Day 42, GLORIOUS MYSTERIES, Friday October 23

Heaven opened by the practice of the three Hail Marys

Our Lady requested the daily recitation of three Hail Marys, revealing the following to St. Melchtilde:

"The first Hail Mary will be in honor of God the Father, Whose omnipotence raised my soul so high above every other creature that, after God, I have the greatest power in Heaven and on earth. In the hour of your death I will use that power of God the Father to keep any hostile power from you.

"The second Hail Mary will be in honor of God the Son, Who communicated His inscrutable wisdom to me . . . In the hour of your death I will fill your soul with the light of that wisdom so that all the darkness of ignorance and error will be dispelled.

"The third Hail Mary will be in honor of God the Holy Ghost, Who filled my soul with the sweetness of His love and tenderness and mercy . . . In your last hour I will then change the bitterness of death into Divine sweetness and delight."

PROMISE:

During an apparition to St. Gertrude, the Blessed Mother promised, "To any soul who faithfully prays the Three Hail Marys I will appear at the hour of death in a splendor of beauty so extraordinary that it will fill the soul with Heavenly consolation."

ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE BLESSED TRINITY  

With all my heart I praise Thee, Most Holy Virgin

above all Angels and Saints in Paradise, Daughter of

the Eternal Father, and I consecrate to Thee

my soul with all its faculties.

THE HAIL MARY

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee!

Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of

Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

With all my heart I praise Thee, Most Holy Virgin

above all Angels and Saints in Paradise, beloved Mother

of the Son of God, and I consecrate to Thee my body

with all its senses.

Hail Mary, etc.

With all my heart I praise Thee, Most Holy Virgin

above all Angels and Saints in Paradise, beloved Spouse

of the Holy Ghost, and I consecrate to Thee my heart

with all its affections, and beseech Thee to obtain for me from

the Most Holy Trinity all the graces necessary for salvation.

Hail Mary, etc.

PRACTICE: Recite morning and evening the Consecration and Three Hail Marys in honor of the three great privileges of Mary,

together with this invocation at the end of each Hail Mary:

By thy holy and Immaculate Conception, O Mary,

make my body pure and my soul holy;

preserve me this day [this night] from mortal sin.

Imprimatur: Feb. 7, 1963

Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York