lord’s own prayer. This was done both out of reverence for the prayer and because the prayer is one which embodies all the petitions necessary for salvation and implies all the dispositions which the Christian soul should possess.

This prayer is said during Holy Mass at the part when both priest and people should desire most earnestly that the fruits of the Holy Sacrifice and of Holy Communion may be applied to their souls. In union with our Divine Savior, and thinking of Him as He was dying upon the Cross, we renew our humility and confidence.

The celebrant raises his voice at the Oremus and Pater Noster after the secret prayer of the Canon. During the Canon he has, as it were, entered into the Holy of Holies, there to commune alone with God. This silence may be considered as commemorating those awful hours during which our Lord hung upon the Cross and bore in silence the scoffs and blasphemies of the Jєωιѕн multitude, and silently prayed for all his enemies to His Heavenly Father. The Pater Noster, which contains seven petitions, is recited aloud to remind the faithful of the seven last words which our Savior spoke in a loud voice when hanging on the Cross.

Taken from The Heart of the Mass, available here>>

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The Hail Mary Prayer

The Hail Mary prayer came together slowly. It took more than a thousand years. The earliest version simply added Mary’s name to the message delivered by the angel Gabriel to Mary: “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee” (Luke 1:28).

Around 1050 AD, the words Elizabeth used to greet Mary during the Visitation were added: “Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb” (Luke 1:42).

In 1261, Pope Urban IV added the name of Jesus to the end of Elizabeth’s words.

St. Peter Canisius published the Hail Mary in his 1555 Catechism with almost the entire final petition: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners.”

Eleven years later, the Catechism of the Council of Trent (a work that Canisius was instrumental in creating) included, for the first time, the entire final petition, concluding with the words “now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”

The version of the Hail Mary we pray today was given official approval in 1568.

So I guess when St Dominic prayed the rosary it was just the first part which is how the Anglicans pray the Hail Mary on their rosary.

Author Topic: The Our Father and Hail Mary (Read 156687 times)

Miseremini

The Our Father and Hail Mary