![]() Mother of all” (San Paolo publisher), recently released, the Holy Father lets us in his prayers and thoughts addressed to Mary on one side, while helps us better understand, or just remember, the true meaning of the words of the most famous and old prayer dedicated to Jesus’ mother: the Hail Mary. This is not a good thing, especially if the words we are talking about are the ones of a prayer. The signifier becomes more important than the signified, or anyway the latter is a bit misinterpreted, taken for granted. We became used to saying those words, or hearing someone else saying them, that the sound if the words itself becomes even more important than what they want to convey. Sometimes these words are repeated so often that they lose some of their original meaning. The words of prayers for example, written by men and women inspired by God a long time ago, and said since then, whispered, shouted by countless devotees that looked for comfort during difficult times in them, or that just wanted to express their faith raising them with their own voice. There are words that are passed throughout time, from mouth to mouth, for years, centuries, uttered by a million different voices, in many different languages. 3 Act of entrustment to the Virgin of Fatima.1 The Ave Maria prayer spread over the years.
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