Alma redemptoris Mater

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Alma Redemptoris Mater, sung by the Cathedral Singers, conducted by Richard Proulx.

Alma Redemptoris Mater,
quae pervia caeli porta manes,
Et stella maris,
succurre cadenti
surgere qui curat populo:
Tu quae genuisti,
natura mirante,
tuum sanctum Genitorem:
Virgo prius ac posterius,
Gabrielis ab ore
sumens illud Ave,
peccatorum miserere.

Translation:
Sweet Mother of the Redeemer,
that passage to heaven, 
gate of the morning, 
and star of the sea:
Assist the fallen, 
lift up, you who cure, the people: 
you who bore to the wonderment of nature, 
your holy Creator.
Virgin before and after, 
who received from Gabriel 
that joyful greeting, 
have mercy on us sinners.