HAIL HOLY QUEEN

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,�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.

HAIL HOLY QUEEN

℣ Pray for us O holy Mother of God,

℟ 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 Spirit didst prepare the body and soul of the glorious Virgin-Mother Mary to become a dwelling-place meet for thy Son: grant that as we rejoice in her commemoration; so by her fervent intercession we may be delivered from present evils and from everlasting death. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.