We continue with Johnny's recording debut. Last episode featured Ojcze nasz, Our Father. This time we consider Zdrowaś Marjo, the recitation of which runs from 0:55 to 1:30.
Zdrowaśka is the name of the prayer itself: Ave Maria, or "Hail Mary".
It starts off with the greeting attributed to the Angel Gabriel:
Zdrowaś Marjo, łaskiś pełna, Pan z tobą!
AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum.
Hail, Mary, full of grace! The Lord is with thee!
Next it offers a different greeting to Mary, this one given to her as she approaches the front door of her cousin Elizabeth's house, to stay and help her out during Elizabeth's last trimester of pregnancy with the future John the Baptist:
Błogosławionaś Ty między niewiastami,
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
Blessed art thous among women,
i błogosławion owoc żywota Twojego, Jezus.
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
(I repeated this prayer for several years as "FROO dove THY woom". Finally I figured out what the words were and meant. In the meantime the adults surrounding me were spared being asked strange questions. But instantly on figuring it out I pounced on Sister Mary Ora and demanded to know why Mary married Joseph. Shouldn't she have married God? Wait, why hadn't she married God previously? Sister Mary Ora kept herself together there in Sunday school class, but the convent walls must have rung with laughter later on.)
The prayer concludes with direct speech from the person to Mary, asking for her intercession with her Son on behalf of the supplicant:
święta Marjo, Matko Boża, módl się za nami grzesznymi
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,
teraz i w godzinę śmierci naszej! Amen.
nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
now, and in the hour of our death. Amen.
The particulars of the Annunciation are expressed very beautifully in the Advent hymn Archanioł Boży Gabryjel.
And then of course, Gounod set the prayer to a Bach Prelude, transfixing hearers with the beauty ever since.
Kocham was -
Julie
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