Queen of Heaven Beautiful and Fair, also known as Mother of Mount Carmel, was published in 1888 by American author and poet Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly. Queen of heaven, beautiful and fair,Listen to thy loving children’s
The Regina Caeli is a prayer which is traditionally said in place of the Angelus during Eastertide. It’s also one of the four Marian antiphons which may be said at the end of Compline, the
This is an English translation of a liturgical prayer found in the Rite of the Holy Sepulchre, commonly called the Carmelite Rite. A rite is a form of the Prayer of the Church – the
In various forms, the Angelus has been prayed for about a millennium in the Catholic Church, traditionally at six in the morning, noon, and six in the evening. It’s also prayed by some high-church Anglican
Also known as O Sanctissima (Oh, Most Holy), the Sicilian Mariner’s Hymn was first published in London in 1792 as a traditional Sicilian hymn, but its origins are a little murky: it might actually come
The original Mary, Don’t Weep is a Black-American spiritual – considered one of the most important spirituals – which originated sometime before the Civil War. The original version is directed at St. Mary of Bethany,
Immaculate Mary, also known as the Lourdes Hymn, was written by Pere Jean Gaignet in 1873, after he made a pilgrimage to the site of Our Lady of Lourdes’s apparitions to St. Bernadette Soubirous. Immaculate
Hail, Holy Queen Enthroned Above was first published in 1687 as Gegrüßet seist du, Königin by Servant of God Johann Georg Seidenbusch. Johann had a devotion to Our Lady from a young age. As a
The Magnificat is recorded in the Gospel of Saint Luke 1:46-55. The Gospel says that when Our Lady met her cousin Elisabeth, she was pregnant with Our Lord, and Elisabeth was pregnant with St. John