Anthems of the Blessed Virgin

Our Lady of Guadalupe Alma Redemptoris Mater (Advent)
Ave Regina Cœlorum (Lent)
Regina Cœli (Paschaltide)
Salve Regina (Time after Pentacost)

Alma Redemptoris Mater

Mother of Christ, hear thou thy people’s cry
Star of the deep and Portal of the sky!
Mother of Him who thee made from nothing made.
Sinking we strive and call to thee for aid:
Oh, by what joy which Gabriel brought to thee,
Thou Virgin first and last, let us thy mercy see.


R.
Amen.

From Christmas Eve until the Purification, the following Responsory and prayer is said:
V. After childbirth thou didst remain a virgin.
R. Intercede for us, O Mother of God.
Let us pray. O God, who, by the fruitful virginity of blessed Mary, hast bestowed upon mankind the reward of eternal salvation: grant, we beseech Thee, that we may experience her intercession, through whom we have been made worthy to receive the author of life, our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son. Amen.
R. Amen.
V. May the divine assistance remain always with us.
R. Amen.

Pater, Ave, Credo, secretly.

V. The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.
R. And she conceived of the Holy Ghost.

Let us pray. Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts: that as we have known the incarnation of Thy Son Jesus Christ by the message of an Angel, so too by His Cross and passion may we be brought to the glory of His resurrection.
R. Amen.
V. May the divine assistance remain always with us.
R. Amen.

Pater, Ave, Credo, secretly.

Ave Regina Cœlorum

AVE, Regina caelorum,
Ave, Domina Angelorum:
Salve, radix, salve, porta,
Ex qua mundo lux est orta:

Gaude, Virgo gloriosa,
Super omnes speciosa,
Vale, o valde decora,
Et pro nobis Christum exora.

V. Dignare me laudare te, Virgo sacrata.
R. Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos.

Oremus. Concede, misericors Deus, fragilitati nostrae praesidium; ut, qui sanctae Dei Genetricis memoriam agimus; intercessionis eius auxilio, a nostris iniquitatibus resurgamus. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum.
R. Amen.
V. Divínum auxílium máneat semper nobíscum.
R. Amen.

Pater, Ave, Credo, secretly.

Regina Cœli

REGINA, caeli, laetare, alleluia:
Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia,
Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia.
Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.

V. Gaude et laetare, Virgo Maria, alleluia,
R. Quia surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia.

Oremus. Deus, qui per resurrectionem Filii tui, Domini nostri Iesu Christi, mundum laetificare dignatus es: praesta, quaesumus; ut, per eius Genetricem Virginem Mariam, perpetuae capiamus gaudia vitae. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum.
R. Amen.
V. Divínum auxílium máneat semper nobíscum.
R. Amen.

Pater, Ave, Credo, secretly.

Salve Regina

SALVE, Regina, mater misericordiae,
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevae.
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia, ergo, advocata nostra,
Illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte.
Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
Nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.

O clemens,
O pia,
O dulcis Virgo Maria.
Amen.

V. Ora pro nobis, sancta Dei Genetrix.
R. Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi.

Oremus. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui gloriosae Virginis Matris Mariae corpus et animam, ut dignum Filii tui habitaculum effici mereretur, Spiritu Sancto cooperante, praeparasti: da, ut cuius commemoratione laetamur; eius pia intercessione, ab instantibus malis, et a morte perpetua liberemur. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
R. Amen.
V. Divínum auxílium máneat semper nobíscum.
R. Amen.

Pater, Ave, Credo, secretly.