"On the Meaning of Hail, Full of Grace"
Father Matthew C. Dallman, Obl.S.B. preaching on the Feast of Saint Mary the Virgin and Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Assumption/Dormition) for the Parish of Tazewell County.
“Most highly favored, Lady,” is how we shared in the praise of Mary at the beginning of Mass. We did so, in the words of the hymn, as "Christian folk through the world will ever say." These words refer to the angelic greeting of the archangel Gabriel to Mary, “Hail, Mary, full of grace.” Biblical experts have struggled for centuries as to how to properly translate the original Greek of the angelic greeting in a way…
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