Ave Maris Stella
In English (Latin below)
Hail, you Star of Ocean!
Portal of the sky,
Ever Virgin Mother,
Of the Lord most high.
O! by Gabriel's Ave,
Uttered long ago,
Eva's name reversing,
Establish peace below.
Break the captive's fetters;
Light on blindness pour;
All our ills expelling,
Every bliss implore.
Show yourself a mother;
Offer him our sighs,
Who for us Incarnate
Did not you despise.
Virgin of all virgins!
To your shelter take us;
Gentlest of the gentle!
Chaste and gentle make us.
Still as on we journey,
Help our weak endeavor,
Till with you and Jesus
We rejoice forever.
Through the highest heaven,
To the Almighty Three,
Father, Son, and Spirit,
One same glory be.
In Latin:
Ave, maris stella,
Dei mater alma,
atque semper virgo,
felix cœli porta.
Sumens illud «Ave»
Gabrielis ore,
funda nos in pace,
mutans Evæ nomen.
Solve vincla reis,
profer lumen cæcis,
mala nostra pelle,
bona cuncta posce.
Monstra te esse matrem,
sumat per te precem
qui pro nobis natus
tulit esse tuus.
Virgo singularis,
inter omnes mitis,
nos culpis solutos
mites fac et castos.
Vitam præsta puram,
iter para tutum,
ut videntes Jesum
semper collætemur.
Sit laus Deo Patri,
summo Christo decus,
Spiritui Sancto
tribus honor unus. Amen
There are some websites that claim that September 27 is a feast day in honor of Our Lady Star of the Sea. I tried at length to find an official website that supports that claim. Perhaps it is a regional feast day somewhere or a feast day specific to a religious order but so far I have not found it. Sites devoted to traditional Catholic feast days prior to Vatican II do not list it. If anyone has any information regarding this, please comment.
ReplyDeleteI posted this on September 27 since I had been planning to put up a Star of the Sea post anyway so it seemed like a good idea to post it today regardless but did not describe it as a feast day.