The Handbook of Prayers Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To you do we cry, poor, banished children of Eve. To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and ...

O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God. R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let us pray. Almighty and everlasting God, by the cooper ...

The Hail Holy Queen is directed towards Mary (who prays for us to God), but even it ends (i.e., in the usual follow-up prayer in a Rosary) on a Christocentric note: O God whose only begotten Son ...

begins her prayers like this: “Hail Persephone, full of strength and beauty. … Blessed are you and blessed is the cycle of your life. Holy Persephone, queen of life and death, pray for your ...

From the Feast of the Purification (Feb. 2) through the Wednesday of Holy Week, the Ave, Regina Caelorum is the Marian antiphon for Night Prayer ... Roman Breviary: Hail, O Queen of the heavens ...

Her prayer is reminiscent of the victory hymns of Miriam (Ex 15:1-18), Hannah (1 Sm 2:1-10) and Judith (Jdt 16:1-17). In it Mary first gives praise to God for according her a dignity that will be ...