Devotion to Mary: history to the greeting prayer

HISTORY OF THE "GREETING PRAYER"

iA shepherdess of Bavaria was on 20/06/1646 with her flock grazing.

There was an image of the Madonna in front of which the girl had promised that she would recite nine Rosaries every day.

There was a great heat over that region and the cattle did not allow her time to pray. Our dear Lady then appeared to her and promised to teach her a prayer that would have the same value as the recitation of nine Rosaries.

He was commissioned by the Lady to teach it to others.

The shepherdess, however, kept the prayer and the message to herself until her death. His soul, after death, was unable to have peace; God gave her the grace to manifest herself and she said that she would not find peace if she did not reveal this prayer to men, since her soul was wandering.

Thus he managed to achieve eternal peace.
We report her below recalling that, recited three times after a Rosary, corresponds to the equivalent commitment of nine Rosaries:

"GREETING PRAYER"

(to be repeated 3 times after the Rosary)

God greets you, o Maria. God greets you, o Maria. God greets you, o Maria.
O Maria, I greet you 33.000 (thirty-three thousand) times,
as the archangel Saint Gabriel greeted you.
It is joy for your heart and also for my heart that the archangel brought you the greeting of Christ.
Ave, o Maria ...

Today Thursday meditation

The hell.
1. Hell is a place destined by divine Justice to punish with eternal torture those who die in mortal sin. The first punishment that the damned suffer in hell is the pain of the senses, which are tormented by a fire that burns horribly without ever diminishing. Fire in the eyes, fire in the mouth, fire in every part. Each sense suffers its own pain. The eyes are blinded by smoke and darkness, terrified by the sight of demons and the other damned. The ears, day and night, hear only continuous screams, cries and blasphemies. The smell suffers greatly from the stench of that sulfur and burning bitumen which suffocates. The mouth is tormented by very ardent thirst and canine hunger: Et famem patiéntur ut canes. The rich Dives in the midst of those torments raised his gaze to the sky and asked for a small drop of water by the greatest grace, to temper the heat of his tongue, and even a drop of water was denied him. Hence those unfortunates, burned with thirst, devoured by hunger, tormented by fire, cry, scream and despair. Oh hell, hell, how unhappy are those who fall into your depths! What do you say, my son? if you had to die right now, where would you go? If now you can't hold a finger over the flame of a candle, if you can't suffer even a spark of fire on your hand without screaming, then how can you hold up in those flames for all eternity?

2. Consider also, my son, the remorse that the conscience of the damned will feel. They will suffer hell in memory, in intellect; in the will. They will continually remember why they got lost, that is, for wanting to give vent to some passion: this memory is that worm that never dies: Vermis eorum non moritur. They will remember the time that was given to them by God to save themselves again from perdition, the good examples of their companions, the purposes made and not carried out. They will think back to the sermons they heard, the warnings of the confessor, the good inspirations they had to leave sin, and seeing that there is no more remedy, they will send desperate screams. The will then will never have anything of what it wants anymore, on the contrary it will suffer all evils. Finally, the intellect will know the great good it has lost. The soul separated from the body, presenting itself to the divine tribunal, glimpses the beauty of God, knows all his goodness, almost contemplates for an instant the splendor of Paradise, perhaps even hears the sweet songs of the Angels and saints. What pain, seeing that everything has been lost forever! Who can ever resist such torments?

3. My son, who now do not care to lose your God and Heaven, you will know your blindness when you will see so many of your companions more ignorant and poorer than you triumph and enjoy in the kingdom of heaven, and was cursed by God you will be cast out away from that blessed homeland, from the enjoyment of Him, from the company of the Blessed Virgin and the Saints. Come on then, do penance; do not wait until there is no more time: give yourself to God. Who knows that this is not the last call, and that if you do not correspond to it, God will not abandon you and do not let yourself fall down in those eternal torments! Deh! My Jesus, deliver me from hell! A poenis inférni free me, Domine!