Devotion of the Three Hail Marys

Short story

It was revealed to Saint Matilda of Hackeborn, a Benedictine nun who died in 1298, as a sure means of obtaining the grace of a good death. Our Lady said to her: “If you want to obtain this grace, recite Tre Ave Maria every day, to thank the SS. Trinity of the privileges with which he enriched me. With the first you will thank God the Father of the Power that he has given me, and by virtue of it you will ask that I assist you in the hour of death. With the second you will thank God the Son for having communicated his wisdom to me, so that I know the SS. Trinity more than all Saints. For it you will ask me that at the hour of death you lighten your soul with the lights of faith and remove from you any ignorance of error. With the third you will thank the Holy Spirit for having filled me so much with love and goodness that after God I am the most tender and merciful. For this incomparable goodness you will ask me that in the hour of your death I will fill your soul with the gentleness of divine love and thus change the pains of death for you in sweetness.

At the end of the last century and in the first two decades of the present day, the devotion of the Three Hail Marys spread rapidly in various countries of the world for the zeal of a French Capuchin, Fr Giovanni Battista di Blois, assisted by the missionaries.

It became a universal practice when Leo XIII granted indulgences and prescribed that the Celebrant recite the Three Hail Marys after the Holy Mass with the people. This prescription lasted until Vatican II.

Pope John XXIII and Paul VI gave a special blessing to those who propagate it. Numerous Cardinals and Bishops gave impetus to the spread.

Many Saints were propagators of it. St. Alfonso Maria de 'Liquori, as a preacher, confessor and writer, did not cease to inculcate the good practice. He wanted everyone to adopt it.

St. John Bosco highly recommended it to his young people. Blessed Pio of Pietrelcina was also a zealous propagator. St. John B. de Rossi, who spent up to ten, twelve hours every day in the ministry of confessions, attributed the conversion of obstinate sinners to the daily recitation of the Three Hail Marys.

Practice:

Pray prayerfully every day like this:

Mary, Mother of Jesus and my Mother, defend me from the Evil One in life and in the hour of death

by the Power that the Eternal Father granted you
Ave Maria…

by the Wisdom that the divine Son granted you.
Ave Maria…

for the Love that the Holy Spirit has granted you.

Holy Mary…

Other form:

Another form in which pious practice can be recited:

To thank the Father of Almighty given to Mary:

Holy Mary…

To thank the Son for having given Mary such a science and wisdom to surpass that of all the Angels and Saints and for having surrounded her with such glory that it made her similar to a Sun that illuminates all of Paradise:

Holy Mary…

To thank the Holy Spirit for igniting the most ardent flames of His Love in Mary and for making her so good and so benign as to be, after God, the best and most merciful:

Holy Mary…

Revelation of Santa Geltrude:

On an eve of the Annunziata Santa Geltrude singing the Ave Maria in chorus he saw it spring

suddenly from the Heart of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, as three

jets which entered the Heart of the Most Holy Mary went back to their source:

and I heard a voice that said to her: After the Power of the Father, the Wisdom of the Son, Tenderness

merciful of the Holy Spirit, nothing is comparable to Power, Wisdom and

Merciful tenderness of Mary.

The Saint also knew that this outpouring of the heart of the Trinity into the heart of Mary,

it takes place every time a soul devoutly recites the Ave Maria; outpouring that for

the ministry of the virgin spreads like beneficial dew on the Angels and Saints.

Furthermore, the spiritual treasures mentioned in each soul that says the Hail Mary

the Incarnation of the Son of God has already enriched her.

I. Hail, o Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. You are blessed among all women

and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God from the Father

exalted with the magnificence of his omnipotence above all creatures and rendered by him

very powerful, please assist me at the hour of my death, chasing me with the

your blessing every adverse power. Pray for us sinners, now and in the hour

of our death. So be it.

II. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. You are blessed among all women

and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, with the filled Son

with the excellence of his inscrutable wisdom of so much knowledge and clarity, as above

all the Saints you have been able to know more about the SS. Trinity, I pray you that in the hour

of my death have to illustrate my soul with the ray of faith so that it cannot

to be perverted neither by error nor by ignorance. Pray for us sinners, now and

in the hour of our death. So be it.

III. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. You are blessed among all women

and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, by the Holy Spirit

fully showered with the sweetness of his love, so that after God you are there

sweetest and most kind above all, I beg you that in the hour of my death you impetrize me

the infusion of the sweetness of divine love, so that every sweetest bitterness towards me

make yourself. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. So be it.