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Princeps gloriosissime, Gabriel Archangele

Commemoration of St. Gabriel (Antiphon and Collect)

Roman Breviary, feast of St. Gabriel (24 March in the old calendar)

The antiphon, versicle and collect of St. Gabriel's feast from the Roman Breviary: 'O God, who among all the angels didst choose the Archangel Gabriel to announce the mystery of thine Incarnation'.

The Prayer · Multiple Versions
Latin · Original
Ant. Princeps gloriosissime, Gabriel Archangele, esto memor nostri: hic et ubique semper precare pro nobis Filium Dei, alleluia, alleluia.

V. Stetit Angelus iuxta aram templi.
R. Habens turibulum aureum in manu sua.

Oremus.
Deus, qui inter ceteros Angelos, ad annuntiandum incarnationis tuae mysterium, Gabrielem Archangelum elegisti; concede propitius, ut qui festum eius celebramus in terris, ipsius patrocinium sentiamus in caelis: qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
English
Ant. Most glorious Prince, Gabriel the Archangel, be mindful of us: pray for us always, both here and everywhere, to the Son of God, alleluia, alleluia.

V. An angel stood beside the altar of the temple.
R. Having a golden censer in his hand.

Let us pray.
O God, who among all the angels didst choose the Archangel Gabriel to announce the mystery of thine Incarnation: mercifully grant that we who keep his feast on earth may feel his patronage in heaven. Who livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen.
When the Prayer is Said

On the feast of the archangels; at the Annunciation; at the close of a novena to St. Gabriel.

History & Background

Gabriel's feast was placed on 24 March by Benedict XV in 1921, the day before the Annunciation whose messenger he was, and there it stayed until the calendar of 1969 gathered the archangels on 29 September. The collect of that Office is the Church's plainest statement of why Gabriel is honoured: of all the angels he was the one chosen to announce the Incarnation.

The Latin is that of the Breviary; the English of the antiphon follows the Raccolta's rendering of the parallel antiphon for St. Michael, and the versicle and collect are our own translation.

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St. Gabriel the Archangel
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