A Prayer

Tomás Luís de Victoria, Ave Maria, mottetto a4 from Regensburg, Bischöfliche Zentralbibliothek, Proske Mappe Victoria I (seventeenth-century manuscript). 

Ave Maria, gratia plena, / Dominus tecum. / Benedicta tu in mulieribus, / et benedictus fructus ventris tui, / Jesus Christus.

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, / ora pro nobis peccatoribus, / nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. / Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, / the Lord is with thee; / Blessed art thou amongst women, / and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, / Jesus Christ.

Hail Mary, Mother of God, / pray for us sinners, / now and at the hour of our death. / Amen.

Alberto Sanna © 2015