Hail Mary! - because as Our Blessed Mother was ineffably bound to her Son in His hour of death, standing by His cross, sharing in His sacrifice, by His Glorious Resurrection she now shares the praise for His triumph over death, itself, and for all men and women, born since Adam himself.

Full of Grace! - because this Resurrection was by the very grace of God to all men, so that Heaven would be open to her, as well; even to reigning as Queen of all the Saints. Salvation for those in the grace of God.

The Lord is with thee - For the mystics say he certainly appeared in vision at the moment of His resurrection, to Our Blessed Mother, who accompanied the trembling and terrified Apostles and disciples whose Lord had been killed and left them. The Lord is ever with Mary, and with those who serve Him. But Our Lord was at last with His Mother in this life, again, so truly, in the case of Jesus' own Mother at the moment of Resurrection - the Lord was with her.

Blessed art thou among women - For as the world mocked and watched her Son die, she was not thought blessed by them, and even a curse when the darkness descended. And in the interim, as Christ lay in the grave (and some say His Spirit visited those waiting for Heaven, perhaps even the souls of the damned to announce the good news they would not share, the triumph over death and evil), perhaps even Mary did not feel blessed, but empty and rudderless, even abandoned if it were possible that she would think that. So she is blessed now that Our Lord rose again, to be the Mother of Him that rose from the dead and defeated death, to be the Mother of Our Saviour is to be truly blessed, ever so clearly now as it seemed somewhat differently when Elizabeth spoke it so long before of the Messiah promised to the Jews.

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus - which is evident, as He merited this Resurrection, as none of His creatures could, as He alone had the standing to pay Adam's price, unlike any of His creatures. He is blessed in proving Mary, that the fruit of this vine is indeed glorious and perfect, and so what does it say of the vine. He is blessed as God's Only-Begotten Son, now evident by His Resurrection, now blessed to curse the Temple priesthood who insisted He was just a mortal pretender.

Holy Mary - And so her holiness is now that seen so clearly as entirely imparted by the grace and power of her Son. She is holy because she glows and reflects the Holiness of God, the Risen Christ - radiant in glory.

Mother of God - Again, so clear now that He is God, that the priests killed Him whom they claimed to base all their faith on and to Whom they claimed to offer the Temple sacrifice, now supplanted by the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary in The Holy Eucharist of The Church, still yet to receive its grace in the Cenacle.

Pray for us sinners - And now there is so much to pray for, now Heaven is open to all who are written in the Book of Life, to all who will suffer, and suffer even more if only to show that their strength clearly lies not in their pitiful and even revolting frailty, but utterly in the great and ineffable power of God, Himself, Who rose again from the dead; and Who did so just as He prophesied.

now - because there is a moment called, now, as there was a particular place and time when Our Lord rose. Please pray for us, now, that we would now further offend Our Lord, even just for what we imagine or think in a moment of weakness.

and at the hour of our death, Amen - and then when before we are about to suffer the particular judgment on our eternal soul, to help us get right with God by the method and design God has for each if we rely on Our Blessed Mother, and beseech Our Blessed Mother, to graciously deign to support and guide us in such a confession just before we die.

Hail Mary! - and so Our Lord might have said in parting, accompanied by the resignation of some, the tears of others present, shock and sadness by others.

Full of Grace! - because Our Lord blessed those present, so the mystics say.

The Lord is with thee - because she knew He was going to reign in glory, before He would come again, that he wasn't really gone but . . . that it might still have felt for all those lonely years before she could join her Son in the new body as if He were. He was with His mother, and all of us, as He is, but unseen as before He was Incarnate. And it was a promise for after her death, when she could gaze on Him again with her own eyes, and serve Him forever.

Blessed are thou among women - and blessed among the Apostles and disciples, too, for her knowledge, for her perfection, for the grace she still possessed and could use to guide and lead the others, now that her Son, the Resurrected Christ, was no longer with them.

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus - and so clearly seen, now, by His physical departure from the earth. Parting is a time of sorrow, and appreciation for what is being lost.

Holy Mary - Holiness from Christ, God Himself now literally ascending physically in a cloud, as with all who confessed Him, who even abandoned Him in the crisis of His Passion day but who sought His remission for their folly and offense, so she is particularly so as she stood with the Holy women, and stood with John at the foot of the Holy Cross. Only holiness would merit the invitation to Our Lord's spectacular Ascension.

