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The Hail Mary (Latin: Ave Maria) or Angelical salutation[1][2] is a traditional Catholic prayer addressing Mary, the mother of Jesus. The prayer is based on two biblical passages featured in the Gospel of Luke: the Angel Gabriel 's visit to Mary (the Annunciation) and Mary's subsequent visit to Elisabeth, the mother of John the Baptist (the ...
Main article: History of the Lord's Prayer in English. Lord's Prayer from the 1845 illuminated book of The Sermon on the Mount, designed by Owen Jones. There are several different English translations of the Lord's Prayer from Greek or Latin, beginning around AD 650 with the Northumbrian translation.
The Catholic Church's magisterium has identified four teachings about Mary as dogmas of faith. These include belief in her virginal conception of Jesus, taught by the First Council of Nicaea in 325. The Council of Ephesus in 431 applied to her the description " Mother of God ", (Theotokos).
The Regina Caeli ("Queen of Heaven") is an anthem of the Catholic Church which replaces the Angelus during Eastertide, the fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday. [ 24 ] It is named for its opening words in Latin. Of unknown authorship, the anthem has been traced back to the twelfth century.
This statement is traditionally called "The Word of Relationship" and in it Jesus entrusts Mary, his mother, into the care of "the disciple whom Jesus loved". [1] Jesus also addresses his mother as "woman" in John 2:4. [23] Although this sounds dismissive in English, the Greek word is a term of respect or tenderness.
The Council decreed that Mary is the Mother of God because her son Jesus is one person who is both God and man, divine and human. [28] This doctrine is widely accepted by Christians in general, and the term "Mother of God" had already been used within the oldest known prayer to Mary, the Sub tuum praesidium, which dates to around 250 AD. [149]
A Marian feast on 15 August is celebrated by the Church of England as a non-specific feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a feast called by the Scottish Episcopal Church simply "Mary the Virgin", [49] [50] [51] and in the US-based Episcopal Church it is observed as the feast of "Saint Mary the Virgin: Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ", [52] while ...
Recorded prayers. The gospels record words that Jesus spoke in prayer: Thanking God for his revelation (Matthew 11:25, Luke 10:21) Before the raising of Lazarus (John 11:41-42) "Father, glorify your name" (John 12:28) His prayer in John 17. Three prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane. Three prayers on the cross: