Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Christe, eleison. Christe, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison.
Christe, audi nos. Christe, exaudi nos. Pater de caelis, Deus, miserere nobis. Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus, miserere nobis. Spiritus Sancte, Deus, miserere nobis. Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, miserere nobis.
Responsum: ora pro nobis
Sancta Maria, Sancta Dei Genitrix, Sancta Virgo virginum, Sancte Michael, Sancte Gabriel, Sancte Raphael, Omnes sancti Angeli et Archangeli, Omnes sancti beatorum Spirituum ordines, Sancte Ioannes Baptista, Sancte Ioseph, Omnes sancti Patriarchae et Prophetae, Sancte Petre, Sancte Paule, Sancte Andrea, Sancte Iacobe, Sancte Ioannes, Sancte Thoma, Sancte Iacobe, Sancte Philippe, Sancte Bartholomaee, Sancte Matthaee, Sancte Simon, Sancte Thaddaee, Sancte Line, Sancte Clete, Sancte Clemens, Sancte Sixte, Sancte Corneli, Sancte Cypriane, Sancte Laurenti, Sancte Chrysogone, Sancti Ioannes et Paule, Sancti Cosma et Damiane, Omnes sancti Apostoli et Evangelistae, Omnes sancti Discipuli Domini, Omnes sancti Innocentes, Sancte Stephane, Sancte Matthia, Sancte Barnaba, Sancte Ignati, Sancte Alexander, Sancte Marccelline, Sancte Petre, Sancta Felicitas, Sancta Perpetua, Sancta Agatha, Sancta Lucia, Sancta Agnes, Sancta Caecilia, Sancta Anastasia, Omnes sancti Martyres, Sancte Silvester, Sancte Gregori, Sancte Ambrosi, Sancte Augustine, Sancte Hieronyme, Sancte Martine, Sancte Nicolae, Omnes sancti Pontifices et Confessores, Omnes sancti Doctores, Sancte Antoni, Sancte Benedicte, Sancte Bernarde, Sancte Dominice, Sancte Francisce, Omnes sancti Sacerdotes et Levitae, Omnes sancti Monachi et Eremitae, Sancta Maria Magdalena, Sancta Agatha, Sancta Lucia, Sancta Agnes, Sancta Caecilia, Sancta Catharina, Sancta Anastasia, Omnes sanctae Virgines et Viduae, Omnes Sancti et Sanctae Dei,
Responsum: libera nos, Domine
Ab omni malo, Ab omni peccato, Ab ira tua, A subitanea et improvisa morte, Ab insidiis diaboli, Ab ira, et odio, et omni mala voluntate, A spiritu fornicationis, A fulgure et tempestate, A flagello terraemotus, A peste, fame et bello, A morte perpetua,
Responsum: te rogamus, audi nos
Per mysterium sanctae incarnationis tuae, Per adventum tuum, Per nativitatem tuam, Per baptismum et sanctum ieiunium tuum, Per crucem et passionem tuam, Per mortem et sepulturam tuam, Per sanctam resurrectionem tuam, Per admirabilem ascensionem tuam, Per adventum Spiritus Sancti Paracliti, In die iudicii, Ut nobis parcas, Ut nobis indulgeas, Ut ad veram paenitentiam nos perducere digneris, Ut Ecclesiam tuam sanctam regere et conservare digneris, Ut Apostolicum Praesulum et omnes ecclesiasticos ordines in sancta religione conservare digneris, Ut inimicos sanctae Ecclesiae humiliare digneris, Ut regibus et principibus christianis pacem et veram concordiam donare digneris, Ut cuncto populo christiano pacem et unitatem largiri digneris, Ut omnes errantes ad unitatem Ecclesiae revocare digneris, Ut nosmetipsos in tuo sancto servitio confortare et conservare digneris, Ut mentes nostras ad caelestia desideria erigas, Ut omnibus benefactoribus nostris sempiterna bona retribuas, Ut animas nostras, fratrum, propinquorum et benefactorum nostrorum ab aeterna damnatione eripias, Ut fructus terrae dare et conservare digneris, Ut omnibus fidelibus defunctis requiem aeternam donare digneris, Ut nos exaudire digneris, Fili Dei,
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, parce nobis, Domine. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, exaudi nos, Domine. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Christe, audi nos. Christe, exaudi nos. Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Christe, eleison. Christe, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison.
