Little Office of the Immaculate Conception

TERCE (Third Hour)

AT TIERCE

V. O LADY! make speed to befriend me.

R. From the hands of the enemy mightily defend me.

V. Glory be to the Father, etc. Alleluia.

Hymn

HAIL, Solomon's Throne!

Pure Ark of the law

Fair Rainbow and Bush,

Which the patriarch saw!

Hail, Gedeon's Fleece!

Hail, blossoming Rod,

Samson's sweet Honeycomb!

Portal of God!

Well-fitting it was

That a Son so Divine

Should preserve from all touch

Of original sin,

Nor suffer by smallest

Defect to be stained

That Mother, whom He

For Himself had ordained.

Amen.

V. I dwell in the highest

R. And my throne is on the pillar of the clouds.

Let us pray

HOLY Mary, Queen of Heaven, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ,

and Mistress of the world, who forsakest no one, and despisest no one,

look upon me, O Lady! with an eye of pity, and entreat for me, of thy beloved Son,

the forgiveness of all my sins, that, as I now celebrate, with devout affection,

thy holy and Immaculate Conception, so, hereafter, I may receive

the prize of eternal blessedness, by the grace of Him Whom thou, in virginity,

didst bring forth, Jesus Christ our Lord: Who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost,

liveth and reigneth, in perfect Trinity, God, world without end. Amen.

V. O Lady! aid my prayer.

R. And let my cry come unto thee.

V. Let us bless the Lord.

R. Thanks be to God.

V. May the souls of the faithful,

through the mercy of God,

rest in peace.

R. Amen.