Mother of God - but now leaving us, the Resurrected Christ, but not so very far away for the suffering that would have to come to all His servants for century upon century; the mourners now that the Bridegroom was gone but who would always turn to this Bridegroom for strength. Truly this man was God, as the centurion exclaimed. Humble Mary, hardly mentioned later in the Gospels, was now left to lead as the Mother of Our Saviour, to support the Apostles as the Holy Spirit of Father and Son would move her, to be despite herself and her preference for anonymity, now among the believers, her Son gone from our gaze, stands the very Mother of God.

prayer for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen - to turn to Mary would be to ask for her intercession, as the ear to which her Son might listen. This is such an utterly Catholic thing, something to clearly separate His Church from all others which have a similar Scripture or include similar accounts in theirs. As she was left alone in this world, to be seen by the senses, to be asked by voice, the mystics suggest Our Lord even just before He ascended commended the Church there present to her care and intercession.

Hail Mary! - as with the others who tilted back their heads for the symbolic, but also real, tongue of fire, Mary the sinless one of all present in the Cenacle where they had gathered to pray, was now greeted perhaps particularly amidst what may have been the clamour and roar of the wind and the mysterious flames cutting through the air above their heads.

Full of grace! - most clearly as the others there to be filled by the grace of God's Holy Spirit, to speak in tongues in order to help convert some, to know the hearts of others in order to convert and aid them in a good first confession, to be filled with something indescribable but evident to those with the heart to convert, as all those who witnessed the event from outside and who were moved to join the Church, now given the grace to proceed.

The Lord is with thee - again, who never has left Our Blessed Mother, but now by His Spirit, that proceeding from Father and Son, not physically present as the Resurrected Christ, but now because of the infusion of the spectacular grace perhaps felt more surely than ever.

Blessed art thou among woman - of even the holy women present, who had ministered to Him, as His Mother she remains blessed among women, sharing with all the others the special grace of the descent of the Holy Spirit.

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus - Who has enabled and made possible all that He now causes in the Cenacle, a chain of events proving again a mission for The Church, and God's loving grace to weak and ignorant men to help carry it out.

Holy Mary - and now because of the gifts received from the Holy Spirit, along with those, even however they may have somewhat varied from each to each, in the Cenacle at that moment, at that hour, on that day in history.

Mother of God - which shows the glory of the title, as more utterly supernatural events surround her, God entering into the world by radiance and tongues of fire.

pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen - that the Holy Spirit would enter into us, and give us strength and liveliness, and the gifts to carry on in our duties and to our purpose with regard to saving souls for The Church, in the radiance and beauty suggested by this miraculous event on one particular Pentecost.

Hail Mary! - as the hosts of Heaven must have proclaimed, as Our Lord, Himself, the Resurrected Christ came to the tomb to revive Our Blessed Mother to her new body, so that she might effortlessly fly up out through the rock of the tomb at the start of the glorious procession leading her to rule over Heaven. What more appropriate chant, for in her Assumption is only again the work of Our Lord. This is yet the example, again, of the healing and glorious power of God, to those who obeyed Him, who stayed submerged and followed where He led, who did not dare to judge Him or presume to seek glory for themselves, even for their knowledge or association with Him.

Full of grace! - And again so clearly, having left behind the flesh of this world, even preserved from the effects of Original Sin, she was pure as can be but now completed, fulfilled, transformed into something greater, as Our Lord came to fulfill the Old Covenant with something far greater in the New.

The Lord is with thee - on the procession to Heaven, reviving her from her sleep as if she were the daughter of Jairus, Who never left His mother, and now was with her on the journey to Heaven, Itself.

Blessed art thou among women - of course, to be assumed into Heaven out of the tomb, granted the unique honour not even for her merit, her service, her purity, her devotion even to standing by The Cross, but blessed only because God granted her the grace to serve, and blessed that she did and blessed so that she could. Now blessed among women to rise again, in imitation of her Son, as He raised her to glory all by the merits of Jesus, Christ, her Son.

Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen - that Our Blessed Mother might remember us so that we might find our way to a similar end, if not quite the same exalted journey from the grave in a Heavenly procession accompanied by the perfect choir of Angels.

Hail Mary! - and now the clauses of the Ave are completed and each come together clearly. Hail Mary!; even as one says to any earthly queen - Hail! It is the loving Queen of the perfect Heaven, the Queen of love, the Queen who prays to quell the anger we force from her Son; the King of all Majesty and Right, such as we could ever conceive, and of course more. We approach her Majesty with dread when we pray the Rosary, afraid of a miscue, as if all the guards and finely arrayed lords of the palace were waiting for a chance to accuse us of wasting the valuable Royal time. Hail Mary! we offer as the salute to the humble and so gracious Queen of Heaven, keeping in mind her station is now that for which her Son, sitting beside her, demands the utmost respect, attention, and devotion were we to have the temerity to seek an appointment and have her lend us a moment.

