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Show 246: The Ave Maria or Hail Mary · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: Hey, you're welcome to this week's show. Probably gonna do
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sort of a short showed this week because the pair
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pollen and the wisteria poland is getting to me like
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crazy and my voice is barely hanging in there. So
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let's pick up where we left off last time, the
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questions and answers from radio replies, and then we're going
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to get into the topic of prayer and we're going
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to talk about the hell maryer ave Maria, so it
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should be a very interesting one. The person asks, I
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heard you say that Christ is offered in the Eucharist
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as the sacrifice of the New Law. And they said,
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that is true. That offering of Christ and the Eucharist
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is known as the Mass, and the Mass is the
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sacrifice of the New Law. And the person responds, there's
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only one sacrifice for Christians out of Calvary, and they answer,
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the sacrifice of Calvary was a sacrifice not only for Christians,
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but of the whole human race from that moment of
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the first sin. Whilst the death of Christ upon the
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cross was the one great, absolute sacrifice, the Mass is
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a true and relative sacrifice, applying to the souls of men,
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the fruits of Calvary. Anyway, the doctrine which denies that
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the Mass is the true sacrifice in the Christian dispensation
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is simply anti scriptural. Person asks, how do you prove
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that the sacrifice of the Mass is scriptural? And they answer,
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by religion. We honor God, and the chief and highest
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form of worship has ever been by offering of sacrifice. Now,
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God demanded continual sacrifices of various kinds from the very
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beginning of the human race until the coming of Christ,
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and it is not likely that the Christian and more
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perfect religion would lack a continual and regular offering of
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the highest act of religion. All the various sacrifices of
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the Jewish dispensation represented and prefigured the sacrifice of Christ
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on Calvary and derived all their value by anticipation from
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his death upon the cross. And if the Jews had
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to honor God by regular sacrifice, so two must Christians
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in the higher and more perfect law. But there is
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this difference. While the Jewish sacrifices where anticipation of the
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sacrifice of Christ's Calvary, the Mass is a recollection and
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constant application of that one great sacrifice to the souls
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of man. I'm going to sip water here. Person says,
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it is little use you're telling us what ought to
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be unless you can prove it to us as a
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fact from scripture, and the answer I can do so.
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The Old Testament predicts that Christ will offer a true
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sacrifice to God in bread and wine. That is, he
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will use those elements, and this prediction is every bit
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as clear as the prediction that He will also offer
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himself upon the cross. Thus, Genesis Is fourteen eighteen tells
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us that Milkisa day king of Salem, was a priest
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and that he offered sacrifice in the form of bread
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and wine. Now Psalm's one nine predicts most clearly that
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Christ will be a priest according to the order of
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Melchiza Dik, offering a sacrifice under the forms of bread
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and wine. We must then look for some form of
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sacrifice differing from that of Calvary, for the crucifixion was
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not a sacrifice in the forms of bread and wine.
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You may say that Christ prefer fulfilled the prediction at
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the Last Supper, but that the right was not to
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be continued. However, that itmits that the right was truly
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sacrificial and the fact is that it has been continued
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in exactly the same sense it was predicted that it
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would continue. After foretelling the rejection of the Jewish priesthood,
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the prophet Malachi predicts a new sacrifice to be offered
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in every place, from the rising of the sun even
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to the going down. My name is great among the gentiles,
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and every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered
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to my name clean oblation Malachi one ten through eleven.
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The sacrifice of Calvary took place in one place only.
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We must look for a sacrifice apart from Calvary, once
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offered in every place under the forms of bread and wine.
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The Mass is at sacrifice. Person asks, were all the
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conditions of a sacrifice verified in the Last Supper? And
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are they still verifying the mass? And they say yes
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to both questions. For the true sacrifice, we need a priest,
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an altar, a victim, and a covenant with God. Christ
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was truly the great high priest, and he gave the
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power to priests. He gave the power of priest to
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his apostles, commissioned them to do repeatedly as he himself
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had done. Their presence. Do this, he said, and commemorations
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me the power was to persevere the church, even as
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Malachi had predicted, as victim, Christ offered himself at the
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Last Supper, taking bread and wine. He said, this is
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my body, this is my blood. And as often as
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you show eat this bread and drink this chalish, you
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shall show the death of the Lord until he come first.