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us. God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us. God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us. Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.
Response: pray for us
Holy Mary, Holy Mother of God, Holy Virgin of virgins, Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel, Saint Raphael, All ye holy Angels and Archangels, All ye holy orders of blessed Spirits, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Joseph, All ye holy Patriarchs and Prophets,
Saint Peter, Saint Paul, Saint Andrew, Saint James, Saint John, Saint Thomas, Saint James, Saint Philip, Saint Bartholomew, Saint Matthew, Saint Simon, Saint Thaddeus, Saint Linus, Saint Cletus, Saint Clement, Saint Sixtus, Saint Cornelius, Saint Cyprian, Saint Lawrence, Saint Chrysogonus, Saint John and Paul, Saint Cosmas and Damian, All ye holy Apostles and Evangelists, All ye holy Disciples of the Lord, All ye holy Innocents,
Saint Stephen, Saint Matthias, Saint Barnabas, Saint Ignatius, Saint Alexander, Saint Marcellinus, Saint Peter, Saint Felicitas, Saint Perpetua, Saint Agatha, Saint Lucy, Saint Agnes, Saint Cecilia, Saint Anastasia, All ye holy Martyrs,
Saint Sylvester, Saint Gregory, Saint Ambrose, Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome, Saint Martin, Saint Nicholas, All ye holy Bishops and Confessors, All ye holy Doctors,
Saint Anthony, Saint Benedict, Saint Bernard, Saint Dominic, Saint Francis, All ye holy Priests and Levites, All ye holy Monks and Hermits,
Saint Mary Magdalen, Saint Agatha, Saint Lucy, Saint Agnes, Saint Cecilia, Saint Catherine, Saint Anastasia, All ye holy Virgins and Widows, All ye Saints of God,
Response: deliver us, O Lord
From all evil, From all sin, From Thy wrath, From sudden and unprovided death, From the snares of the devil, From anger, hatred, and all ill-will, From the spirit of fornication, From lightning and tempest, From the scourge of earthquake, From plague, famine, and war, From everlasting death,
Response: we beseech Thee, hear us
By the mystery of Thy holy Incarnation, By Thy Coming, By Thy Nativity, By Thy Baptism and holy fasting, By Thy Cross and Passion, By Thy Death and Burial, By Thy holy Resurrection, By Thine admirable Ascension, By the coming of the Holy Ghost the Paraclete, In the day of judgment,
That Thou wouldst spare us, That Thou wouldst pardon us, That Thou wouldst bring us to true penance, That Thou wouldst govern and preserve Thy holy Church, That Thou wouldst preserve our Apostolic Prelate and all orders of the Church in holy religion, That Thou wouldst humble the enemies of holy Church, That Thou wouldst give peace and true concord to Christian kings and princes, That Thou wouldst grant peace and unity to all Christian people, That Thou wouldst restore to the unity of the Church all who have strayed from the truth, That Thou wouldst confirm and preserve us in Thy holy service, That Thou wouldst lift up our minds to heavenly desires, That Thou wouldst render eternal blessings to all our benefactors, That Thou wouldst deliver our souls, and the souls of our brethren, relations, and benefactors, from eternal damnation, That Thou wouldst give and preserve the fruits of the earth, That Thou wouldst grant eternal rest to all the faithful departed, That Thou wouldst graciously hear us, Son of God,
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord. Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord. Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
The Litany of the Saints is not a prayer about the saints. It is a prayer to them — or more precisely, through them. When the Church on earth sings Sancte Petre, ora pro nobis — Saint Peter, pray for us — it is doing something with a precise theological logic: it is calling upon a member of the Church who has already arrived at the destination toward which the rest of us are still traveling, and asking him to add his voice to ours. The theology is simple and ancient. The saints are not dead. They are alive in God, more alive than we are, and their charity does not stop at the boundary of death. They pray for us. We ask them to. The Litany of the Saints makes this communion of the Church — stretched across the boundary between time and eternity — audible and tangible. When it is sung at the Easter Vigil, with candidates lying prostrate on the floor, it is one of the most viscerally powerful moments in the Catholic liturgical year.
