Highly favoured (κεχαριτωμενη). Perfect passive participle of χαριτοω and means endowed with grace (χαρις), enriched with grace as…

Hail. This word of salutation is equivalent to Peace be with thee, or Joy be with thee; a form of speech implying that s…

Highly favoured.—The verb is the same as that which is translated, hath made us accepted in Ephesians 1:6; and, on the wh…

And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was…

St. Ambrose of Milan: Observe the virgin by her way of life. She was alone in an inner room, unseen by human eyes and discov…

Here Luke establishes another contrast with the preceding narrative, for Zechariah had received no such greeting as Mary did. Mary is “highly favor…

Hail, thou who hast obtained favor. The angel’s commission, being of an astonishing and almost incredible description, he opens it with a …

And the angel came in to her
Into her house, and into the room where she was:

We have here an account of the mother of our Lord. Although we are not to pray to her, we ought to praise God for her. Christ had to be born miracu…