Replies

'In your last letter to me you said that you would like to be spiritually united with me in my prayers. Well, I am very happy with that suggestion and so from now on you can accept me as a partner, not only in the general sense of the Communion of Saints, but even more especially in all acts of virtue, prayer and so forth. I would like to have the same arrangement with Countess Landi. Still, I am sorry that you entrust yourself to such a miserable sinner as I . . . enough said . . . even though each morning, particularly in the holy Mass, I keep you in mind and I pray wholeheartedly that the Lord will grant you the virtue of holy perseverance so that you will attain salvation.'

St. Gaspar del Bufalo

The Angelus

The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary:
And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.

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.

Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy word.

Hail Mary . . .

And the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us.

Hail Mary . . .

Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray:

Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord.

Amen.

"Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you" (Lk 1:28)

"Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb"
(Lk 1:42).