The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception

℣ O Lady, make speed to befriend me.
℟ From the hands of the enemy mightily defend me.
℣ Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
℟ Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum.—Amen.

Allelúia.
From Septuagesima to Easter, instead of Alleluia, is said:
Laus tibi, Dómine, Rex ætérnæ glóriæ.

Psalm 109

The Lord said to Our Lady: Sit at my right hand, O my Mother! Goodness and sanctity have pleased thee: therefore thou shalt reign with me forever. The crown of immortality is on thy holy head: whose brightness and glory shall not be extinguished. Have mercy on us, O Lady, mother of light and splendor: enlighten us, O Lady of truth and virtue. From thy treasures pour into us the wisdom of God: and the understanding of prudence, and the model of discipline.

Glory be to the Father, etc.

Hymn

Hail, dial of Achaz!
On thee the true sun
Told backward the course
Which from old he had run.
And that man might be rais'd.
Submitting to shame,
A little more low
Than the Angels became.
Thou, wrapt in the blaze
Of His infinite light,
Dost shine as the morn
On the confines of night.
As the moon on the lost
Through obscurity dawns:
The serpent's destroyer!
A lily 'mid thorns! Amen.

℣ I made an unfailing light to arise in heaven.
℟ And, as a mist, I overspread the whole earth.
℣ Dómina, exáudi oratiónem meam.
℟ Et clamor meus ad te véniat.

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.

℣ Dómina, exáudi oratiónem meam.
℟ Et clamor meus ad te véniat.
℣ Benedicámus Dómino.
℟ Deo grátias.
℣ Fidélium ánimæ per misericórdiam Dei requiéscant in pace.
℟ Amen.