when u go to chuch to confesss ur sins what does it mean when the preist says e.g 3 our fathers and a dozen hailo marys,
2006-06-19 23:03:20 · 7 answers · asked by addicted to this 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hail Mary and Our Father are prayers you should really now this if you are going to mass.
2006-06-19 23:10:29 · answer #1 · answered by red lyn 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
say the prayer our father 3 times and the hail mary 12 times
2006-06-20 06:07:14 · answer #2 · answered by bord_gal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hail mary: A prayer based on the greetings of Gabriel and Saint Elizabeth to the Virgin Mary. Also called Ave Maria. it is a traditional Roman Catholic prayer calling for the intercession of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
our father: Lord's Prayer or Our Father, the principal Christian prayer that Jesus in the New Testament (Mat. 6.9–13; Luke 11.2–4) taught his followers, beginning, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.” It summarizes Jesus' teaching and stresses the concern of honoring God before that of meeting one's own needs. It also reveals Jesus' sense of a filial relationship with God. After the Second Vatican Council, Roman Catholics added a version of the doxology (“For thine is the kingdom,” etc.) to prayer when used in the Mass; the doxolgy was already current in Protestant liturgies and is present in some manuscripts of Matthew. In Latin the prayer is called Paternoster. It also occurs in the Didache. The first three phrases of the prayer parallel the opening words of the ancient Jewish Kaddish.
2006-06-20 06:34:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you are a catholic that is old enough to go to confession and you dont know what the Our Father & The Hail Mary is you are having a laugh both my boys when they were 5 years old knew these prayers
2006-06-22 14:07:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are types of prayers. Our Father is the Lord's prayer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord's_Prayer and Hail Mary is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Mary
2006-06-20 06:08:03 · answer #5 · answered by Susan G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are Catholic prayers. When you go to confession, you make your confession to the priest and he doles out your "penance" in the form of these prayers. After you make your confession and do your penance your sins are supposed to be forgiven.
2006-06-20 06:12:30 · answer #6 · answered by Vivreici 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's akin to voodoo
2006-06-20 06:42:25 · answer #7 · answered by changRdie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