THE ' OUR FATHER ' AND ' HAIL MARY.'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 30 January 1908, Page 3

THE ' OUR FATHER ' AND ' HAIL MARY.'

— Aye Maria.

When the Apostles asked Our Lord To teach them how to pray, ' Our Father ' was the prayer He taught Their eager hearts to say. It held their every thought and need, Their lives it spanned around^ - And praise and homage, food and strength, Vn its grand words they found. Then, as a rainbow in the sky ' .. That arched the heavens fair, . There flashed a light from heaven brightIt "was an Angel's prayer, ' Hail Mary !' rang the joyous words,' Pronounced in accents sweet ; And in the Ave Heaven beheld The Lord's Prayer made complete. How proud, then, should I be to say. From out my very h~art, Those prayers that Heaven itself thus deigned In merev to imnart !