#12277 What Is the Origin of the Hail Mary in Catholicism? - Colin Donovan

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“What Is the Origin of the Hail Mary Prayer in Catholicism?” Join Colin Donavan as he explores the roots of this beloved prayer, along with intriguing questions about the letter from Jesus King to Abgar and the nature of free will in relation to Eve and Mary.

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Questions Covered:

04:19 – What do we make of the letter from Jesus to King Abgar as recorded in Eusebius’ Church History?
07:02 – There was a supposedly leaked document from the Vatican about the TLM and it claims that the reasons why it was banned were fabricated. What do we know about that?
16:12 – Where did the prayer of the Hail Mary come from since it’s not in the bible?
24:37 – Did Eve have free will? If she did and didn’t fall, would we have had Mary?
41:52 – Did Pope Francis change church doctrine on capital punishment?

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0:43.4	And we've got a very good show for you.
0:46.1	Second hour, Alex Herado will be here with us, the voice of reason, second hour.
0:51.1	First hour, Colin Donovan, the Friday guy.
0:57.3	The Open Line Friday, also Vice President for Theology at EWTN. And he just told me he's coming off a vacation and we're his warm up for
1:04.3	his show tomorrow. So we'll see how this goes. Hi, Colin. Thanks for being here.
1:09.1	I'm happy to be here. This was sort of by default,
1:12.6	as you know, I got got it changed, so I wouldn't be. Oh, yeah. Okay. So will you be able to do
1:18.8	theology today, or this is just going to be shooting in the dark? It's going to be guesses today.
1:23.0	No, no. I think I'll be fine, but once we get rolling, the tongue gets working.
1:30.5	Okay, all right, we'll see how it goes.
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1:41.6	8888-3187-884. However, you have been to Chicago recently, and are they making a
1:50.3	big deal about the Pope there? Are there signs everywhere? Like the Pope ate here and the Pope walked here?
1:55.8	Yeah, pretty much. And of course, the papal memorabilia, a of it is a baseball themed of course and sort of what
2:04.2	you're seeing in the press as well about it but yeah i think uh they're quite happy to have a
2:09.5	chicagoan as a pope and uh of course as an american as well and uh so they they seem to be very
2:17.3	proud of that.
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