OUR BLESSED MOTHER

Let us end these first four weeks of Lent with a hymn to our Blessed Mother, the Mother of Mercy. Let us honor her on this first Saturday and beg for her prayers. The following is taken from the ancient Roman-French missals. The Sequence:


Hail Mary, full of grace! The Lord is with thee, O gentle Virgin!

Blessed art thou among women, for thou didst bring forth peace to men and glory to the angels.

And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus, Who, by His grace, made us to be His coheirs.

By this Ave, which sounded so sweetly to the world, thou didst conceive, and not by nature's laws. Thou wast the new star that wast to bring forth a new Sun.

Thou, though ever the purest of virgins, wast the temple of our Saviour Jesus Christ (Who united in His Person the little and the great), of Jesus, the Lion and the Lamb.

O Queen of virgins! O rose without thorns! Thou wast made Mother of Him Who is our Sun, our Dew, our Bread, and our Shepherd.

Thou art the city of the just King; thou art the Mother of mercy, bringing grace to Theophilus, by drawing him out of filth and misery.

The heavenly court praises thee, for thou art both Mother and Daughter of its King. By thee, the guilty obtain pardon; by thy prayers, the just receive grace.

Therefore, O star of the sea, O tabernacle of the Word, O aurora of the divine Sun.

O gate of heaven, by whom Light arose to the world! pray for us to thy Son,

That He loose us from sin, and introduce us into the kingdom of brightness, where perpetual light shines forever. Amen.


OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP, pray for us.