GENTLE VIRGIN MOTHER;  [Ave Maris Stella]

PRAYER

Blest above all other,

Guiding star of ocean,

Lead us to salvation.

Now with Gabriel’s blessing,

We, your grace confessing,

Offer you our greeting,

For your peace entreating.

Break the bonds that chain us,

Heav’nly mercy gain us,

Free us from our blindness

In your loving kindness.

Mother of Salvation,

hear our supplication,

To our Saviour pleading,

Kindly interceding.

Teach us, maiden lowly,

To be pure and holy,

So by your endeavour

We rejoice for ever.

Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee. Blessed

art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb,

 Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now,

and at the hour of our death.

Glory be, to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,

a world without end. AMEN