A short but intense and beautifully written study of the ‘Hail Mary’ by the Irish theologian, poet and Dominican priest, Paul Murray.

For almost an entire millennium the most commonly repeated prayer in the Church, apart from the Our Father, has been the Hail Mary. It’s a prayer that, with great simplicity and ease, brings us at once into the mystery of God incarnate, the mystery of Jesus, son of Mary. For countless numbers of people over the centuries it has proved to be a threshold of grace, a real opening into the mystery and meaning of God’s love, a ‘holy door’. The Hail Mary is a prayer which is easy to say, easy to pray. But as Paul Murray shows in this short book it also has a radiance and depth of theological truth.

Paul Murray is an Irish Dominican, a poet, and a professor in Rome at the University of St Thomas, the ‘Angelicum’.  He is the author of several books which have been published in Ireland, England and the United States including I Loved Jesus in the Night: Teresa of Calcutta. He lives in Rome, and is well known as a speaker throughout the United States.