Rorate Caeli

Ave Regina caelorum

 

Ave, Regina caelorum,
Ave, Domina Angelorum:
Salve, radix, salve, porta
Ex qua mundo lux est orta:

Gaude, Virgo gloriosa,
Super omnes speciosa,
Vale, o valde decora,
Et pro nobis Christum exora.


(Photo: High altar of Saint Francis de Sales in Benedict, Maryland, with Our Lady crowned for May devotions.)