By Pam Gonzalez So the prayer we’re looking at this week is Hail Holy Queen, or Salve Regina in Latin, which is said at the end of the rosary and in some cases it’s used in night prayers.
Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy! Our life, our sweetness and our hope. Our hope is in the Lord, the Virgin Mary, being with Jesus, takes us deep within the Merciful Heart of Jesus. The Virgin Mary is not in some kind of competition with Jesus. She continues to bring Jesus to us through our prayers of hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve, Since the fall of Adam and Eve, we are all born with original sin. We cry out to the Lord to help us through our fallen nature. We are liberated from the power of sin through God’s grace and through His Church. We have safe refuge from the powers of darkness, but through Jesus, we have the light, like Mother Mary, we become the light when we choose to live for Him. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. As a loving Mother, she watched over Jesus as a baby all the way through adulthood. As a Mother, she identifies our suffering with his and she intercedes on our behalf through the love Jesus has for us. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us; and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. This part of the prayer leads to a very important truth, God involves all of us to become partakers to cooperate with His Holy Will. When we ask Mother Mary to have mercy, we are asking her as our loving Mother, we are asking our Mother in heaven to keep her eyes on the world with the grace that God gave her for the love of us. Until we are in heaven, we are in exile, awaiting for the glorious coming of our Lord, who will one day come again! O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God. Pray that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. God so loved the world, God is love. The woman who bore Him, who would become literally the “Ark of the New Covenant”, always points to Jesus. Her love for Jesus compels her to love all of us, as we should also love others. While praying we ask for Mary’s intercession. I hope this helps you guys understand what we recite at the end of the rosary!
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