A Brief Theology of Asking the Saints to Pray
The most common objection to praying to the saints is that it is unnecessary — God can be approached directly, so why the intermediaries? The Catholic answer is that this objection, taken seriously, would also eliminate asking any living person to pray for you. When you ask a friend to pray for your sick child, you are not implying that God is inaccessible without a human go-between. You are recognizing that prayer is communal, that the Church prays together, and that the prayers of the holy have a particular efficacy — as James 5:16 states plainly: the prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects. The saints are the most righteous of the righteous, refined by a lifetime of holiness and now perfected in the presence of God. To ask them to intercede is not to diminish God. It is to take seriously both the communion of the Church and the power of intercession. The deeper question is not whether we can approach God directly — we can, and we do — but whether we also travel in company.
Origins: From House Church to Solemn Procession
The litany form itself predates Christianity. Responsorial petitions appear in ancient Near Eastern religious texts, in Greek religious practice, and throughout the Psalter. But the Christian litany as a formal liturgical structure developed rapidly in the 4th and 5th centuries as Christianity moved from house churches into the public square. Pope Gregory the Great (590–604) is particularly associated with organizing solemn litany processions through the streets of Rome — the people singing Kyrie eleison while walking barefoot in penance, imploring God and the saints during plagues and disasters. The Litany of the Saints in something like its recognizable form appears in documents from at least the 8th century, though its roots are clearly earlier. It was adopted into the Roman Rite's most solemn occasions — baptism, ordination, religious profession, the blessing of abbots — because these moments of threshold-crossing called for the whole Church, visible and invisible, to be assembled and invoked.
The Structure of the Litany
The Litany of the Saints has a more complex structure than the Litany of Loreto. It begins with the triple Kyrie and the Trinity invocations, then moves through the saints in roughly hierarchical order: Our Lady first, then angels, then the great figures of the Old Testament (John the Baptist, Joseph), then the apostles and their immediate successors, then martyrs, then confessors (bishops, doctors, priests, monks), then holy women. After the saints comes a section of deprecations — petitions for deliverance from evil — where the response shifts from ora pro nobis to libera nos, Domine (deliver us, O Lord). Then the obsecrations, which invoke the saving mysteries of Christ's life (Incarnation, Nativity, Passion, Death, Resurrection, Ascension) as the grounds of our petition. Then the supplications, which make specific requests for the Church, for rulers, for the faithful departed. The Agnus Dei closes the petitionary section, and the Kyrie returns to frame the whole. It is an architectural prayer, moving from praise through intercession through petition to hope.
The Easter Vigil and Ordinations
The Litany of the Saints is sung at two moments in the traditional Roman Rite that carry particular weight. The first is the Easter Vigil, where it accompanies the blessing of the baptismal water and, when there are candidates, their prostration before the font. The candidates lie face-down on the floor — the posture of total surrender — while the Church sings the litany over them, invoking the whole company of heaven to be present at this act of death and rebirth. It is one of the most ancient and theologically charged gestures in the liturgy. The second is ordination to the priesthood, where the candidates lie prostrate on the sanctuary floor while the litany is chanted. The gesture says something that no ordination homily can fully articulate: the man being ordained is not becoming a priest by his own merit or effort. He is being lifted into an office that exceeds him, and the whole Church — in heaven and on earth — is being called to witness and support it.
The Saint List: Fixed and Flexible
The traditional Roman form of the litany has a core list of saints that has remained relatively stable for over a millennium — the apostles, the early popes and martyrs named in the Roman Canon (Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and Damian), the great Latin Fathers (Gregory, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome), the martyrs whose names were known to every Roman Catholic (Stephen, Lawrence, Cecilia, Agnes, Lucy, Anastasia), and the founders of the great religious orders (Anthony, Benedict, Bernard, Dominic, Francis). This core reflects the Church of Rome's specific sanctoral memory — the martyrs buried in the Roman catacombs, the popes who governed the early Church, the theologians who defined its doctrine. Dioceses, religious orders, and national churches have always added their own patrons to the standard list, extending the invocation to their own local portion of the communion of saints.
