Gathered around Mary

1. 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 vale.
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.

2. from St Marcellin Champagnat

O Mary, my Good Mother,
I give into your sacred keeping
and commend to your special care and protection
my body, mind and spirit for this day and for every day of my life.
To you I entrust my hopes and consolations,
my difficulties and sorrows, my life and my death;
that through your prayers and your merits
all my actions may be directed and disposed
according to your will and the will of your Son. Amen.

3. O WITH WHAT JOY

O with what joy we sing of Mary, a woman of great love
whose openness and loving kindness gave birth to God's own Son.
Mary, oh so gentle and discreet, be with us as we pray,
to know the whisper of His Presence, the wonder of his love.

4. SUB TUUM PRAESIDIUM (WE FLY TO YOUR PATRONAGE)

We fly to your patronage, O holy Mother of God.
Despise not our prayers in our necessities,
but deliver us from all danger
O ever glorious and Blessed Virgin Mary.

Sub tuum praesidium, confugimus, confugimus,
Sancta Dei Genitrix, Sancta Dei Genitrix
.

Nostras deprecationes, ne despicias, ne despicias
in necessitatibus nostris.

Sed a periculus cunctis
libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta.

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