The paradise of the Christian soul/Chap. III. Litany of the Life and Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
CHAPTER III.
LITANY OF THE LIFE AND PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
| Lord, have mercy on us. | |
| Christ, have mercy on us. | |
| Lord, have mercy 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. | |
| Jesus the desired of all nations, | Agg ii 8 |
| Jesus sent into the world by the Father, | Gal. iv. 4. |
| Jesus conceived by the Holy Ghost, | Luke i. 35. |
Jesus the Word made flesh, Have mercy on us.
Jesus who tookst upon thee the form of a servant,
Jesus who didst visit and gladden John in his mother’s womb,
Jesus born of the Virgin Mary,
Jesus wrapped in swaddling clothes,
Jesus laid in a manger,
Jesus suckled at a Virgin’s breast,
Jesus shown to Shepherds in the manger,
Jesus, of thy own will, obedient to the law of Circumcision,
Jesus adored by the Magi,
Jesus presented in the temple,
Jesus taken into the arms of just Simeon,
Jesus carried down into Egypt,
Jesus whom Herod sought to destroy,
Jesus brought up at Nazareth,
Jesus found in the temple among the doctors,
Jesus subject to thy parents,
Jesus baptised by John,
Jesus tempted in the desert,
Jesus who conversedst with men,
Jesus who chosest for thy disciples men ignorant and poor,
Jesus who mercifully aidedst all the sick,
Jesus transfigured on the Mount in the presence of the Fathers,
Jesus who didst weep for compassion over Jerusalem,
Jesus who enteredst into Jerusalem as her meek King,
Jesus, who in zeal for the house of God, didst cast out them that sold and bought therein,
Jesus sold for thirty pieces of silver,
Jesus who stoopedst to wash thy disciples’ feet,
Jesus who didst eat the Pasch with thy disciples,
Jesus who hast given us thy body to eat and thy Blood to drink,
Jesus prostrate in prayer,
Jesus, covered in thy agony with a Bloody Sweat,
Jesus strengthened by an Angel,
Jesus betrayed by Judas with a kiss,
Jesus cruelly bound by the servants,
Jesus forsaken by thy disciples,
Jesus brought before Annas and Caiaphas,
Jesus struck by a servant with a blow,
Jesus accused by false witnesses,
Jesus judged guilty of death,
Jesus spit upon in thy face,
Jesus blindfolded,
Jesus buffeted,
Jesus hated without cause,
Jesus, who gavest thy body to the strikers, and thy cheeks to them that plucked them,
Jesus thrice denied by Peter,
Jesus delivered bound to Pilate,
Jesus mocked and set at naught by Herod,
Jesus arrayed in a white robe,
Jesus rejected for Barabbas,
Jesus savagely beaten with scourges,
Jesus bruised for our sins,
Jesus accounted as a leper,
Jesus arrayed in a purple robe,
Jesus crowned with thorns,
Jesus given a reed for thy sceptre,
Jesus whom the Jews demanded to be crucified,
Jesus most unjustly condemned to death,
Jesus delivered over to the will of the Jews,
Jesus burdened with thy Cross,
Jesus led as a sheep to the slaughter,
Jesus given to drink wine mingled with myrrh and with gall,
Jesus nailed naked on the Cross,
Jesus who hast loved us, and hast washed us from our sins in thy own Blood,
Jesus who, having joy set before thee, enduredst the Cross, despising the shame, Jesus who hast delivered thyself for us, an Oblation and a Sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness,
Jesus reputed with the wicked,
Jesus crucified between two thieves,
Jesus distinguished by Pilate with a royal title on the Cross,
Jesus who prayedst to thy Father for thy enemies,
Jesus made the reproach of men,
Jesus blasphemed by passers-by,
Jesus derided by the Jews,
Jesus mocked on the Cross by the soldiers,
Jesus assailed with reproaches by the thief,
Jesus who promisedst Paradise to the penitent thief,
Jesus who commendedst John to thy Mother to be her son,
Jesus who testifiedst that thou wert forsaken of thy Father,
Jesus, when thirsty, given vinegar to 3 drink,
Jesus who on the Cross accomplishedst all things written concerning thee,
Jesus who, at the point of death, commendedst thy spirit into thy Father’s hands,
Jesus always heard by the Father for thy reverence,
Jesus who becamest obedient even to the death of the Cross,
Jesus pierced with the lance,
Jesus out of whose side ran Blood and Water,
Jesus who, thy own self, barest our sins in thy Body upon the Tree,
Jesus by whose stripes we are healed,
Jesus made a propitiation for us,
Jesus taken down from the Cross,
Jesus wrapped in a clean linen cloth,
Jesus laid in a new monument,
Jesus who, after death, descendedst into hell, Jesus who didst die for our sins, and rise again for our justification,
Jesus raised up into heaven, Have mercy on us.
