Prayer for the Nativity of Our Lady

A Prayer By St. Anselm of Canterbury

I’m sharing with you the Prayer in Honor of the Nativity of Our Lady.  This prayer is written by St. Anselm of Canterbury during the 12th Century.  I came across this prayer a long time ago.  Here it is:

Vouchsafe that I may praise thee, O sacred Virgin; give me strength against thine enemies, and against the enemy of the whole human race. Give me strength humbly to pray to thee. Give me strength to praise thee in prayer with all my powers, through the merits of thy most sacred nativity, which for the entire Christian world was a birth of joy, the hope and solace of its life.

When thou wast born, O most holy Virgin, then was the world made light.

Happy is thy stock, holy thy root, and blessed thy fruit, for thou alone as a virgin, filled with the Holy Spirit, didst merit to conceive thy God, as a virgin to bear Thy God, as a virgin to bring Him forth, and after His birth to remain a virgin.

Have mercy therefore upon me a sinner, and give me aid, O Lady, so that just as thy nativity, glorious from the seed of Abraham, sprung from the tribe of Juda, illustrious from the stock of David, didst announce joy to the entire world, so may it fill me with true joy and cleanse me from every sin.

Pray for me, O Virgin most prudent, that the gladsome joys of thy most helpful nativity may put a cloak over all my sins.

O holy Mother of God, flowering as the lily, pray to thy sweet Son for me, a wretched sinner.

 

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The Day of the Birth of Our Blessed Mother, the Virgin Mary, is one of the most important days for us Catholics.  Just as we celebrate our own mother’s birthday, it’s even more significant to do so for our heavenly Mother, who is the Mother of God, Jesus Christ.  Please remember to recite this prayer every year.

Amen.

Mary Kris I. Figueroa

1 Comment on Prayer for the Nativity of Our Lady

  1. Hello Mary,
    Thank you for sharing this. I found this page and recited the prayer with my wife today on Our Lady’s Nativity. May God bless you.
    Greetings from Canada.
    José

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