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Litany of Our Lady of Lourdes




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Litany of Our Lady of Lourdes


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,
Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God,
Have mercy on us.

Exalted model of all mothers, pray for us.
Mother who didst suffer so much,
pray for us.
Mother poor and without shelter, pray for us.
Mother who didst bear along forgotten roads the fruit of thy womb, pray for us.
Who didst find no other shelter for thy Son and thy God than a wild cave, and no other cradle than a manger, pray for us.
Who didst declare: "I am the Immaculate Conception, pray for us.
Who didst appear to an humble peasant girl in order to teach us humility, pray for us.
Who wast clad in a white robe to remind us of purity, pray for us.
Who didst wear a girdle of blue to remind us of Heaven, pray for us.
Who didst tread on a rose bush to remind us of the sufferings we must endure in order to merit Heaven, pray for us.
Who didst carry the Rosary to induce us to pray, pray for us.
Who hadst thy hands joined and thy eyes raised to Heaven to draw us to penance, pray for us.
Who art the Star of Hope, pray for us.
Who dost pray to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for us, pray for us.
Who dost give strength to the clergy, pray for us.
Who dost heal the sick, pray for us.
Who art the health of the weak, pray for us.
Refuge of sinners, pray for us.
Comforter of the afflicted, pray for us.

Our Lady of Lourdes, conceived without sin:
Pray for us who have recourse to thee.

Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world: Spare its, 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. Pray for us, Our Lady of Lourdes, Holy Mother of God:
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray. O God, Who by the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin didst prepare a worthy habitation for Thy Son: we humbly beseech Thee, that we who celebrate the feast of the Apparition of the same holy Virgin, may obtain health both of soul and body. Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.




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