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Corinthians eleven four twenty six. The separate forms of consecration
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represent the separation of his body and blood when he was,
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when he ratified the sacrifice by his death on the
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cross the next day. The victim then is Christ on
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the appearance of bread and wine, representatively separated. This does
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not interfere with the value of cavalry, for Christ's real
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death occurred there and without it this representation representative function
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would be useless. Continually through the ages, the sacrifice of
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Mass has been offered daily in the Catholic Church, and
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is today offered in every place, from the rising of
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the sun even to its going down, as Malachi predicted.
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As for the alder years after the death of Christ,
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Saint Paul said, we have an altar whereof they have
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no power to eat, who serve at the tabernacle Hebrews
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thirteen ten. Finally, there is the Covenant of God. This
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chalice is the new Testament in my blood, said Christ
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one Corinthians, eleven twenty five. It had legal documentary value
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in the side of God. The Catholic Church alone fulfills
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the scripture in the sacrifice of the Mass. All right, boy,
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it is all I can do to stifle look off.
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Right now, let's get to follows Varraga, and what did
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he say about the Ave Maria. Well, he says, the
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principal prayer to the Mother of God, which are in
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common use, are one the Ave Maria or the angelical
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salutation to the Angelus, and through the Rosary for the
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Litany of Loretto and the Salve Regina. Catholics almost invariably
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add the Ave Maria to the Paternostra. It has always
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been customary among Christians to imitate the example of the
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archangel Gabriel and to salute our blessed Lady. In his words,
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the devotion to Mary was not introduced by the decree
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of a council, nor the past of any pope. At
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all times the faithful have been wont to pray pay
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their devout homage to the Queen of Heaven. She herself
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foresaw this would be, so that all generations would call
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her blessed Luke one forty eight. The ave Maria is
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also called the angelical salutation because it commences with the
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words of the Archangel. The ave Maria consists of three parts,
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the salutation of the Archangel, the greeting of Elizabeth, and
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the words of the Church. The salutation of the Archangel
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runs thus, helpful of grace Lords, with thee blessed art
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thou among women Luke one eight. The greeting of Elizabeth
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is this, blessed art thou among women, and blesses the
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fruit of thy womb verse forty two. The remaining words
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were added by the Church. The first and second parts
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are an inscription of praise, when the third part is
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the supplication. The first and second parts were recited by
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the faithful in the earliest ages of Christianity. In their
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present form, while the concluding words were varied, Saint Anthonausius
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used to add pray for us patron and lady, Queen
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and Mother of God. From the time of Luther, it
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was customary to end with the words Holy Marry Mother
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of God, Pray from us the final clause. There we
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are the final clause now in use states from the
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reign of Pope Saint Pius of fifth, who directed to
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be printed in all authorized prayer books after the heretic
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and Nestorius denied the right of the blested version of
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the title Mother of God. The ave Maria was more
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frequently on the lips of Christians said in earlier times,
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and when in the thirteenth century other sects aeros who
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refused to give the saints the veneration due to them,
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the devotion to our Lady assumed a more and more
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prominent place, and from that time forth the ave Maria
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became an invariable adjunctant adjunct to the pattern noster in
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all public services of the Church. The ave Maria is
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the most potent prayer and one which is full of meaning.
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The ave Maria is especially efficacious in time of temptation.
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Many saints recommend the faithful to recite it when evil
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thoughts assail them. By the words, Hell, Mary, we testify
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our reverence for the Mother of God. It is the
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part of the inferior to subalute. The superior Mary is
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the mother of the King of Kings. She is the
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queen of angels and saints, and yet our mother also.
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The highest adoration of angels and men is due her,
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and therefore we ought reverently to salute her. The words
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Ave Maria indicate that Mary is a second and happier Eve.
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She is the mother of mankind. Is Ave is a
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play on the name Eva, the order of the letters
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being reversed. Thus the words of the archangels seem to
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signify Eve was full of sin, Thou art full of grace.
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The devils with e, God is with thee. Eve was
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cursed among women, Thou art blessed among women. Eve gave
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birth to the cursed Cain, whereas the fruit of thy
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womb is the blessed Jesus. The words full of Grace
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had this signification Thou hast received the graces of the
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Holy Spirit in a higher degree than all other saints together.