Jesus seated at the right hand of the Father,
Jesus crowned with glory and honour,
Jesus King of kings and Lord of lords,
Jesus who hast prepared a place for us in thy Father’s house,
Jesus our Advocate with the Father,
Jesus who gavest the Holy Ghost the Paraclete to thy disciples,
Jesus who shalt judge the living and the dead,
Jesus who wilt send the reprobate into everlasting fire,
Jesus who wilt give to the Elect the Kingdom prepared for them,
Be favourable, O Jesus, and spare us.
From all evil, Deliver us, O Jesus.
From an evil, sudden, and unforeseen death,
From the snares of the devil,
From anger, hatred, and all ill-will,
From everlasting death,
By the Mystery of thy holy Incarnation,
By thy Advent,
By thy Nativity,
By thy Circumcision,
By the giving of thy most holy Name,
By thy Baptism and holy Fasting,
By thy Labours and Watchings,
By thy Agony and Bloody Sweat,
By thy Buffeting and Scourging,
By thy Crown of Thorns,
By thy Cross and Passion,
By thy Thirst, Tears, and Nakedness,
By thy Five most sacred Wounds,
By thy Death and Burial,
By thy holy Resurrection,
By thy admirable Ascension,
By the sending of the Holy Ghost the Paraclete,
In the Day of Judgment,
We sinners, Jesus, beseech thee, Hear us.
| That being dead to sins, we may live to justice, | i Pet. ii. 24. |
| Jesus, we beseech thee, Hear us. | |
| That we may not glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, Jesus, we beseech thee, Hear us. | Gal. vi. 14 |
| That for the love of thee the world may be crucified to us, and we to the world, | Ibid. |
| That we may always bear about in our body the mortification of the Cross, | 2 Cor. iv. 10. |
| That we may strive to crucify our flesh with the vices and concupiscences, | Gal. v. 24. |
| That because thou hast suffered in the flesh, we may also arm ourselves with the same thought, | 1 Pet. iv. 1. |
| That we may be able to take up our cross daily, and follow thee, | Matt. xvi. 24. |
| That we may count the things that are gain to us, loss for thy sake, | Phil. iii. 7. |
| That we may strive above all things to know thee, our crucified Jesus, | 1 Cor. ii. 2. |
| That thy Blood may cleanse us from dead works, to serve the living God, | Heb. ix. 14. |
| That as we ate bought with a great price, we may glorify God in our body, | 1 Cor. vi. 20. |
| That being dead to sin, and buried together with thee, we may walk with thee henceforth in newness of life, | Rom. vi. 4, 11. |
| That being once cleansed from dead works, we may take care not again to crucify thee, the Son of God, and make thee a mockery, | Heb. vi. 1-6. |
| That we may look on the example thou hast left us, and follow thy steps, | 1 Pet. ii. 21. |
| That as we are partakers of thy sufferings, so we may be also of thy consolation, | 2 Cor. i. 7. |
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, Spare us, O Jesus.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, Graciously hear us, O Jesus.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us, O Jesus. Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, 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,
God the Holy Ghost,
Holy Trinity, one God,
Heart of Jesus, substantially united to the Word of God,
Heart of Jesus, sanctuary of the Divinity,
Heart of Jesus, temple of the holy Trinity,
Heart of Jesus, depth of wisdom,
Heart of Jesus, ocean of goodness,
Heart of Jesus, throne of mercy,
Heart of Jesus, never-failing treasure,
Heart of Jesus, of whose fulness we all have received,
Heart of Jesus, our peace and reconciliation,
Heart of Jesus, pattern of all virtues,
Heart of Jesus, infinitely loving, and infinitely to be loved,
Heart of Jesus, fount of water springing up into life everlasting,
Heart of Jesus, in which the Father is w-ell pleased,
Heart of Jesus, the propitiation for our sins,
Heart of Jesus, filled with bitterness for our sake,
Heart of Jesus, sorrowful in the garden, even to death,
Heart of Jesus, filled with reproaches,
Heart of Jesus, wounded with love,
Heart of Jesus, pierced through with the lance,
Heart of Jesus, emptied of Blood upon the Cross,
Heart of Jesus, bruised for our sins,
Heart of Jesus, tom by ungrateful men even in the most holy Sacrament of love,
Heart of Jesus, refuge of sinners,
Heart of Jesus, strength of the weak,
Heart of Jesus, consolation of the afflicted,
Heart of Jesus, perseverance of the just,
Heart of Jesus, salvation of them that hope in thee.
