Regina Cæli
Traditional Easter Time prayer
English
Leader: Queen of heaven, rejoice! Alleluia.
Response: For he whom you did merit to bear. Alleluia.
Leader: Has risen, as he said. Alleluia.
Response: Pray for us to God. Alleluia
Leader: Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary. Alleluia.
Response: For the Lord is truly risen. Alleluia.
Leader: Let us pray.
O God, who gave joy to the world through the resurrection of your Son our Lord Jesus Christ, grant, we beseech you, that through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, his Mother, we may obtain the joys of everlasting life, through the same Christ our Lord.
Response: Amen.
Latin
Leader: Regína Cæli, lætáre. Allelúia.
Response: Quia quem meruísti portáre.
Allelúia.
Leader: Resurréxit, sicut dixit. Allelúia.
Response: Ora pro nobis, Deum. Allelúia
Leader: Gaude et lætáre, Virgo María.
Allelúia.
Response: Quia surréxit Dóminus vere. Allelúia.
Leader: Orémus.
Deus, qui per resurrectiónem Fílii tui, Dómini nostri Iesu Christi, mundum lætificáre dignátus es: præsta, quæsumus; ut, per eius Genitrícem Vírginem Maríam, perpétuæ capiámus gáudia vitæ. Per eúndem Christum Dóminum nostrum.
Response: Amen.