Deus, qui de beatae Mariae Virginis utero, Verbum Tuum, Angelo
nuntiante, carnem suscipere voluisti: praesta supplicibus Tuis ut qui
vere eam Genitricem Dei credimus, ejus apud Te intercessionibus
adjuvemur.
O God Who didst please that Thy Word should take flesh, at the message
of an Angel, in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary; grant to Thy
suppliants that we who believe her to be truly the Mother of God, may be
helped by her intercession.
(Collect for the Annunciation, said at Mass every day during
Advent.)
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui gloriosae Virginis Matris Mariae corpus
et animam, ut dignum Filii tui habitaculum effici mereretur, Spiritu
sancto cooperante, praeparasti: da, ut cujus commemoratione laetamur,
ejus pia intercessione, ab instantibus malis, et a morte perpetua
liberemur.
Almighty, everlasting God, Who by the co-operation of the Holy Ghost
didst prepare the body and soul of the glorious Virgin Mother Mary to
become a habitation meet for Thy Son; grant that as we rejoice in her
commemoration, we may, by her loving intercession, be delivered from
present evils and from everlasting death.
(Collect said at Office after the _Salve Regina_.)
Conscientias nostras, quaesumus Domine, visitando purifica, ut veniens
JESUS Christus Filius Tuus Dominus noster cum omnibus Sanctis, paratam
Sibi in nobis inveniat mansionem.
Purify our consciences, we beseech Thee O Lord, by Thy visitation, that
when Thy Son JESUS Christ our Lord shall come with all His Saints, He
may find a mansion prepared in us for Himself.
(Little Office B. V. M. Vespers for Advent.)