Heart of Jesus, hope of them that die in thee,
Heart of Jesus, dear defence of thy worshippers,
Heart of Jesus, delight of all the Saints,
Heart of Jesus, our helper in troubles which have found us exceedingly, 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.
V. Jesus, meek and humble of heart.
R. Make my heart according to thy heart.
Prayer.
Grant, we beseech thee, almighty God, that we who glory in the most holy Heart of thy beloved Son, and call to mind the especial benefits of his love to us, may rejoice alike in their performance and in their fruit. Through the same our Lord.
Prayers
HAVING REFERENCE TO OUR LORD’S PASSION,
Corresponding with the Seven Canonical Hours.
AT MATINS.
Lord Jesus, by the love with which thou lovedst thy own to the end;[1] by the Bloody Sweat which thou pouredst forth in the garden; by the injuries and pains which thou enduredst when thou wast betrayed and sold by thy own disciple, bound and torn by the impious Jews; loose the chains of my sins, and bind this soul of mine with the most strong cords, that cannot be broken, of thy love, Who livest, &c.
AT PRIME.
Lord Jesus, who at the First hour of the day wast brought before Pilate— the heavenly Judge before an earthly judge— and wast condemned by the impious high priests of crimes falsely laid to thy charge; help us miserable sinners in the Judgment, that we may not be condemned with the wicked to eternal punishment, but may merit to be united to thy faithful in heaven. Who livest.
AT TIERCE.
Lord Jesus, who at the Third hour of the day wert scourged and crowned with thorns; grant to us, thy servants, that by afflicting our bodies with voluntary chastisement, we may merit to be reckoned worthy members of a thorn-crowned Head. Who livest.
AT SEXT.
Lord Jesus, who at the Sixth hour of the day didst hang on the wood of the Cross by thy Hands and Feet, dug through with nails, and with those same nails hast fastened to that gibbet the handwriting of our condemnation; grant that, my soul being freed from the slavery of sin, I may ever bear these, thy most sacred Wounds, as tokens of my deliverance, in the midst of my heart. Who livest.
AT NONE.
Lord Jesus, who at the Ninth hour of the day, when all things were accomplished, didst bow thy Head and yield up thy spirit to God the Father, and breathe the breath of life into mankind that was heretofore dead; grant to me, a sinner, that I, who owe my whole self to thee for having made me, may owe my whole self to thee again for having made me anew, and live now no more to myself, but to thee who hast died for me, for ever. Who livest.
AT VESPERS.
Lord Jesus, who at the hour of Evening didst will thyself to be taken down dead from the Cross, into the arms of thy most holy Mother; mercifully grant that I too, while I live, may never abandon my cross, which of thy goodness it has been thy will to bestow upon me; and that, when taken down from it at my death, I may merit to be presented before thee by the hands of thy most merciful Mother. Who livest.
AT COMPLINE.
Lord Jesus, who at the hour of Compline reposedst in the tomb, and wast bewailed by thy most sorrowful Mother, and by other women; make us, we beseech thee, with true tears, to bewail thy most holy Passion, and never to give place to the things by which thou wouldst be crucified again. Who livest.
- ↑ St. John. xiii. i.