Scriptural Litany of God

(Abridged from the “Paradisus Animæ.”)

Lord have mercy.
Lord have mercy.
Christ have mercy.
Christ have mercy.
Lord have mercy,
Lord have mercy.

God, the Father of heaven,
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
God the Holy Ghost,
Holy Trinity, one God,
God, of whom, by whom, and in whom are all things, ¹
God, in whom we live, and move and are ²

Have mercy, &c.

Who alone hast immortality, and dwellest in light inaccessible, ³
Whose majesty filleth the whole earth, ⁴
Whom heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain, ⁵
Who hast made all things for thyself, ⁶
Who workest all things according to the counsel of thy will, ⁷
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh, ⁸
Who openest thine hand, and fillest with blessing every living creature, ⁹
Who hast power to cast body and soul into hell, ¹⁰
Who dost great things and unsearchable, and wonderful things without number, ¹¹
Whose eyes are brighter than the sun, beholding all the ways of men, ¹²
Who catchest the wise in their craftiness, and disappointest the counsel of the wicked, ¹³
Who searchest the heart, and triest the reins, ¹⁴
Whose judgments are incomprehensible, and whose ways are unsearchable, ¹⁵
Who art the Father of orphans, and the Judge of widows, ¹⁶
Merciful and patient, of much compassion, and true, ¹⁷
Our protector, and our reward exceedingly great, ¹⁸
King of kings, and Lord of lords, ¹⁹
King of ages, immortal and invisible, ²⁰

Have mercy on us.

Be merciful, Spare us, O Lord.
Be merciful, Graciously hear us, O Lord.

From all sin,
From pride and vain-glory,
From avarice and worldly solicitude,
From anger, resentment, and envy,
From calumny, detraction, and rash judgment,
From gluttony, drunkenness, and impurity,
From spiritual sloth, and the forgetfulness of our salvation,
From the abuse of thy grace, and a reprobate sense,
From the worm that never dieth, and the fire that shall never be extinguished,
From being deprived of the sight and enjoyment of thee,
Through thy almighty power and infinite wisdom,
Through thy incomprehensible majesty and eternal glory,
Through thy ineffable bounty and superabundant mercy,
Through all the humiliations and sufferings of thine only-begotten Son,

O Lord, deliver us.

We sinners, Beseech thee, hear us.
That we may love thee, the Lord our God, with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind,
That we may adore thee alone, and serve thee in holiness and righteousness all the days of our lives,
That we may never take thy holy name in vain,
That we may sanctify the feasts and holy days of the Church,
That we may give due honour and obedience to our parents and lawful superiors,
That we may not injure our neighbour in body, soul, or peace of mind,
That we may crucify the flesh, with its vices and concupiscences, and be ever clean of heart,
That we may not do to others what we would not have others do to us,
That we may not covet our neighbour's goods,
That thou wouldst make all grace abound in us,
That we may present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to thee,
That thou wouldst bring us to the kingdom which thou hast prepared for us from the foundation of the world,

We beseech thee, hear us.

Glory be to the Father, &c.
As it was in the beginning, &c.

Let us pray.

O adorable Lord, in Three distinct and equal Persons One God, who requirest the homage of our reason by the belief of mysteries which are above our understanding, and that of our will by the observance of precepts which are mortifying to our natural inclinations; give us thy grace to perform this two-fold duty; and grant that we may never oppose our uncertain reasoning to thy infallible truth, nor deliberately transgress thy most high and holy commands. Thus continuing until death in entire subjection to thee, may we come at last to the clear and perfect enjoyment of thee. Who livest and reignest world without end. Amen.

1. Rom. xi. 36.
2. Acts xvii. 28.
3. 1 Tim. vi. 16.
4. Ps. lxxi. 19.
5. 2 Kin. viii. 27.
6. Prov. xvi. 4.
7. Eph. i. 11.
8. Job xii. 10.
9. Ps. cxliv. 16.
10. Matt. x. 28.
11. Job v. 9.
12. Eccl. xxiii. 28.
13. Job v. 13.
14. Jer. xvii. 10.
15. Rom. xi. 33.
16. Ps. lxvii. 6.
17. Ps. lxxxv. 15.
18. Gen. xv. 1.
19. 1 Tim. vi. 13.
20. 1 Tim. i. 17.