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1 This Litany was written by Pius VII. in his captivity, who granted a plenary indulgence to all who recite it with a contrite heart on Fridays.

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Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata Lamb of God, who takest away

mundi,

Exaudi nos, Jesu.

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata
mundi,

Miserere nobis, Jesu.
Respice super nos, libera nos, salva
nos ab omnibus angustiis in vir-
tute Jesu Christi. Amen.
Scribe, Domina, vulnera tua in
corde meo, ut in eis legam dolo-
rem et amorem: dolorem, ad
sustinendum per te omnem do-
lorem amorem, ad contemnen-
dum pro te omnem amorem.
Credo. Salve regina.

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. Look down upon us, deliver us

from all trouble in the power of Jesus Christ. Amen. Imprint, O Lady, thy wounds upon my heart, that I may read therein sorrow and love: sorrow, to endure every sorrow for thee; love, to despise every love for thee.

Three Ave Marias, in honour of the most holy heart of Mary.

The Golden Litany.

Lord have mercy on us.
Christ have mercy on us; and
grant us strength of soul,
inward and outward, that
we may serve thee to the
pleasure of thy will.

O Lord God, Father of
heaven, by thy heavenly
virtue,

O Son of God, Redeemer of the world,

O Holy Ghost, one God,

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with the Father and the
Son,

O Lord God, by thine in-
create and undivided Tri-
nity,

By thy godly being,
By thy godly nature,
By thine infinite beauty,
By thyself, and all good-
ness that thou beholdest
in thyself,

By the creation of heaven

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and earth, and all things that are in them, By thy goodness, which thou hadst in the creation of man to thine image and likeness, By that great love, wherewith thou didst predestinate to repair fallen

man,

By that ineffable love, whereby thou chosest Mary, most pure virgin, to be thy mother, By that most holy name, Mary, which descended and flowed from the high throne of the glorious Trinity,

By the Immaculate Conception of thy blessed Virgin Mother,

By her most holy Nativity, By her virginity and great meekness,

By that meek affection and love which drew thee from the bosom of the Father into the womb of the Virgin,

By the humility of thy high majesty, which disdained not to descend into the womb of the Virgin Mary, For the frailty of man, which thou loathedst not to take willingly for our sins, For thy holy Nativity, wherein thou didst vouchsafe to be born of a woman,

For that unspeakable delight and gladness, which thy blessed Mother had in thy Nativity, By that cold crib thou layest in, wrapped in

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poor clothes and fed with maiden's milk, By the great joy of the shepherds, who worshipped thee lying in the crib, For that painful Circumcision and shedding of thy precious blood, and for the virtue of thy Holy Name Jesus, and all thy blessed names,

For the oblation and the the three prayers of kings, For that blessed oblation, wherein thou wert offered to thy Father in the temple,

For thy flight into Egypt, and all the pains thou sufferedst there with thy blessed Mother,

For thy coming again from Egypt unto Nazareth, and thy meek obedience wherewith thou didst willingly subject thyself to thy parents,

For thy meek and lowly conversation during three and thirty years earth,

on

For thy meek obedience and great patience, For thy most holy meditations, words, and works of mercy,

For thy holy Baptism, and the glorious appearing of the Holy Trinity, For thy holy fasting, contemplation, genuflexions, and the tempting of the devil in the desert, For thy thirst, hunger, cold, and heat, which thou sufferedst in this vale of misery,

For thy heaviness, labour,

and weariness, For the detraction and evil words, wherewith thy enemies reviled thee, For thy watching and prayers,

For thy wholesome doc

trine and benefits, and thy mighty resistance, whereby thou gavest no place to thine enemies, For the wonderful signs and miracles thou wroughtest,

For thy meek and holy conversation,

For thy holy tears, and

meek enthronisation in Jerusalem on the day of palms,

For that cursed council, wherein the malicious Jews conspired thy death, By that fervent and charitable desire that thou hadst to redeem us, By that great lowliness, which thou shewedst in washing the feet of thy disciples, and of Judas, who betrayed thee, For thy most noble and worthy institution of the sacrament of thy most precious Body and Blood, For that profound love, whereby thou sufferedst St. John the Evangelist to rest upon thy breast at supper,

For peace which thou gav

est to thy disciples, For thy holy words and

sermons,

For the inward and great heaviness which thou hadst, when thou prayedst to thy Father in the

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garden beside the Mount of Olivet,

By the virtue of thy holy prayer, that thou prayedst there three times, For thy fearful dread of thy death,

For that Agony wherein thou offeredst thyself willingly to death, obeying thy Almighty Father, and for thy Bloody Sweat,

By thy great meekness, wherewith thou didst Vouchsafe to be comforted by an angel, so comfort me in every time; and

By thy mighty and victorious courage, wherewith thou wentest to meet

them that sought thee to the death,

For thy great goodness, in that thou refusedst not the kiss of Judas, thy betrayer; and the ear of Malchus, that Peter smote off, thou didst restore and heal, For those holy bonds, that thou wert bound with, and led as a prisoner, and the opprobrious words that thou sufferedst all that night,

For the buffet thou en

duredst in the presence of the high priest Annas, and other shame done to thee, For that love and charity

that thou hadst, when thou wert brought bound before the high priest Caiphas,

By the false witnesses brought against thee,

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and thy unrighteous condemnation,

By the spitting on thee, and the scourging of thee,

By the buffets and sore strokes given to thee, By the binding and blindfolding of thy holy eyes, shames and reproaches, that thou sufferedst all that night,

For that merciful look wherewith thou beheldest Peter, and for all that labour and torment, secret and unknown, which thou sufferedst all that night, By thy presentation before Pilate, and the accusations that the Jews made against thee,

For the contempt and mocking that thou sufferedst of Herod, and the white garment that he sent thee in again to Pilate,

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For all the shames, labours, upbraidings, and proofs, which thou sufferedst going from one judge to another, For thy great patience and stillness,

For the shameful stripping of thy clothes, and the binding of thy most holy body to a pillar, For thy scourgings and cruel beatings, For thy innumerable wounds, and the plenteous shedding of thy blood,

For all thy pain, sorrow, cold, and trembling, For thy purple garments,

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and thy crown of thorns violently pressed upon thy head,

For the grievous pain that thou sufferedst in thy head, crowned with thorns, when it was smitten with the reed, By the scornful_worshipping of the Jews, and their salutation, when they said, Hail, King of the Jews,

By the spitting on thy godly

face, and cruel beatings, For that heaviness of heart, which thou hadst when Pilate brought thee before the multitude of the people, wearing the

crown of thorns and the purple vesture, and said to them, Behold the man, For that fearful sentence of death and shameful leading to the Mount of Calvary,

For thy great love shewed to us, when thou bearedst thy heavy cross upon thy shoulders, to the place where thou sufferedst thy most painful passion; and the labour, anguish, slanders, and beatings that thou sufferedst by the way, For all thy bloody steps, that thou madest going to thy death,

By the great weariness that thou hadst in thy shoulders, bearing the cross, until thou fellest down,

By the great compassion of thy heart, that thou hadst when, bearing the cross, thou mettest thy

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