Spirit Singing

Photo: R. Massaro Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church Buckeye Lake, Ohio

Christ is Risen!

Are you still sharing your Easter joy with family and friends?  I hope so.  This is also the time in the church year when we console the heart of Our Lady during Compline, or Night Prayer. Instead of singing the Salve Regina, we traditionally chant the Regina Coeli (From Easter until Pentecost).  It is short, but beautiful:

In English: Queen of Heaven

. Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia:

℟. The Son whom you merited to bear, alleluia.

℣. Has risen, as He said, alleluia.

℟. Pray for us to God, alleluia.

℣. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia.

℟. For the Lord has truly risen, alleluia.

℣. Let us pray:

O God, who through the resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ gave rejoicing to the world grant, we pray, that through his Mother, the Virgin Mary, we may obtain the joys of everlasting life. Through Christ our Lord.

℟. Amen.

Traditionally chanted in Latin by the Carmelites and all religious orders:

Regina caeli

V. Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia.
R. Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia.
V. Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia.
R. 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. Amen.

From YouTube, the beautiful Gregorian chant of the Antiphon:

https://youtu.be/yzMa0qzwagA

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS