The hail mary is not in the Bible. That is a repititious prayer that was made up by the Catholic church. They took different refences about Mary in the Bible & combined them to create a prayer.
2007-03-29 11:02:55
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answered by Luv&Rockets 4
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It doesn't. It also doesn't say Incarnation, Bible or Trinity.
Do you have a clue what the Hail Mary is even about? From your 'question', I would say no.
It's a meditation of the life of Jesus Christ - gee, isn't that just terrible??
When Catholics recite the twelve prayers that form a decade of the rosary, they meditate on the mystery associated with that decade. If they merely recite the prayers, whether vocally or silently, they’re missing the essence of the rosary. It isn’t just a recitation of prayers, but a meditation on the grace of God. Critics, not knowing about the meditation part, imagine the rosary must be boring, uselessly repetitious, meaningless, and their criticism carries weight if you reduce the rosary to a formula. Christ forbade meaningless repetition (Matt. 6:7), but the Bible itself prescribes some prayers that involve repetition. Look at Psalms 136, which is a litany (a prayer with a recurring refrain) meant to be sung in the Jewish Temple. In the psalm the refrain is "His mercy endures forever." Sometimes in Psalms 136 the refrain starts before a sentence is finished, meaning it is more repetitious than the rosary, though this prayer was written directly under the inspiration of God.
It is the meditation on the mysteries that gives the rosary its staying power. The Joyful Mysteries are these: the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38), the Visitation (Luke 1:40-56), the Nativity (Luke 2:6-20), the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (Luke 2:21-39), and the Finding of the child Jesus in the Temple (Luke 2:41-51).
Then come the Sorrowful Mysteries: the Agony in the Garden (Matt. 26:36-46), the Scourging (Matt. 27:26), the Crowning with Thorns (Matt. 27:29), the Carrying of the Cross (John 19:17), and the Crucifixion (Luke 23:33-46).
The final Mysteries are the Glorious: the Resurrection (Luke 24:1-12), the Ascension (Luke 24:50-51), the Descent of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-4)
2007-03-29 17:26:25
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answered by SpiritRoaming 7
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The first part comes from the Gospel, when The Angel appears before Mary to announce that she has been chosen as the mother of the Messiah. The Angel greets Mary with these words "Hail Mary Full of Grace...". I believe the second part "Holy Mary Mother of God..." was composed by early Christians after Mary was taken to Heaven.
2007-03-29 17:22:27
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answered by Draken_Schadel 2
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As the following article shows from Scripture,
there is no such thing within the holy Scriptures.
The Bible's Viewpoint ...
Should You Pray to the Virgin Mary?
- “Teach Us How to Pray”
- What About the Rosary?
- Respect for Mary
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2005/9/8a/article_01.htm
2007-03-30 02:25:42
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answered by Anonymous
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While one may find bits of the prayer scattered throughout the Gospels, prayer to Mary is not in the Bible. We are to pray only to God. The scriptures tell us that there is only ONE intercessor, and that is Jesus. Mary is not an intercessor. Catholics assume, falsely, that Mary ascended to heaven. In reality, she is dead. Don't get me wrong, she was a good, godly woman, but regardless of what Catholics want to believe, Mary had sex with her husband, had other children (as it states in the Bible), and died. Nowhere does John even hint that Mary ascended to heaven, and he was her caretaker. If she had, he would have mentioned it. However, he didn't, so we can reasonable assume she died at some point. Praying to Mary, then, would be a sin,not only because we are commanded to pray only to God and to no one else, but because the Bible expressly forbids contacting the dead.
2007-03-29 17:35:31
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answered by James F 3
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Top Contributer has given a pretty thorough explantion of the first two of the three sections of the "Ave Maria".
The third (final) section,
"Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death. Amen"
first appeared about 1440 with Bernadine of Sienna and was fixed in its present form by Pope Pius V in the Breviary of 1568.
2007-03-29 17:44:58
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answered by pingraham@sbcglobal.net 5
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The prayer is not in the Bible. The Bible says that Jesus said 'that no man(woman)can come unto the Father, but by Me(Jesus).' John 14:6 KJV
2007-03-29 17:31:22
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answered by Anonymous
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It is not there. You won't find it in the Bible.
We are told to worship God and pray only to him through Christ.
Mary was simply the vessel for Jesus' birth. She was not a saint nor was she any better than any other disciple or follower of Christ. We have NO biblical authority to hold her above or equal to Jesus or God.
2007-03-29 17:30:58
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answered by TG 4
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Instead of quoting the whole thing i'll just say its from Luke read my source
2007-03-29 17:21:00
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answered by luvv2rock 3
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Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
Luke 1:28 "And coming to her, he said, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you."
The Greek kecharitomene means favored by grace, graced. Its tense suggests a permanent state of being "highly favored," thus full of grace. Charity, the divine love within us, comes from the same root. God is infinite Goodness, infinite Love. Mary is perfect created goodness, filled to the limit of her finite being with grace or charity.
Blessed art thou among women
Luke 1:41-42a "When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you among women..."
Luke 1:48 "For he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed."
Among all women is a way to say the highest/greatest etc. of a group in Semitic languages (these words would likely have been spoken in Aramaic). Mary is being called the greatest of all women, greater than Ruth, greater than Sarah, greater than EVE! Since Eve was created immaculate (without original sin), Mary must have been conceived immaculate. And, although Eve fell into sin by her own free will, Mary must have corresponded to God's grace and remained sinless. She could not otherwise be greater than Eve. Thus, as the Fathers of the Church unanimously assert, Mary is the New Eve who restores womanhood to God's original intention and cooperates with the New Adam, her Son, for the Redemption of the world.
Blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus
Luke 1:42b "and blessed is the fruit of your womb."
Jesus is Mary's fruit. Good fruit does not come from anything but a good tree (Mt. 7:17-18)! The all-holy Son of God could not be the fruit of any other tree than the Immaculate Virgin.
Holy Mary, Mother of God
Luke 1:43 "And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
Kyrios is the Greek word used by the Jews in the Septuagint Bible (Greek translation) for Yhwh, the Divine Name of God. In her greeting of Mary, Elizabeth is saying: "How is it that the mother of my God should come to me." Against the heresies of the 4th and 5th centuries which tried to split the Person of Jesus into two, divine and human, denying one or the other, the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD proclaimed Mary Theotokos (God-bearer, i.e. mother of God). Jesus is a single Person, a Divine Person, the 2nd Person of the Most Holy Trinity. To be mother of the Person Jesus is to be mother of a Person who is God. Mary's title protects this truth against errors which emphasize or deny, either the divinity or humanity of the Lord.
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Luke 2:35 "...and you yourself a sword will pierce so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."
John 2:5 "His mother said to the servers, "Do whatever he tells you."
Mary sees a need and appeals to Her Son to satisfy it. He does. We turn to Mary to ask her to intercede with her Son in our daily spiritual and material needs, but especially at the hour of our death. At that moment our salvation hangs in the balance as the devil makes his final foray to deter us from the path to God (Rev. 2:10). It is not surprising, therefore, that both the Hail Mary and the Our Father conclude with an appeal to be delivered from the evil one.
2007-03-29 17:21:16
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answered by Anonymous
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