Ave to address Our Lady like the Angel Gabriel

(Vatican Radio)  Monsignor Philip Whitmore brings you a musical  meditation to mark the month of May. As he tells us we know lots of hymns that use 'Ave' to address Our Lady. Whenever we greet her with that  word, we're recalling the greeting of the Angel Gabriel used and making it our own. But why don't you listen to the sumptuous arrangement of that haunting plainsong 'Ave Maris Stella' made by the great 17th century Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi which comes in his setting of Vespers to Our Lady. 

A programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick for the series 'Music to Watch Angels By'.