Traditional Catholic prayer
Alma Redemptoris Mater: Mother of Christ
A Marian anthem asking the Mother of Christ to help her people and remembering the joy of the Annunciation.
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 701.
Mother of Christ! hear thou thy people’s cry, Star of the deep, and portal of the sky. Mother of Him Who thee from nothing made, Sinking we strive and call to thee for aid. Oh, by that joy which Gabriel brought to thee, Pure Virgin, first and last, look on our misery.
About this prayer
Prayer source
With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 701.
View the printed prayer page.About our prayer sources- What it is
- Alma Redemptoris Mater asks the Mother of Christ to help her people. This is the complete anthem itself in Lasance’s English rendering; the book separately gives seasonal verses and closing prayers.
- Prayer intention
- Mary’s help and the joy of the Annunciation.
- When to pray
- As a Marian anthem. The source assigns it from the Saturday before Advent through Candlemas.
- Languages
- English
- English prayer source
- With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 701. View the historical source. View the printed prayer page. Novena Regina provides the explanations above. The prayer text follows the source named here.
Traditional Catholic prayer
Alma Redemptoris Mater: Mother of Christ
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 701.
Mother of Christ! hear thou thy people’s cry, Star of the deep, and portal of the sky. Mother of Him Who thee from nothing made, Sinking we strive and call to thee for aid. Oh, by that joy which Gabriel brought to thee, Pure Virgin, first and last, look on our misery.