About This Mystery
The Angel Gabriel appears to Mary and announces she will conceive the Son of God by the Holy Spirit. Mary's response — 'Let it be done to me according to your word' — is the perfect act of faith and the model of all Christian surrender. Heaven holds its breath as a young woman in Nazareth says yes to God, and the Word begins to take flesh.
Spiritual Fruit of This Mystery
Humility
How to Pray This Decade
Announce the Mystery
Name the mystery aloud and pause briefly to meditate on it.
Our Father
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
10 Hail Marys
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Repeat 10 times, meditating on the mystery with each bead.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Fatima Prayer
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.