English Prayers & Instructions
- Opening Prayer
Most beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, Fruitful Vine, Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in this my necessity.
Mention your request here.
O Star of the Sea, help me and show me herein that you are my Mother. Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart, to succor me in this necessity.
- Our Father
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done,
on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
- Hail Mary
Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
- Glory Be
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.
- Hail Mary, followed by a pryer to Our Lady Star of the Sea (twelve times)
After saying each Hail Mary, follow it with the following
Our Lady Star of the Sea, help and protect us!
Sweet Mother, I place this cause in your hand.
- Closing Prayer
Hail, bright star of ocean, God’s own Mother blest, ever sinless Virgin, Gate of heavenly rest. Taking that sweet Ave, which from Gabriel came, peace confirm within us, changing Eva’s name. Break the captives’ fetters, light on blindness pour, all our ills expelling, every bliss implore. Show thyself a Mother; may the Word Divine, born for us thy Infant, hear our prayers through thine. Virgin all excelling, mildest of the mild, freed from guilt, preserve us, pure and undefiled. Keep our life all spotless, make our way secure, till we find in Jesus joy forevermore. Through the highest heaven to the Almighty Three, Father, Son, and Spirit, one same glory be. Amen.
Latin Prayers & Instructions
- Opening Prayer
Flos Carmeli, Vitis florigera, Splendor caeli, Virgo puerpera singularis. Mater mitis sed a viro nescis, Carmelitis da privilegia, Stella Maris.
Mention your request here.
O Stella Maris, adiuva me et in hoc ostende te esse Matrem meam. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Regina Caeli et terrae, ex toto corde meo humiliter te deprecor, ut me in hac necessitate adiuves.
- Our Father
Pater noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra.
Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
- Hail Mary
Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
- Glory Be
Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
- Hail Mary, followed by a prayer to Our Lady Star of the Sea (twelve times)
After saying each Hail Mary, follow it with the following
Nostra Domina, Stella Maris, adiuva et protege nos! Dulcis Mater, hanc causam in manus tuas pono.
- Closing Prayer (Ave Maris Stella)
Ave, maris stella, Dei Mater alma, atque semper Virgo, felix caeli porta. Sumens illud Ave Gabrielis ore, funda nos in pace, mutans Evae nomen. Solve vincla reis, profer lumen caecis, mala nostra pelle, bona cuncta posce. Monstra te esse matrem: sumat per te preces, qui pro nobis natus, tulit esse tuus. Virgo singularis, inter omnes mitis, nos culpis solutos, mites fac et castos. Vitam praesta puram, iter para tutum: ut videntes Iesum, semper collaetemur. Sit laus Deo Patri, summo Christo decus, Spiritui Sancto, tribus honor unus. Amen.
About this Chaplet
Our Lady Star of the Sea is one of the many titles given to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Star of the Sea, Stella Maris in Latin, origates from the 4th century with St. Jerome’s Liber de Nominibus Hebraicis (The Book of Hebrew Names), where he provides an etymological history of Mary’s name. One of his translations for the Hebrew word Mar (drop) and Yam (sea) was “stilla maris” meaning “a drop of the sea.”
Historical scholars and paleographers generally agree that a medieval copyist, likely around the 5th or 6th century, misread the “i” in stilla for an “e,” resulting in “stella maris” (Star of the Sea). Because “Star of the Sea” carried such powerful poetic and navigational symbolism, this version became the standard in later manuscripts. By the time of St. Isidore of Seville in the 7th century, the “Star of the Sea” etymology was already being cited as the primary meaning.