The Raccolta (1857)/Psalms in honour of her most holy Name

by Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics

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PSALMS IN HONOUR OF HER MOST HOLY NAME.

Amongst the devout practices devised to honour the most holy name of Mary, our Mother and our Queen, one of the most ancient is that of saying Five Psalms whose initial letters compose her name. This devotion was known in Italy and France, and in other kingdoms also; and it has much more extensively circulated ever since the Venerable Pope Innocent XI., in 1084, established throughout the whole Catholic world the Feast of the Glorious Name of Mary, at the same time that he instituted the archconfraternity which bears this name as its title, having power to aggregate to itself other confraternities out of Rome; to all of whose

members who should recite these five psalms in honour of the name of the mighty Virgin, he granted certain Indulgences, confirmed by subsequent Popes.

Pope Pius VII., desirous that all the faithful should practise this devotion, by a decree of the S. Congr. of Indulgences of June 13, 1815, granted them the following fresh Indulgences:

i. The Indulgence of seven years and seven quarantines every time they say these psalms.

ii. The Plenary Indulgence once a month to all who say them daily for a month together, on any one day when, after Confession and Communion, they pray according to the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff.

iii. The Plenary Indulgence on the Sunday in the octave of our Lady's Nativity (the Feast of her Name), provided that on that day, after having Confessed and Communicated, they pray as above.

THE FIVE PSALMS.

Ant Mariæ nomen.

M. Cantic. B.M.V. Luc. 1.

Magnificat * anima mea Dominum.

Et exultavit spiritus meus * in Deo salutari meo.

Quia respexit humilitatem ancillæ suæ; * ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes.

Quia fecit mihi magna, qui potens est, * et sanctum nomen ejus.

Et misericordia ejus a progenie in progenies * timentibus eum.

Fecit potentiam in brachio suo: * dispersit superbos mente cordis sui.

Deposuit potentes de sede, * et exaltavit humiles.

Esurientes implevit bonis, * et divites dimisit inanes.

Suscepit Israel puerum suum, * recordatus misericordiæ suæ.

Sicut locutos est ad patres nostros, * Abraham et semini ejus in sæcula.

Gloria Patri, &c.

Ant. Mariæ nomen cunctas illustrat ecclesias, cui fecit magna, qui potens est, et sanctum nomen ejus.

Ant. A soils ortu.

A. Ps. 119.

Ad Dominum cum tribularer, clamavi: * et exaudivit me.

Domine, libera animam meam a labiis iniquis, * et a lingua dolosa.

Quid detur tibi, aut quid apponatur tibi * ad linguam dolosam?

Sagittæ potentis acutæ, * cum carbonibus desolatoriis.

Heu mihi, quia incolatus meus prolongatus est! habitavi cum habitantibus Cedar: * multum incola fuit anima mea.

Cum his, qui oderunt pacem, eram pacificus: * cum loquebar illis, impugnabant me gratis.

Gloria Patri, &c.

Ant. A solis ortu usque ad occasum laudabile nomen Domini, et Mariæ matris ejus.

Ant. Refugium est.

R. Ps. 118.

Retribue servo tuo, vivifica me; * et custodiam sermones tuos.

Revela oculos meos, * et considerabo mirabilia de lege tua.

Incola ego sum in terra, * non abscondas a me mandata tua.

Concupivit anima mea desiderare justificationes tuas * in omni tempore.

Increpasti superbos: * maledicti qui declinant a mandatis tuis.

Aufer a me opprobrium, et contemptum, * quia testimonia tua exquisivi.

Etenim sederunt principes, et adversus me loquebantur: * servus autem tuus exercebatur in justificationibus tuis.

Nam et testimonia tua meditatio mea est; * et consilium meum justificationes tuæ.

Adhæsit pavimento anima mea: * vivifica me secundum verbum tuum.

Vias meas enuntiavi, et exaudisti me: * doce me justificationes tuas.

Viam justificationum tuarum instrue me, * et exercebor in mirabilibus tuis.

Dormitavit anima mea præ tædio: * confirma me in verbis tuis.

Viam iniquitatis amove a me, * et de lege tua miserere mei.

Viam veritatis elegi: * judicia tua non sum oblitus.

Adhæsi testimoniis tuis, Domine: * noli me confundere.

Viam mandatorum tuorum cucurri, * cum dilatasti cor meum.

Gloria Patri, &c.

Ant. Refugium est in tribulationibus Mariæ nomen omnibus illud invocantibus.

Ant. In universa terra.

I. Ps. 125.

In convertendo Dominua captivitatem Sion, * facti sumus sicut consolati.

Tunc repletum est gaudio os nostrum, * et lingua nostra exultatione.

Tunc dicent inter gentes: * magnificAvit Dominus facere cum eis.

Magnificavit Dominus facere nobiscum; * facti sumus lætantes.

Converte, Domine, captivitatem nostram, * sicut torrens in austro.

Qui seminant in lacrymis, * in exultatione metent.

Exmtes ibant, et flebant, * mittentes semina sua.

Venientes autem venient cum exultatione * portantes manipulos suos.

Gloria Patri, &c.

Ant. In universa terra admirabile est nomen tuum, O Maria.

Ant. Annuntiaverunt.

A. Ps. 122.

Ad te levavi oculos meos, * qui habitas in cœlis.

Ecce sicut oculi servorum * in manibus dominorum suorum.

Sicut oculi ancillæ in manibus dominæ suæ; * ita oculi nostri ad Dominum Deum nostrum, donec misereatur nostri.

Miserere nostri Domine, miserere nostri, * quia multum repleti sumus despectione.

Quia multum repleta est anima nostra * opprobrium abundantibus, et despectio superbis.

Gloria Patri, &c.

Ant. Annuntiaverunt cœli nomen Mariæ; et viderunt omnes populi gloriam ejus.

V. Sit nomen Virginis Mariæs benedictum,

R. Ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum.

Oremus.

Concede quæsumus, omnipotens Deus, ut fideles tui, qui sub sanctissimæ Virginis Mariæ nomine, et protectione lætantur; ejus pia intercessione a cunctis malis liberentur in terris, et ad gaudia æterna pervenire mereantur in cœlis. Per Dominum, &c.

TRANSLATION.

V. Blessed be the name of Mary the Virgin,

R. From henceforth and for evermore.

Let us pray.

Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we Thy faithful people, who rejoice in the name and protection of the most holy Virgin Mary, may by her loving intercession be delivered from all evils here on earth, and be made worthy to attain eternal glory in the life to come. Through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.