Thursday, May 7, 2020

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



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 tamen 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 anew in a heavenly life, we 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 flows out a sevenfold fountain, life and salvation.!  But who will apply these sacred waters to the redeemed?   Mary is given for this: that she, the arbiter might 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. 

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