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As the moon gives more light than all the hosts
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of the stars, so the Mother of God possesses the
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supernatural light of the Holy Spirit to a greater extent
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than all the saints. The full plenitude of grace was
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pulled out on her, whereas it was bestowed but partially
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on all the other saints. So richly was Mary endowed
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with grace that she appeared approaches more nearly than any
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other being with grace that let me see if I
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get that right. So richly was Mary endowed with grace
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that she approaches more nearly than any other being. The
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author of all graces, God might have created a greater heaven,
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a greater Earth, but a greater Mother than Mary, he
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could not create. The name Mary means sea. She is
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indeed an ocean of grace. The Angel said to her,
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thou hast found grace with God. Only that which was
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lost can be found. Mary had not lost grace. Therefore
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she found what man had lost. Let those who have,
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by their sins lost the grace of God hasten to marry,
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that they may recover it at her hands. The words
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the Lord is with thee have this signification. Thou art
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united body and soul with God. In the closest union
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in the Temple of Jerusalem, which was outwardly a dazzling whiteness,
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and inwardly overlay with gold, God was continually present in
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a luminous cloud. The temple was a type of the
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Mother of God, for in her the incarnate God dwelt,
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making her the temple of the Deity. In celebrating Holy Mass,
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the priest turned seven times to the people with the
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words dominus fubiscum, thus wishing them the closest union with
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the Godhead through the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit
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of old. Such forms of greeting were God be with you,
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basically we're customary. Saul made use of similar words when
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dismissing David before his contest with Goliath, First Kings seventeen
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thirty seven. David, when dying, addressed to Solomon in the
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same manner. Tobias did the same when his son was
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starting his journey. The words blessed art thou among women,
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and blesses the fruit of thy womb Jesus have this
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signification Thou art the most blessed among women, because thy
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child Jesus was supremely blessed. As a tree is considered
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good if it bears good fruit, so Merry is lauded.
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For the sake of her son. She is a tree
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of life in paradise. In Christ is the fruit of
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that tree. All the angels of God adore the child
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that was born of her Hebrews one six mothers who
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have had a good children have always been called blessed,
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which since witnessed the woman who, after listening to our
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Lord's discourse, lifted her voice to extol his mother Luke
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eleven twenty seven. It is not because Mary was blessed
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that her child was blessed, but the contrary, He, the
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authorn source of all grace, filled her with benediction. Christ
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is not said to be blessed among men as Mary
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is blessed among women, because He is the creator of
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all men and cannot be placed in comparison with his creatures.
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When Judith appeared before King Ozias after slaying Holofernies, he
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declared to her. He declared her to be blessed among
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all women on earth Judith, thirteen twenty three. How much
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more does Mary merit this praise since who lost my place?
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Since she cooperated in the redemption of the whole human race.
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Both the archangel and Saint Elizabeth addressed the same words
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to her to indicate that she was to receive homage
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alike from angels and men. At the close of the Ave, Maria,
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we entreat the Mother of God to pray for us
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in the hour of our death. For then, above all
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other times, we have most need of assistance at the
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hour of death. And additional, in addition to physical suffering,
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we shall perhaps have to sustain violent assaults of temptation.
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How vehemently exclaimed Saint Bonaventure. Does the devil attack a
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man in his last hour for this reason, because so
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short a time is left for him to accomplish his work.
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The uncertainty of our salvation also causes us terrible anxiety
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at the hour of our death. In all these tribulations,
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Mary is our surest helper, for she is the help
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of the sick, the comfort of the afflicted, the refuge
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of sinners. When she appears beside the dying, all evil
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enemies take flight. Many a one who was developed to
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the Mother of God owed it to her that he
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was reconciled with God on his death bed, and that
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he had the last sacraments or receive the superman other
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supernatural aid. She even appeared in person to several saints. Mary,
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says Saint Jerome assists her faithful servants in death. She
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goes to meet them on their way to heaven. She
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prevails upon the judge of all men to give them
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a merciful sentence. We speak of ourselves as sinners to
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render the Mother of God more inclined to listen to us.
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Mary is most ready to invest herself on behalf of sinners.
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She knows what it costs her divine son to redeem
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mankind and restore to her fallen race the graces we
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had lost. It would seem as if Mary did not
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estimate at its true value. It would seem as if
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Mary did not estimate at its true value, the sacrifice
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of Christ, if she had no great love for sinners.
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There is no sinner fallen so low that the Mother
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of God would not willingly befriend him were he to
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invoke her aid with a real intention to amend. God
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has committed judgment to his son, raising mercy to his
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mother's hands. You know I'm gonna leave it there because
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I am literally about to lose my voice. We'll get
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into the Angelus next week. All have a great week.
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Get ready for Easter. This is you know, this is
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Holy Week. I mean this is we're coming up on it. Anyway,
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this is the most important time of the year for Catholics,
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so be sure to pray your Rosary and you're divine
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mercy chaplain and go to confession and Mass, and I'll
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talk to you next time.