Do you have Luke 1:26 and onward in your Bible? What does it say?
Mine talks the Angel Gabriel addressing Mary in this way, “Hail Mary, full of grace.”
The Elizabeth at the Visitation greets Mary, “Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb.”
The word Jesus was added later......so straight from the Bible we have the first half of the Hail Mary.
The second half,
Holy Mary is our greeting toward her.
“Mother of God”
Again, Elizabeth filled with the Holy Spirit says to Mary, “And how is this that the mother of my Lord should visit me.”
So we get the second line, Mothr of God,
The last two lines are a simple petition because she is alive in heaven, “Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.”
Did that help?
So, as I asked another on this thread...
Is Mary in Heaven, Limbo, Purgatory (oh wait. she like Christ was without sin??) or sleeping with the rest of the saints in Christ until the Resurrection?
Why pray to her? Does Jesus need her help getting everything done?