The Dying and the Dead
The Litany of the Saints belongs not only to the great liturgical occasions but also to the moment of death. The traditional Roman Rite's Ordo Commendationis Animae — the Commendation of the Departing Soul — includes the litany as the dying person's final prayer, or as the prayer of those gathered around the deathbed. The saints are invoked one last time as the soul prepares to cross into the company it has spent a lifetime invoking. Go forth, Christian soul, the prayer begins, and then the litany calls upon everyone already on the other side to accompany the newly arriving soul. It is, in this context, less a petition for help with the difficulties of this life than an introduction — a presentation of the soul to the community it is about to join. The Litany of the Saints is the Church's way of saying: you are not going alone, and you will not arrive as a stranger.
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.
Response: pray for us
Holy Mary,
Holy Mother of God,
Holy Virgin of virgins,
Saint Michael,
Saint Gabriel,
Saint Raphael,
All ye holy Angels and Archangels,
All ye holy orders of blessed Spirits,
Saint John the Baptist,
Saint Joseph,
All ye holy Patriarchs and Prophets,
Saint Peter,
Saint Paul,
Saint Andrew,
Saint James,
Saint John,
Saint Thomas,
Saint James,
Saint Philip,
Saint Bartholomew,
Saint Matthew,
Saint Simon,
Saint Thaddeus,
Saint Linus,
Saint Cletus,
Saint Clement,
Saint Sixtus,
Saint Cornelius,
Saint Cyprian,
Saint Lawrence,
Saint Chrysogonus,
Saint John and Paul,
Saint Cosmas and Damian,
All ye holy Apostles and Evangelists,
All ye holy Disciples of the Lord,
All ye holy Innocents,
Saint Stephen,
Saint Matthias,
Saint Barnabas,
Saint Ignatius,
Saint Alexander,
Saint Marcellinus,
Saint Peter,
Saint Felicitas,
Saint Perpetua,
Saint Agatha,
Saint Lucy,
Saint Agnes,
Saint Cecilia,
Saint Anastasia,
All ye holy Martyrs,
Saint Sylvester,
Saint Gregory,
Saint Ambrose,
Saint Augustine,
Saint Jerome,
Saint Martin,
Saint Nicholas,
All ye holy Bishops and Confessors,
All ye holy Doctors,
Saint Anthony,
Saint Benedict,
Saint Bernard,
Saint Dominic,
Saint Francis,
All ye holy Priests and Levites,
All ye holy Monks and Hermits,
Saint Mary Magdalen,
Saint Agatha,
Saint Lucy,
Saint Agnes,
Saint Cecilia,
Saint Catherine,
Saint Anastasia,
All ye holy Virgins and Widows,
All ye Saints of God,
Response: deliver us, O Lord
From all evil,
From all sin,
From Thy wrath,
From sudden and unprovided death,
From the snares of the devil,
From anger, hatred, and all ill-will,
From the spirit of fornication,
From lightning and tempest,
From the scourge of earthquake,
From plague, famine, and war,
From everlasting death,
Response: we beseech Thee, hear us
By the mystery of Thy holy Incarnation,
By Thy Coming,
By Thy Nativity,
By Thy Baptism and holy fasting,
By Thy Cross and Passion,
By Thy Death and Burial,
By Thy holy Resurrection,
By Thine admirable Ascension,
By the coming of the Holy Ghost the Paraclete,
In the day of judgment,
That Thou wouldst spare us,
That Thou wouldst pardon us,
That Thou wouldst bring us to true penance,
That Thou wouldst govern and preserve Thy holy Church,
That Thou wouldst preserve our Apostolic Prelate and all orders of the Church in holy religion,
That Thou wouldst humble the enemies of holy Church,
That Thou wouldst give peace and true concord to Christian kings and princes,
That Thou wouldst grant peace and unity to all Christian people,
That Thou wouldst restore to the unity of the Church all who have strayed from the truth,
That Thou wouldst confirm and preserve us in Thy holy service,
That Thou wouldst lift up our minds to heavenly desires,
That Thou wouldst render eternal blessings to all our benefactors,
That Thou wouldst deliver our souls, and the souls of our brethren, relations, and benefactors, from eternal damnation,
That Thou wouldst give and preserve the fruits of the earth,
That Thou wouldst grant eternal rest to all the faithful departed,
That Thou wouldst graciously hear us,
Son of God,
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison.
