The prayer
itself is of ancient origin. Our oldest
record of it comes from the twelfth century, but the website
ourcatholicprayers.com tells us:
According
to The
Golden Legend, a famous 13th
century work about the saints, Pope St. Gregory the Great heard angels singing
the first three verses from the Regina Coeli during a procession in the 6th
century and was inspired to add the fourth line “Ora pro nobis deum” (“pray for
to us to God” in Latin). Although this story is itself considered to be a
legend, it is, as Father Herbert Thurston once put it in his book Familiar
Prayers, “inseparably associated with the Regina Coeli.”
We pray it in place of the Angelus during the season of
Easter, at which time it also serves as the the Marian Antiphon at the end of
Compline (Night Prayer). I have posted the prayer itself, in both English and Latin, below the clip.
Queen of
Heaven, rejoice, alleluia.
The Son whom
you merited to bear, alleluia.
Has risen, as
He said, alleluia.
Pray for us to
God, alleluia.
V. Rejoice and
be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia.
R. For the Lord
has truly risen, alleluia.
Let us pray.
O God, who through the resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ
gave rejoicing to the world,
grant, we pray, that through his Mother, the Virgin Mary,
we may obtain the joy of everlasting life.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Regina cæli, lætare, alleluia:
R. Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia,
Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia,
R. Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.
Gaude et lætare, Virgo Maria, alleluia.
R. Quia surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia.
Oremus.
Deus, qui per resurrectionem Filii tui, Domini nostri Iesu
Christi,mundum lætificare dignatus es:
præsta, quæsumus, ut per eius Genitricem Virginem Mariam,
perpetuæ capiamus gaudia vitæ.
Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. R. Amen.
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