Full of grace! - the greatest of all God's creation, the highest humble creature, above the hosts of the angels, greater than the powerful Michael, greater than Gabriel who came to her so long ago. She is full of the grace to reflect utterly the glory of God, to serve utterly and in perfection, to reign as He wills, to offer the grace that He grants His Queen, to seek that we respond to the grace send us by God and turn our lives from the carnal and crooked world and to something that lasts, that is forever, that is glorious.

The Lord is with thee - and has never left her, but now literally as the King by her side. It is His glance we must fear for our slight of His Holy Queen, even as is typically the case, one which is not intentional. We may pray to her to plead even for our ignorant offences committed before the King, who is always with her.

Blessed art thou among women - because she is the most blessed not only of all women, but of all creatures. If men would not be included, because her Son was and is, as the Resurrected Christ, still man and God, then holiest above all the male saints, many of whom were fervently devoted to her and recommended such devotion for her intercession; and not just for themselves, but for even the presently unrepentant who require our prayers to her, her prayers and grace, if they are already written in the Book of Life.

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus - the King has only yet to come again in the sort of truimphant way even men of the world clearly understand. God's perfection is literally the fruit of her womb. Her's is the highest imaginable honour, in any history, of having produced the rarest gem, of having been blessed from her birth for that purpose, and having blessed herself by her devotion and humility made possible by that gift, of having been granted all without merit, but responding with a will submerged to perfection, itself, and so now the fruit of the tree proves the blessedness of the Virgin of prophecy.

Holy Mary - And now with the holiness of wisdom mixed with charity, humility mixed with the energy to serve God actively in the world through miraculous visions, all warning of the coming chastisment and calling for particular devotions and immediate conversion. The call from the Holy Mother of God is simply that we attain to holiness, along a set path, by certain devotions, by an active charity and humble wisdom that we only occasionally find working properly in our very rare moments of abandonment to God, for all the rest in which we prove ourselves just carnal and violent creatures, unworthy in every way, and foolish for not treating each offer of holiness as if it were the jackpot so many hope to find by accident.

Mother of God - and by that the most likely to have His ear, and His compassion for her pleas and begging on our behalf. The Mother of God is our way to a treasure no moth or worm can injure. The Mother of God is a title so astounding, so offensive to many in the world, even for this Mother who did what God asked, went where He ordered when he ordered, suffered with Him, loved Him, abandoned herself to serve Him, quite literally worshipped Him and worships Him as perfectly as any creature can. And this title cause some offence.

Pray for us sinners - so unlike Our Blessed Mother, as we are not free from the effects of Original Sin, who sin in any active occupation in the world almost from the start, and who would sin even the contemplative and consecrated life, even to fear for one's soul. The saints feared for their souls, even if other saints would have chastised them for their lack of faith and confidence. We desperately need the prayers of our Blessed Mother, who knows what to pray for us, how to do so, and how to win over her Son to our particular case, if even possible. Our Lord seeks that we enquire of His mother, that we go through her to seek His pardon and strength, that we find Him through her, that we seek the God-man through man; through the 'new Eve' find the Way to and taught by the 'new Adam.'

now - because we sin constantly, even if not always in deed, then by omission, or certainly by thought. We need the grace to find the Sacraments; and particularly in these times quite literally to find where they are really being offered. We need Our Blessed Mother to send such grace as she knows is appropriate. We need her, now, in our each moment of time as we perceive it, to keep us along the narrow way, to keep us under the cross which is light.

and at the hour of our death, Amen - and this is the purpose of certain devotions, even, that by praying these we might be granted precisely an appointment, as it were, with Our Blessed Mother to help us attain Heaven or Purgatory for all we might have left undone in sanctifying our souls; for all the things we forgot and never confessed, or confessed to a priest unsuitable for the confessional, or for which we never really made penance or were really, ultimately, through with. If only Our Blessed Mother can help us to truly and genuinely be done with evil, and show her Son that we are not one of the many who preferred the great, wide way travelled so easily, so heavily, by so many. Nothing could be more important than a good death. If all our life were not one of even formal and casual repentance, then how can a conversion be true. But if we were Catholic, if we acted as we are taught by the true Church, then for those things left undone may we pray that Our Blessed Mother will help us set those right, at the hour of our death; not after when the soul assumes its eternal state.