About this prayer
Salve Regina is a traditional Marian antiphon addressed to Mary as Queen and Mother of mercy. It is prayed or sung in Catholic devotion and after Night Prayer. This page contains the Latin text; Hail, Holy Queen remains a separate English prayer in the library. For community prayer, everyone recites the antiphon together, then follows the prayer leader and response cues.
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Prayer text
Salve Regina
Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae; vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, salve.
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevae. Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle.
Eia ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte.
Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria.
Versicle and response
Ora pro nobis, sancta Dei Genitrix.
Ut digni efficamur promissionibus Christi.
Concluding prayer
Oremus.
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui gloriosae Virginis Matris Mariae corpus et animam, ut dignum Filii tui habitaculum effici mereretur, Spiritu Sancto cooperante, praeparasti, da, ut cuius commemoratione laetamur; eius pia intercessione, ab instantibus malis et a morte perpetua liberemur. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum.
Amen.
Pray along
Use the complete text above. When praying together, one person reads the Prayer leader lines and everyone joins in the responses. When praying alone, read both parts. Pause briefly between prayers.
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