Matins on the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces, May 31: Dominican Breviary

 

The privilege of honoring Mary as mediatrix of all graces with a proper Office was granted to Belgium in 1921 at the instance of the late Cardinal Mercier. It was given a place in the Dominican liturgy in 1939, having been petitioned by the General Chapter of Rome, 1938.

“There is no fruit of grace in the history of salvation that does not have as its necessary instrument the mediation of Our Lady.” – Pope Benedict XVI, on the day of his resignation.

Christus, humani generis misertus,

Morte nos ictos merita, supernam

Rursus ad vitam genuit, suoque

Sanguine tersit.

O pium flumen, scelus omne purgans!

O inexhaustum pelagus bonorum,

Unde septeno fluit usque fonte,

Vita salusque!

Hos tamcn sacros latices redemptis

Quis ministrabit? Datur hoc Maria:

Munus, ut divae moderetur undae,

Arbitra, cursum.

Cuncta, quae nobis meruit Redemptor,

Dona partitur genitrix Maria,

Cujus ad votum sua fundit ultro

Munera Natus,

Te per aeternos veneremur annos,

Trinitas, summa celebranda plausu:

Te fide mentes, resonoque linguae

Carmine laudent.

Christ, having mercy on the human race, gave birth to us again in an heavenly life, who were struck by a deserved death and washed in his own blood.  O loving river that cleanses every sin!  O inexhaustible sea of goodness, from which flow out of a seven fold fountain, life and salvation.!  But who will serve these sacred waters to the redeemed?   Mary is given for this: that she, might as the arbiter direct the course of the divine wave. All the gifts  which the Redeemer merited for us,  Mary the mother distributes, at whose prayer her Son pours forth freely His gifts. . O Trinity, worthy to be venerated with the highest praise, may we adore you through the eternal years; may our souls praise you with faith and our tongue with the resounding hymn.