Loving Mother of the Redeemer

The Marian antiphon sung at Compline from the First Sunday of Advent through the Feast of the Presentation (February 2).

Loving Mother of the Redeemer,

who remainest the ever-open gate of heaven,

and star of the sea:

succor thy people who fall,

yet strive to rise again.

Thou who, to the wonderment of nature,

didst bring forth thy holy Creator,

remaining a Virgin after as before,

who from Gabriel's lips didst receive that joyful greeting,

have mercy upon us sinners.

Alma Redemptóris Mater, quæ pérvia cæli

porta manes, et stella maris, succúrre cadénti,

súrgere qui curat, pópulo: tu quæ genuísti,

natúra miránte, tuum sanctum Genitórem,

Virgo prius ac postérius, Gabriélis ab ore

sumens illud Ave, peccatórum miserére.