Christe, eleison. Christe, eleison.
Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison.
Christe, audi nos. Christe, exaudi nos.
Pater de caelis, Deus, miserere nobis.
Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus, miserere nobis.
Spiritus Sancte, Deus, miserere nobis.
Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, miserere nobis.
Responsum: ora pro nobis
Sancta Maria,
Sancta Dei Genitrix,
Sancta Virgo virginum,
Sancte Michael,
Sancte Gabriel,
Sancte Raphael,
Omnes sancti Angeli et Archangeli,
Omnes sancti beatorum Spirituum ordines,
Sancte Ioannes Baptista,
Sancte Ioseph,
Omnes sancti Patriarchae et Prophetae,
Sancte Petre,
Sancte Paule,
Sancte Andrea,
Sancte Iacobe,
Sancte Ioannes,
Sancte Thoma,
Sancte Iacobe,
Sancte Philippe,
Sancte Bartholomaee,
Sancte Matthaee,
Sancte Simon,
Sancte Thaddaee,
Sancte Line,
Sancte Clete,
Sancte Clemens,
Sancte Sixte,
Sancte Corneli,
Sancte Cypriane,
Sancte Laurenti,
Sancte Chrysogone,
Sancti Ioannes et Paule,
Sancti Cosma et Damiane,
Omnes sancti Apostoli et Evangelistae,
Omnes sancti Discipuli Domini,
Omnes sancti Innocentes,
Sancte Stephane,
Sancte Matthia,
Sancte Barnaba,
Sancte Ignati,
Sancte Alexander,
Sancte Marccelline,
Sancte Petre,
Sancta Felicitas,
Sancta Perpetua,
Sancta Agatha,
Sancta Lucia,
Sancta Agnes,
Sancta Caecilia,
Sancta Anastasia,
Omnes sancti Martyres,
Sancte Silvester,
Sancte Gregori,
Sancte Ambrosi,
Sancte Augustine,
Sancte Hieronyme,
Sancte Martine,
Sancte Nicolae,
Omnes sancti Pontifices et Confessores,
Omnes sancti Doctores,
Sancte Antoni,
Sancte Benedicte,
Sancte Bernarde,
Sancte Dominice,
Sancte Francisce,
Omnes sancti Sacerdotes et Levitae,
Omnes sancti Monachi et Eremitae,
Sancta Maria Magdalena,
Sancta Agatha,
Sancta Lucia,
Sancta Agnes,
Sancta Caecilia,
Sancta Catharina,
Sancta Anastasia,
Omnes sanctae Virgines et Viduae,
Omnes Sancti et Sanctae Dei,
Responsum: libera nos, Domine
Ab omni malo,
Ab omni peccato,
Ab ira tua,
A subitanea et improvisa morte,
Ab insidiis diaboli,
Ab ira, et odio, et omni mala voluntate,
A spiritu fornicationis,
A fulgure et tempestate,
A flagello terraemotus,
A peste, fame et bello,
A morte perpetua,
Responsum: te rogamus, audi nos
Per mysterium sanctae incarnationis tuae,
Per adventum tuum,
Per nativitatem tuam,
Per baptismum et sanctum ieiunium tuum,
Per crucem et passionem tuam,
Per mortem et sepulturam tuam,
Per sanctam resurrectionem tuam,
Per admirabilem ascensionem tuam,
Per adventum Spiritus Sancti Paracliti,
In die iudicii,
Ut nobis parcas,
Ut nobis indulgeas,
Ut ad veram paenitentiam nos perducere digneris,
Ut Ecclesiam tuam sanctam regere et conservare digneris,
Ut Apostolicum Praesulum et omnes ecclesiasticos ordines in sancta religione conservare digneris,
Ut inimicos sanctae Ecclesiae humiliare digneris,
Ut regibus et principibus christianis pacem et veram concordiam donare digneris,
Ut cuncto populo christiano pacem et unitatem largiri digneris,
Ut omnes errantes ad unitatem Ecclesiae revocare digneris,
Ut nosmetipsos in tuo sancto servitio confortare et conservare digneris,
Ut mentes nostras ad caelestia desideria erigas,
Ut omnibus benefactoribus nostris sempiterna bona retribuas,
Ut animas nostras, fratrum, propinquorum et benefactorum nostrorum ab aeterna damnatione eripias,
Ut fructus terrae dare et conservare digneris,
Ut omnibus fidelibus defunctis requiem aeternam donare digneris,
Ut nos exaudire digneris,
Fili Dei,
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
parce nobis, Domine.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
exaudi nos, Domine.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
miserere nobis.
