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What say You: THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
“Will you explain the Angelus for the benefit of this audience? I, as a Catholic, cannot understand why Protestants do not join in such a lovely practice and prayer.”The Angelus is a devotion that is Catholic in origin and practice. It is a three-part prayer, said three times a day, usually at 6 a.m., at noon, and at 6 p.m. It is preceded by the ringing of the church bells before each division of the Angelus and at its conclusion. The Angelus is said in honor of the Incarnation and in veneration of Mary as the Mother of Jesus, our Lord and our God. The name is taken from the opening Latin word of the prayer Angelus (the Angel . . .). The Angelus, made up almost entirely of words and suggestions in the first chapters of St. Luke’s and St. John’s Gospels, is as follows:
Salutation —“The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.”Response —“And she conceived of the Holy Ghost.”Prayer —“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.”Salutation —“Behold the handmaid of the Lord.”Response —“May it be done unto me according to Thy word.”Prayer —“Hail Mary, etc.Salutation —“And the Word was made flesh.”Response —“And dwelt among us.”Prayer —“Hail Mary, etc.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 the resurrection, through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.”
Protestants do not join in prayers to Mary, for they do not be­lieve in the intercession of Mary and the other saints in heaven. Catholics believe that just as we can (as St. Paul urged) offer “pe­titions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings . . . on behalf of all men” (I Tim. 2:1), so can we ask God’s friends in heaven to carry our petitions, etc., to God. We believe that among the friends of Christ in heaven, Mary stands first; that anything she asks of her Son will be granted as readily as He granted her request at the mar­riage feast of Cana. With Sister Rita Agnes, Catholics say:”Dear Madonna, you are risen and with queenly grace you stand; Life, we pray, absolving fingers of Your gracious Baby’s hand. They will bless at your command.”Protestants do not join in the Angelus because they think that prayers addressed to Mary detract from the honor due to her Divine Son, Jesus Christ. While Catholics have a deep affection for Mary, nine-tenths of it is based on their love of Jesus. Mary is addressed as a creature; Jesus as God. Catholics venerate Mary, they worship Jesus.This Catholic practice was music to the ears of Longfellow, who tells us in Evangeline, of hearing “sweetly over the village the bell of the Angelus.” Not so with Edwin Markham in his Socialist days. His distorted concept of “The Angelus” of Millet, the peasant painter, “inspired” “The Man with the Hoe.” The humble peasant in the field, stopping in the midst of his work, hat in hand, with head bowed in reverence, responding to the Angelus bell of the distant Church, suggested to Markham a brutalized instead of a contented saintly man. To him, the peasant, christianized by the centuries of Catholicity in his blood, was a man bowed down in misery by the weight of centuries, a brother to the ox, instead of a brother of Jesus Christ, a spiritual Son of the Virgin Mother.”It is related that when Millet’s famous painting, “The Angelus,” was on exhibition, two men stood long apart from the crowd admiring its simple beauty. Then, as if interpreting each other’s thoughts, one asked: “What would that picture be, after all, without the Angelus? Just two peasants in a potato field.” “What would the world be without the Angelus?” replied the other. “Just a spinning globe, with countless toilers crawling on it.”