That "Hail Holy Queen" is the sublime hymn "Salve Regina" in Latin. We sang that at the end of night prayers, every night during my eight years in a Catholic seminary in Milwaukee. We turned out all the lights in chapel except for the one on the statue of Mary, and sang a cappella with a couple hundred male voices. It was absolutely beautiful, every night.

Of course, we warmed up for night prayers by huddling outside the chapel and smoking, singing Engerbert Humperdinck songs.....

Ya gotta mix a little tacky with your sublime.

-Joe Offer-