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Litanies
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,
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 takes
away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us.
V. Pray for us, O glorious mother
Saint Angela,
R. That we may be made worthy of the
promises of Christ.
Let Us Pray.
O God, Who by means of our blessed mother Saint Angela didst
cause a new Order of holy virgins to flourish in Thy Church, grant,
through her intercession, that we may imitate her angelic virtues, and
forsaking all earthly things, may be found worthy of eternal bliss,
through Jesus Christ Our Lord.
R. Amen.
St. Angela Merici, Foundress of the Ursulines was
born around the year 1470 in Lombardy, Italy. At age 13 she became a
Franciscan tertiary and lived a life of great austerity. She and 27
companions formed the Ursulines, the Church's first teaching order of
women, to teach young girls. St. Angela died in 1540, at age 70.
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