The Hail Mary Prayer

How the Prayer Originated

According to the Spiritual Diary of Elizabeth Kindelmann, on February 2, 1982, Jesus explained that this added plea, prayed with the Hail Mary, would lead to humanity's conversion through grace:

“It is exclusively thanks to the efficacious pleas of the Most Holy Virgin that the Most Holy Trinity granted the effusion of the Flame of Love. By it, ask in the prayer with which you greet My Most Holy Mother: 'Spread the effect of grace of thy Flame of Love over all of humanity, now and at the hour of death. Amen.' So that, by its effect, humanity is converted.”

Not a Change — A New Prayer

The official documents of the Movement are very clear that this is not a change to the Hail Mary but is its own prayer:

“Even though it starts from the traditional text of the Hail Mary it creates a new prayer, but it does not affect the original prayer and does not require anyone to change it.”

“We must mark, that the praying of the Hail Mary with the addition is neither a 'correction of', nor an 'addition to' the original, nor some variant of it, but a self-sufficing prayer, independent from the original Ave Maria.”