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Let us pray

O God, Who by the resurrection of Thy Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, hast vouchsafed to make glad the whole world, grant, we beseech Thee, that, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, His mother, we may attain the. joys of eternal life. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.


The Sovereign Pontiff Benedict XIII, by a brief, Jnjunctce nobis, Sept. 14, 1724, granted a plenary indulgence, once a month, to all the faithful who, every day, at the sound of the bell, in the morning, or at noon, or in the evening at sunset, shall say devoutly, on their knees, the Angelus Domini, with the Hail Mary, three times, on any day when, being truly penitent, after confession and communion, they shall pray for peace and union among Christian princes, for the extirpation of heresy, and for the triumph of Holy Mother Church; also an indulgence of one hundred days, on all the other days in the year, every time that, with contrite heart and devotion, they shall say these prayers. — The New Raccolta.

Salve Regina

In the Morning

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 valley 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