LITANY OF ST. ANGELA
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,
R: Pray for us.
Saint Angela Merici,
St. Angela,
favoured with the choicest gifts of God from thy infancy,
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 become 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 was 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, was 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:
Hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God,
Who takest 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.
