Immaculate Conception hymns

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The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is December 8th.
What hymns do you like to see being sung on this day?

:harp::harp::harp::harp:
 
Mary Immaculate Star of the Morning

"Bend from your throne at the voice of our crying.

Look to this earth where your footsteps have trod.

Stretch out your arms to us, living and dying,

Mary Immaculate, Mother of God."
 
This may be borderline sacrilege, but anytime I hear “Hail Holy Queen” sung at mass I cannot help but think of the Rock and Roll version Whoopi Goldberg and the other nuns performed in the movie Sister Act.

Yeah, yeah. I know. Three Our Fathers and Three Hail Marys…:gopray2:
 
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This may be borderline sacrilege, but anytime I hear “Hail Holy Queen” sung at mass I cannot help but think of the Rock and Roll version Whoopi Goldberg and the other nuns performed in the movie Sister Act.

Yeah, yeah. I know. Three Our Fathers and Three Hail Marys…:gopray2:
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LOL, I have to agree. I always think of that movie whenever we sing HHQ.

Being stuck with an OCP missal, we always resort to the same hymns on Marian feasts/solemnities. That includes: Immaculate Mary, Hail, Holy Queen, and Sing of Mary. I would love it if OCP would add to its Marian hymnody.
 
This has become one of my all-time Marian favorites ever since I first heard it a year and a half ago:

It’s called Salve Mater Misericordiae.

I don’t know that it is literally proper to the feast of the Immaculate Conception, but I imagine it is appropriate for any Marian feast day.

If you wish, enjoy a beautiful recording via this youtube video:youtube.com/watch?v=iuEkEGQvJ0A, which sounds like it is chanted by some monks. Which is the best sounding chant, in my opinion 🙂

Translation:

(Refrain)
Salve, mater misericórdiae,
Mater Dei et mater véniae,
Mater spei et mater grátiae,
Mater plena sanctae laetitiae,
O Maria!

Hail mother of mercy,
mother of God and mother of pardon,
mother of hope and mother of grace,
mother full of holy gladness.
O Mary!

First two verses:
  1. Salve decus humani generis.
    Salve Virgo dignior ceteris,
    quae virgines omnes transgrederis
    et altius sedes in superis.
    O Maria!
  2. Salve felix Virgo puerpera:
    Nam qui sedet in Patris dextera,
    Caelum regens, terram et aethera,
    Intra tua se clausit viscera.
    O Maria!
  3. Hail, honour of the mankind.
    Hail worthier Virgin than the other ones
    because you overcome all of them
    and in the heaven you occupy
    the highest seat of honour.
    O Mary!
  4. Hail Blest Virgin yet bearing child:
    For he who sits at the Father’s right hand.
    The ruler of heaven, of earth and sky,
    has sheltered Himself in your womb.
    O Mary!
 
There is a hymn I’ve only heard at the national shrine in dc on the feast of Our Lady. I forget the tune but the 1st verse is:

Come let us bow down
And acclaim our Maker
Boundless in wonder
Bountiful in mercy
Who has bestowed upon
Mary ever-virgin
Grace without measure

If you search on YouTube for the feast day mass at the shrine you will hear this song as the processional.
 
For Mary, Mother of Our Lord
Hail O Star that pointest.
 
Sing We of the Blessed Mother was used as the Entrance Hymn at the Immaculate Conception Mass.
 
In our school’s institutional Mass, we sang Ang Puso ko’y Nagpupuri (Filipino Version of Magnificat) as our entrance hymn.
 
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