Repost: Notre-Dame d'Espérance de Pontmain

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The following post appeared in January of A.D. 2014.  It seemed wise to print it again in anticipation of Candlemas on 2 February and also to increase knowledge of Our Lady of Hope and the apparition of Notre-Dame d'Espérance de Pontmain. Added to the original is the beautiful "Inviolata" and a YouTube recording of "Inviolata" and "Gaudio" by the group Psallentes:

Be sure to read a beautiful post by the Prior of Silverstream Priory, Ireland regarding Our Most Beautiful Mother who appeared at Pontmain as Our Lady of Hope.  

The anniversary of her apparition occurred on 17 January, but there is something about this apparition of the Blessed Mother, Our Lady of Hope, that always speaks to me of the full message of Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple. I hope that with prayer and some contemplation it may likewise speak to you.  

So I post this link here to the Prior's article here for your contemplation in anticipation of the great feast of Candlemas which we celebrate this Sunday, 2 February 2014.

Be sure to support the monks of Silverstream Priory, Stamullen, Ireland.

Très douce Vierge Marie,

Tu as dans ton apparition à Pontmain,

rappelé l’importance de la prière,

fortifié en nos cœurs l’Espérance

et apporté la Paix.

Daigne accueillir favorablement aujourd’hui

la prière ardente que nous t’adressons

pour que s’établisse dans nos cœurs, nos familles,

notre Nation et toutes les Nations,

la PAIX, 

fruit de la justice, de la vérité, de la charité.

Augmente en nos âmes le désir de vivre pleinement notre foi,

sans aucune compromission, dans toutes les circonstances de notre vie.

Aide-nous à toujours comprendre les autres

et à les aimer profondément en Dieu. Amen.

Inviolata, integra, et casta es Maria,

quae es effecta fulgida caeli porta.

O Mater alma Christi carissima,

suscipe pia laudum praeconia.

Te nunc flagitant devota corda et ora,

nostra ut pura pectora sint et corpora.

Tu per precata dulcisona,

nobis concedas veniam per saecula.

O benigna! O Regina! O Maria,

quae sola inviolata permansisti.

"Inviolata"  and "Gaudio" from a late mediaeval Bruges Processionale

Psallentes

Hendrick Vanden Abeele, director

Ave, dulcissima Maria!+