SALVE REGINA (Hail, Holy Queen) (Latin song)

- a Marian antiphon/hymn said or sung at different seasons within the Christian liturgical calendar; said or sung from the end of Easter season (day after Pentecost) until the beginning of Advent (Friday before the fourth Sunday before Christmas)

LATIN:
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiæ,
vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevæ,
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia, ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos
misericordes oculos ad nos converte;
Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.

ENGLISH:
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,
hail our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve;
to thee do we send up our sighs,
mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.

Turn then, most gracious advocate,
thine eyes of mercy toward us;
and after this our exile,
show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

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for more information, please visit:
- http://www.catholicchant.com/salveregina.html
- http://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/maryd6d.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salve_Regina
- http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/resources/antiph4.html
- http://www.ewtn.com/library/prayer/latrosar.htm