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On this day before our wedding, this Friday in Advent,
I am especially thoughtful of Our Lady and how one Good Friday,
she was not to be consoled.
I ask her to place this marriage ever so close to her heart,
and within the folds of her mantle.

Kelly has chosen the 'Ave Maria' to be sung
while she and Jordan consecrate their marriage to her care.
I remember well hearing Cathy C. sing this during a Mass offered by Archbishop Beltran
for our home school families at Saint Monica's, years ago.
Cathy introduced Jordan and Kelly years later during the Triduum festivities
at Clear Creek Monastery.
As I hear this angelic psalter sung on Saturday,
I will be remembering all our friends who could not attend,
and especially Cathy for her gift of song and intuitions of love.

Ave Maria Gratia plena
Maria Gratia plena
Maria Gratia plena
Ave, ave dominus
Dominus tecum

Benedicta tu in mulieribus
Et benedictus
Et benedictus fructus ventris
Ventris tui Jesus

Ave Maria
Ave Maria Mater dei
Ora pro nobis pecatoribus
Ora, ora pro nobis
Ora ora pro nobis pecatoribus

Nunc et in hora mortis
In hora mortis, mortis nostrae
In hora mortis nostrae
Ave Maria!

Ave Maria Prayer : The Latin text of the Ave Maria prayer
set to the music by Franz Schubert

Ave Maria
German translation by Adam Storck from
"The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott

Ave Maria! Ave Maria! maiden mild!
Listen to a maiden's prayer!
Thou canst hear though from the wild,
Thou canst save amid despair.
Safe may we sleep beneath thy care,
Though banish'd, outcast and reviled -
Maiden! hear a maiden's prayer;
Mother, hear a suppliant child!
Ave Maria!

Ave Maria! undefiled!
The flinty couch we now must share
Shall seem this down of eider piled,
If thy protection hover there.
The murky cavern's heavy air
Shall breathe of balm if thou hast smiled;
Then, Maiden! hear a maiden's prayer;
Mother, list a suppliant child!
Ave Maria!

Ave Maria! stainless styled!
Foul demons of the earth and air,
From this their wonted haunt exiled,
Shall flee before thy presence fair.
We bow us to our lot of care,
Beneath thy guidance reconciled;
Hear for a maid a maiden's prayer,
And for a father hear a child!
Ave Maria!

Ave Maria
German translation by Adam Storck from
"The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott

Hail, Mary,
Full of Grace
The Lord is with you
Blessed are you among women
and blessed is the fruit of your womb,
Jesus
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
now, and at the hour of our death.
Amen.