Why, say, Three Hail Marys daily?

Oh, yes.

So the devotion of the Three Hail Marys, it goes back to the early times of Christendom,

and it was originally part of the devotions to Our Lady of Sorrows, in fact.

It later took off in one direction as what we now know as the Angelus, but then it also took

off in a different direction with St. Leonard of Port Morris, who was a 17th century capuchin

friar. So he says that twice a day kneel down and pray three Hail Mary's in honor of

our lady's purity and her immaculate conception. So that's each morning and each evening. And he says,

if you do this little devotion in honor of the Blessed Version that God will give us three special

graces, first of the grace of chastity according to our state of life.

Secondly, that if someone has the misfortune to offend God gravely, that they'll be able to make a good

confession as soon as possible. And then the third grace is the ultimate grace of salvation.

So that's why, for such a small price, it only takes one minute every morning, every evening.

That's not enough to kill anyone.

There's so many graces that God is willing to give us through this little devotion of the three Hail Marys. Awesome. And I believe I remember there's a story about the three

Jamarys. Would you like to share that? Okay. Yeah. Okay. So to encourage us with those three

Hail Marys, St. Alphons, in his wonderful book on the glories of Mary, he relates his story. Of course, he relates it as historical fact. We don't need to be too concerned whether it is history or if it's just a pious legend. What matters for us, of course, is the moral of the story. So he relates that in

Naples, Italy, in the 1400s that there was a certain gentleman of the city who had completely

given up the practice of his Catholic faith. He made a mockery of airy chance that he got. And yet he

was well known in the city because he had a pet monkey. And at dinner time, the gentleman, once everyone had come to the dining room table, the

gentleman would take a little silver bell and ring the little silver bell, and the monkey

would come out of the kitchen dressed up with a little red fess and a little red velvet

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