the Hail Mary was added. The next step was the Marian Psalter, i.e. 150 Hail Marys (without the Our Father). In order to avoid empty and mechanical recitation the Psalter was reduced to fifty Hail ...

1. The Complete Rosary is a prayer comprising 200 Hail Marys divided into 20 decades, each of which serves to meditate on a mystery of Christ and Mary. All decades are preceded by an Our Father and ...

Instead of the Tagalog-based "Aba Ginoong Maria," the newly approved text is bannered as "Ave Maria," like in the Latin version.

The Rosary is a centuries-old way of praying ... On each of the ten small beads, say a Hail Mary. Then pray the Glory Be. Each decade is a contemplation of the life of our Lord, witnessed ...

Rosary takes us to the heart of the faith The ... We could say that in the Our Father and Hail Mary, we find a synthesis in which a dynamic, effective transmission of the faith passes through ...

The new 'Ave Maria' is not meant to replace the existing 'Aba Ginoong Maria,' says the secretary-general of the Catholic ...