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to the season. The Autiphon is to be said kneeling, except in Eastertide, when it is to be said standing.

I.

From Vespers of Saturday before the First Sunday in Advent to the Purification, inclusive.

ALMA Redemptoris Mater quæ pervia cœli
Porta manes, et Stella maris, succurre cadenti,
Surgere qui curat, populo: tu quæ genuisti,
Natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem:
Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore,
Sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.

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,
Thou Virgin first and last, let us thy mercy see.

In Advent.

ANGELUS Domini nuntiavit Mariæ.

THE Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.

R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.

R. And she conceived by the Holy Ghost.

Oremus.

Let us pray.

GRATIAM tuam, quæsumus, Domine, mentibus nostris infunde, ut qui, Angelo nuntiante, Christi filii tui incarnationem cognovimus, per passionem ejus et crucem ad resurrectionis gloriam

POUR forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that as we have known the Incarnation of Christ Thy Son by the message of an Angel, so, by His Passion and Cross, we may be