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REGINA CAELI

Queen of Heaven

Regina Caeli ('Queen of Heaven, rejoice') is the joyful Marian antiphon of Eastertide, sung at Compline from Easter Sunday through Pentecost Saturday. Its four-fold Alleluia expresses paschal joy. According to legend, Pope St. Gregory the Great heard angels singing this antiphon during a plague in Rome. It replaces the Angelus during Eastertide.

LATINE
Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia.
Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia.
Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia.
Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.
V. Gaude et laetare, Virgo Maria, alleluia.
R. Quia surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia.
Oremus.
Deus, qui per resurrectionem Filii tui, Domini nostri Jesu Christi,
mundum laetificare dignatus es:
praesta, quaesumus, ut per ejus Genetricem Virginem Mariam,
perpetua capiamus gaudia vitae.
Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
ENGLISH
Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia.
For He whom you did merit to bear, alleluia.
Has risen, as He said, alleluia.
Pray for us to God, alleluia.
V. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia.
R. For the Lord has truly risen, alleluia.
Let us pray.
O God, who gave joy to the world through the resurrection of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
grant, we beseech Thee,
that through His Mother, the Virgin Mary,
we may obtain the joys of everlasting life.
Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Replaces Angelus during Eastertide; Compline antiphon Easter to Pentecost
CONTEXT
One of the four seasonal Marian antiphons. Legend attributes its composition to Pope St. Gregory the Great during a plague in Rome.