In the second, the soul repeats the greeting and, in the name of all people, calls to holy Mary, whom we beg to look upon us with eyes of mercy and to love us with her son, Jesus. In the third ...

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 ...

The Ave, Regina Caelorum/Hail, O Queen of Heaven is prayed from the Purification to the Wednesday of Holy Week. The Church has been singing the Alma Redemptoris Mater since the First Vespers of ...

For example: You can start by reciting the shorter prayers (the Sign of the Cross, the Our Father, and the Hail Holy Queen) in Latin—and then, as the season grows deeper toward Laetare Sunday ...

The lights dim, the crowd quiets. A choir boy carrying a candle slowly weaves through the hall at St. Anne parish in Gilbert, Ariz., singing a Latin hymn that transports the audience into a sacred ...