Particular feasts will naturally suggest their corresponding devotions,-e.g. the several festivals of our Lord and his Blessed Mother, the Holy Angels, S: Joseph, &c. ; and no further guidance will be needed than that which is afforded by any Catholic Directory. But, for the readier fulfilment of the plan proposed, the following Table is prefixed, which gives the Litanies proper to each season in their order,
Table of Litantes throughout the Year.
Advent . . . Litany of the Incarnate Word, and ditto of Penance.
Christmas . . . Litany of the Infant Jesus.
Epiphany . . . Litany of the Infant Jesus, and the Life of ditto.
Septuagesima . . . Litany of the Life of Jesus; and on Fridays, that of the Passion.
Lent . . . Litany of Penance; and on Wednesdays Lent and Fridays, that of the Passion.
Passion and Holy Weeks . . . Litany of the Passion.
Maunday Thursday . . . the Blessed Sacrament.
Good Friday . . . the Passion and of the Holy Cross.
Easter . . . the Resurrection.
Ascension Day to to Whit-Sunday . . . Jesus glorified.
Whitsuntide . . . the Holy Ghost.
Trinity Sunday, and Sundays after Pentecost . . . the Most Holy Trinity.
Corpus Christi. . . . the Blessed Sacrament.
Devotion will contrive numerous combinations, by which the peculiar character of each day or season may be duly observed, and the several aspects of the Divine Mysteries receive their proper measure of attention and contemplation.
The Litany of the Saints, as also the Litany for England, way very suitably be used on the festivals of those eminent Saints whose names are especially commemorated in them.
Litanies, again, form appropriate devotions for particular Novenas,[1] and for consecrating the several months of the year
- ↑ A Novena is a devotion of nine days, in honour of some mystery of our redemption, to obtain a particular request, or in honour of the B. v. Mary, or some of the Saints, to beg their intercession in obtaining it. It may be performed with any forms of prayer.
