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Litany of St.
Vincent de Paul
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.
V.The just shall spring as the lily.
R. And flourish for ever before the
Lord. Alleluia.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for
us.
Holy Mary, Comforter of the Afflicted, pray for us.
Saint Vincent de Paul, pray for us.
St. Vincent, who at the tenderest age didst display a wisdom most
mature, pray for us.
St. Vincent, who from thy childhood wast full of pity and compassion, pray for us.
St. Vincent, who, like David, from a simple shepherd becamest a ruler
and pastor of the people of God, pray
for us.
St. Vincent, who in thy captivity by Turkish pirates didst preserve
perfect freedom, pray for us.
St. Vincent the just man, who didst live by faith, pray for us.
St. Vincent, always supported on the firm anchor of a Christian hope, pray for us.
St. Vincent, always inflamed with the fire of perfect charity, pray for us.
St. Vincent, truly simple, upright, and fearing God, pray for us.
St. Vincent, true disciple of Jesus Christ, always meek and humble of
heart, pray for us.
St. Vincent, perfectly mortified in heart and mind, pray for us.
St. Vincent, ever animated with the spirit of Our Lord, pray for us.
St. Vincent, generous maintainer of the glory of God, pray for us.
St. Vincent, ever inwardly burning, and ever outwardly transported,
with zeal for souls, pray for us.
St. Vincent, who in Christian poverty didst find the precious pearl,
and the rich treasure of the Gospel, pray
for us.
St. Vincent, like to the angels in thy purity, pray for us.
St. Vincent, faithful in obedience and victorious in word and deed, pray for us.
St. Vincent, who didst fly the slightest appearance of evil, pray for us.
St. Vincent, who, in all thine actions, didst aspire to practice of
perfect virtue, pray for us.
St. Vincent, who didst remain like a rock amidst the stormy sea of this
world, pray for us.
St. Vincent, invincible amidst the arrows of adversity, pray for us.
St. Vincent, as patient in suffering as thou vast indulgent in
forgiving, pray for us.
St. Vincent, ever docile and obedient son of the Holy See, pray for us.
St. Vincent, who hadst exceeding horror of the novel ways and subtle
words of heretics, pray for us.
St. Vincent, destined by a special Providence to announce the Gospel to
the poor, pray for us.
St. Vincent, father and model of ecclesiastics, pray for us.
St. Vincent, prudent founder of the Congregation of the Mission, pray for us.
St. Vincent, wise institutor of the Congregation of the Sisters of
Charity, pray for us.
St. Vincent, tender in compassionating, and prompt in relieving, the
necessities of the poor, pray for us.
St. Vincent, equally fervent in the practice of prayer and in ministry
of the word, pray for us.
St. Vincent, admirable in imitation of the life and virtues of Jesus, pray for us.
St. Vincent, who didst persevere to the end in eschewing evil and doing
good, pray for us.
St. Vincent, who, as in life so in death, most precious in the sight of
God, pray for us.
St. Vincent, glory of France and pride of Paris, pray for us.
St. Vincent, Patron of all charitable associations, pray for us.
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.
V. The Lord hath led the just man through right ways:
R. And showed unto him the Kingdom
of God.
Let us pray. O God, Who, by an effect of Thine infinite goodness, hast
renewed, in our days, in the apostolic character and humility of Thy
blessed servant Vincent, the spirit of Thy well-beloved Son to preach
the Gospel to the poor, relieve the afflicted, console the miserable,
and add new lustre to the Ecclesiastical Order: grant, we beseech Thee,
through his powerful intercession, that we also, delivered from the
great misery of sin, may labor to please Thee by the practice of the
same humility. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Who liveth with Thee and
the Holy Ghost ever one God, world without end.
R. Amen.
O God, Who, for the preaching of the Gospel to the poor and for
promoting the honor of the priesthood didst endue blessed Vincent with
the zeal of an apostle grant, we humbly pray Thee, that we who venerate
his holy life, may profit by the examples of virtue he has left us.
R. Amen.
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