DIVINUM OFFICIUM Marian Antiphon

Salve Regina (Complete Solemn Tone)

From Saturday after Pentecost Octave (First Vespers of Trinity Sunday) to Friday before First Sunday of Advent inclusive. Kneeling posture except on Saturdays and Sundays.

Salve Regina ('Hail, Holy Queen') is the most beloved of the four Marian antiphons, sung at Compline from Trinity Sunday through the Saturday before Advent. Attributed to Herman of Reichenau (d. 1054), this 11th-century antiphon addresses Mary as Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, sweetness, and hope. The text powerfully expresses the Church's sense of earthly exile - the vale of tears (lacrimarum valle) - and Mary's role as advocate and intercessor. The final invocation, 'O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary,' was added by St. Bernard of Clairvaux.

LATINE
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 valle. Eja 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.
V. Ora pro nobis, sancta Dei Genitrix. R. Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi.
Oremus. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui gloriosae Virginis Matris Mariae corpus et animam, ut dignum Filii tui habitaculum effici mereretur, Spiritu Sancto cooperante praeparasti: da, ut cujus commemoratione laetamur; ejus pia intercessione, ab instantibus malis, et a morte perpetua liberemur. Per eumdem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
ENGLISH
Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy, hail, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us; and after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. 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, everlasting God, who, by the co-operation of the Holy Ghost, didst prepare the body and soul of the glorious Virgin Mother Mary worthily to become a suitable dwelling for Thy Son; grant that, as we rejoice in her commemoration, we may, by her loving intercession, be delivered from present evils and from everlasting death. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
From Saturday after Pentecost Octave (First Vespers of Trinity Sunday) to Friday before First Sunday of Advent inclusive. Kneeling posture except on Saturdays and Sundays.
HORA
Compline
TEMPVS
marian_ordinary
GENVS
Marian Antiphon
AVCTOR
Attributed to Herman of Reichenau (1013-1054); final invocation added by St. Bernard of Clairvaux