Memento Rerum Conditor - hymn from the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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This is the most common hymn in the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. My kids know this one off by heart from singing Prime most mornings.

It's also a redux of my most popular video on YouTube. I think because it was the first recording of that hymn on that platform.

1. Memento, rerum Conditor,
Nostri quod olim corporis,
Sacrata ab alvo Virginis
Nascendo, formam sumpseris.

2. Maria mater gratiae
dulcis parens clementiae
tu nos ab hoste protege
et mortis hora suscipe

3. Jesu tibi sit gloria
qui natus es de Virgine
cum patre et almo Spiritu
in sempiterna saecula.
Amen.

and an English version:

Remember, O Creator Lord,
that in the Virgin’s sacred womb
Thou wast conceived, and of her flesh
didst our mortality assume.

Mother of grace, O Mary blest,
to thee, sweet fount of love, we fly;
shield us through life, and take us hence
to thy dear bosom when we die.

O Jesu! born of Mary bright!
Immortal glory be to Thee;
praise to the Father infinite,
and Holy Ghost eternally. Amen.

For more info on Singing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary see my course:
https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au