I, your Blessed Virgin Mother, I say thank you for the prayers and your devotion to the three Hail Marys. I promise to my children, whom every day pray three Hail Marys, that I will concede many graces, blessings and protection during their lives, and at the hour of their death, I will appear to them in the splendour of heaven. I see you are also praying for some of your loved ones, family and for some of my children. Teach them about this special devotion – it pleases me very much – for their salvation, their souls.

Mother Mary’s revelation to St Mechtilde

This devotion was revealed to St Mechtilde (1241–1298) and was later promoted by other saints. One day, while St Mechtilde was thinking about her own death, she fervently begged the Mother of God to help her during the last moments of her life. She heard Our Lady say to her:

“Yes, I will; but I want you, on your part, to pray three Hail Marys to me each day. With the first, you will ask that, just as God the Father raised me up to a throne of glory without equal, making me the most powerful creature in heaven and on earth, so too I may assist you on earth to strengthen you and drive away from you every power of the enemy. With the second Hail Mary, you will ask that, just as the Son of God filled me with wisdom to such an extent that I have more knowledge of the Holy Trinity than all the saints, so too may I help you during the last moments of your life, filling your soul with the light of faith and of true wisdom, so that the shadows of error and ignorance may not darken it. With the third, you will ask that, just as the Holy Spirit filled me with the sweetness of his love, and has made me so loving that, after God, I am the sweetest and most merciful, so also may I help you at the hour of your death, filling your soul with such gentleness of divine love that all the sorrow and bitterness of your death may be changed for you into delight.”

God also revealed to St Gertrude that “After the power of the Father, the wisdom of the Son and the tender mercy of the Holy Spirit, nothing compares to the power, wisdom and tender mercy of Mary.”

The Virgin Mary promised St Mechtilde that whomever prayed three Hail Marys every day would receive her help during their life and her special assistance at the moment their of death; the Virgin Mary would appear to them with such brightness and beauty that the mere sight of her would bring consolation and the joys of heaven.

Below is a suggested devotional prayer that fulfils our Blessed Mother Mary’s request to St Mechtilde [1]...