Fruits of the Hail Mary

"Blessed Alan de la Roche who was so deeply devoted to the Blessed Virgin had many revelations from her...Three of them stand out with special emphasis: the first, that if people fail to say the Hail Mary (the Angelic Salutation that has saved the world) out of carelessness, or because they are lukewarm, or because they hate it, this is a sign that they will probably and indeed shortly be condemned to eternal punishment."

"The second truth is that those who love this divine salutation bear the very special stamp of predestination."

"The third is that those to whom God has given the signal grace of loving Our Lady and of serving her out of love must take very great care to continue to love and serve her until the time when she shall have had them placed in Heaven by her divine Son in the degree of glory which they have earned. (Blessed Alan, chapter XI, paragraph 2)."

"The heretics, all of whom are children of the devil and clearly bear the sign of God's reprobation, have a horror of the Hail Mary. They still say the Our Father but never the Hail Mary; they would rather wear a poisonous snake around their necks than wear a scapular or carry a rosary."

"Among Catholics those who bear the mark of God's reprobation think but little of the Rosary (whether five decades or fifteen). They either fail to say it or only say it very quickly and in a lukewarm manner"

"Even if I did not believe that which has been revealed to Blessed Alan de la Roche, even then my own experience would be enough to convince me of this terrible but consoling truth. I do not know, nor do I see clearly, how it can be that a devotion which seems to be so small can be the infallible sign of eternal salvation and how its absence can be the sign of God's eternal displeasure...My Hail Mary, my Rosary of fifteen or five decades, is the prayer and infallible touchstone by which I can tell those who are led by the Spirit of God from those who are deceived by the devil."

"The Hail Mary is a blessed dew that falls from heaven upon the souls of the predestinate. It gives them a marvelous spiritual fertility so that they can grow in all virtues. The more the garden of the soul is watered by this prayer the more enlightened one's intellect becomes, the more zealous his heart, the stronger his armor against his spiritual enemies."

from The Secret of the Rosary by Saint Louis de Montfort