Christe, audi nos. Christe, exaudi nos.
Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison.
Christe, eleison. Christe, eleison.
Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison.
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.
Response: pray for us
Holy Mary,
Holy Mother of God,
Holy Virgin of virgins,
Saint Michael,
Saint Gabriel,
Saint Raphael,
All ye holy Angels and Archangels,
All ye holy orders of blessed Spirits,
Saint John the Baptist,
Saint Joseph,
All ye holy Patriarchs and Prophets,
Saint Peter,
Saint Paul,
Saint Andrew,
Saint James,
Saint John,
Saint Thomas,
Saint James,
Saint Philip,
Saint Bartholomew,
Saint Matthew,
Saint Simon,
Saint Thaddeus,
Saint Linus,
Saint Cletus,
Saint Clement,
Saint Sixtus,
Saint Cornelius,
Saint Cyprian,
Saint Lawrence,
Saint Chrysogonus,
Saint John and Paul,
Saint Cosmas and Damian,
All ye holy Apostles and Evangelists,
All ye holy Disciples of the Lord,
All ye holy Innocents,
Saint Stephen,
Saint Matthias,
Saint Barnabas,
Saint Ignatius,
Saint Alexander,
Saint Marcellinus,
Saint Peter,
Saint Felicitas,
Saint Perpetua,
Saint Agatha,
Saint Lucy,
Saint Agnes,
Saint Cecilia,
Saint Anastasia,
All ye holy Martyrs,
Saint Sylvester,
Saint Gregory,
Saint Ambrose,
Saint Augustine,
Saint Jerome,
Saint Martin,
Saint Nicholas,
All ye holy Bishops and Confessors,
All ye holy Doctors,
Saint Anthony,
Saint Benedict,
Saint Bernard,
Saint Dominic,
Saint Francis,
All ye holy Priests and Levites,
All ye holy Monks and Hermits,
Saint Mary Magdalen,
Saint Agatha,
Saint Lucy,
Saint Agnes,
Saint Cecilia,
Saint Catherine,
Saint Anastasia,
All ye holy Virgins and Widows,
All ye Saints of God,
Response: deliver us, O Lord
From all evil,
From all sin,
From Thy wrath,
From sudden and unprovided death,
From the snares of the devil,
From anger, hatred, and all ill-will,
From the spirit of fornication,
From lightning and tempest,
From the scourge of earthquake,
From plague, famine, and war,
From everlasting death,
Response: we beseech Thee, hear us
By the mystery of Thy holy Incarnation,
By Thy Coming,
By Thy Nativity,
By Thy Baptism and holy fasting,
By Thy Cross and Passion,
By Thy Death and Burial,
By Thy holy Resurrection,
By Thine admirable Ascension,
By the coming of the Holy Ghost the Paraclete,
In the day of judgment,
That Thou wouldst spare us,
That Thou wouldst pardon us,
That Thou wouldst bring us to true penance,
That Thou wouldst govern and preserve Thy holy Church,
That Thou wouldst preserve our Apostolic Prelate and all orders of the Church in holy religion,
That Thou wouldst humble the enemies of holy Church,
That Thou wouldst give peace and true concord to Christian kings and princes,
That Thou wouldst grant peace and unity to all Christian people,
That Thou wouldst restore to the unity of the Church all who have strayed from the truth,
That Thou wouldst confirm and preserve us in Thy holy service,
That Thou wouldst lift up our minds to heavenly desires,
That Thou wouldst render eternal blessings to all our benefactors,
That Thou wouldst deliver our souls, and the souls of our brethren, relations, and benefactors, from eternal damnation,
That Thou wouldst give and preserve the fruits of the earth,
That Thou wouldst grant eternal rest to all the faithful departed,
That Thou wouldst graciously hear us,
Son of God,
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.