Litany of St. Angela Merici

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Lord, have mercy on us,
Christ, have mercy on us.
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 Spirit,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God,
Have mercy on us.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, and faithful guardian of our mother Saint Angela,
Pray for us.
Saint Angela Merici,
Pray for us.
St. Angela, favored with the choicest gifts of God from thine infancy, etc.
St. Angela, who didst give thyself to the practice of all the virtues from thy tenderest years,
St. Angela, who didst always preserve a spotless purity,
St. Angela, who by thy love for holy purity, didst merit to receive thy name,
St. Angela, who from childhood found thy delight in solitude,
St. Angela, who led an angelic life in the house of thy parents,
St. Angela, who didst daily bear on thy body the mortification of Jesus,
St. Angela, whose gift it was to reconcile the bitterest enemies,
St. Angela, who at thirteen became a tertiary of St. Francis and ever remained faithful,
St. Angela, gifted with the graces of prayer and contemplation,
St. Angela, who visited the Holy Land, and there followed the bloody footprints of Jesus,
St. Angela, who triumphed over the illusions of the devil,
St. Angela, who wast not afflicted at the loss of thy sight in visiting the holy places,
St. Angela, whose sight was miraculously restored in the Island of Candia,
St. Angela, whom the love of God had wounded and whom this same love cured,
St. Angela, model of perfect self-denial and true humility,
St. Angela, who, like Jacob, wast permitted to see the mysterious ladder,
St. Angela, chosen by God to be the mother of many holy virgins,
St. Angela, foundress of the illustrious Order of the Ursulines,
St. Angela, to whom God promised that this Order should always subsist,
St. Angela, who, filled with joy, didst give up thy soul in the embrace of the Lord,
St. Angela, whose body remained incorruptible after death,
St. Angela, patroness of Christian mothers,
St. Angela, protectress of young girls,
St. Angela, our mother and advocate,

V. Pray for  us, O glorious mother Saint Angela,
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.