Prayer Meme Keeps on Keeping On

Hey folks,

We’ve been tagged by friend Bob Rice in a prayer meme, to list our three favorite prayers.  He was tagged by the catholicymblog, and you can trace more of its genealogy there.

As Orin is composing this post without Shannon around, I’ll only list two favorite prayers, and let him add one in the comments!

Orin’s favorite prayer #1: Glory Be – I like it as being so simple and complex in its brevity.  An expression of praise, of trinitarian belief, of eschatology, and of the eternal nature of God.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end, amen.

Orin’s favorite prayer #2: Salve Regina – a beautiful chant melody to a beautiful prayer asking the blessed mother’s intercession for us, especially upon our death.  In English, it’s the “Hail, Holy Queen.”  (Listen to it here.)

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae,

vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.

ad te clamamus

exsules filii Evae,

ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes

in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia, ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos

misericordes oculos ad nos converte;

et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,

nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.

O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.

We’ll wait for Shannon to chime in, in the comments, with favorite prayer #3.  Now, Orin has another favorite prayer, but it just didn’t seem right to officially list it here, but here it is, as a “bonus” favorite prayer!

Bless us O lord, and these thy gifts,
which we are about to receive from thy bounty,
through Christ our Lord, Amen.

The trickiest part of this whole exercise was tagging 5 more bloggers who haven’t already been tagged! How about: lolsaints.com, popple, claytonimoo.com, JohnBigJohn, and (while not strictly a blog) Bryan Murdaugh.  Go get ’em, folks!