THE SIGN OF THE CROSS
Christians begin their day and
their activities with the Sign of the Cross. The Sign of the Cross strengthens
us in temptations and difficulties.
In nómine Patris, et Fílii,
et Spíritus
Sancti. Amen Per signum crucis de inimícis nostris líbera nos, Deus noster. In nómine
Patris…
In the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. By the sign of the cross deliver us from
our enemies, you who are our God. In the name…
THE LORD’S PRAYER
“In the Our Father, the object of the first three
petitions is the glory of the Father: the sanctification of his name, the coming
of the kingdom, and the fulfillment of his will. The four others present our
wants to him: they ask that our lives be nourished, healed of sin, and made
victorious in the struggle of good over evil. By the ‘Amen,’ we express our
‘fiats’ concerning the seven petitions: ‘So be it.’”[2]
Pater noster, qui es in cælis:
sanctificétur
nomen tuum; advéniat regnum tuum; fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo,
et in terra.
Panem nostrum cotidiánum
da nobis hódie; et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus
debitóribus
nostris; et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem; sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in
heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen
THE HAIL MARY
The greeting of the angel Gabriel opens this prayer.
It is God himself who, through his angel as intermediary, greets Mary. The
grace with which Mary is filled is the presence of him who is the source of all
grace.
Mary is Mother of God and our mother. We can entrust
all our cares and petitions to her. She prays for us as she prayed for herself:
“Let it be done to me according to your word.”
By entrusting ourselves to her prayer, we abandon
ourselves to the will of God together with her. Our trust broadens further to
surrender “the hour of our death” wholly to her care. May she be there as she
was at her Son’s Death on the Cross. May she welcome us as our mother at the
hour of our passing to lead us to her Son, Jesus, in paradise.[3]
Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus
tecum; benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta María, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis
peccatóribus,
nunc et in hora mortis nostræ. Amen
Hail, Mary, full of grace, the
Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of
thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray
for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
THE GLORY BE (THE DOXOLOGY)
The Glory Be, perhaps derived from Christ’s command
to the Apostles to baptize “in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Spirit,” has been prayed since the first centuries of Christianity.
This hymn of praise to the triune God joins us with
the heavenly hosts in glorifying God. With the Glory Be we also profess, in a
formula against the heresies of Arius (who denied the divinity of the Son) and
of Macedonius (who denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit), our faith in the
most fundamental and basic mystery of revelation: the mystery of the Holy
Trinity.
Glória Patri, et Fílio,
et Spirítui
Sancto. Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper et in sæcula
sæculórum.
Amen.
Glory be to the Father, and to
the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever
shall be, world without end. Amen.
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