During World War I, Benedict placed the world under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary and added the invocation Mary Queen of Peace to the Litany of Loreto.

* The Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( also known as the Litany of Loreto )

* Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary

It originates with the Song of Solomon ( 7, 4 ) (" Your neck is like an ivory tower "; in the Hebrew Masoretic text, it is found in 7: 5 ) and was included in the epithets for Mary in the sixteenth century Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary (" tower of ivory ", in Latin Turris eburnea ), though the title and image was in use long before that, since the 12th century Marian revival at least.

On the strength of this impulse given to the Litany of Loreto, certain ascetical writers began to publish a great number of litanies in honour of the Saviour, the B. Virgin, and the saints, often ill-advised and containing expressions theologically incorrect, so that Pope Clement VIII had promulgated ( 6 Sept., 1601 ) a severe decree of the Holy Office, which, while upholding the litanies contained in the liturgical books as well as the Litany of Loreto, prohibited the publication of new litanies, or use of those already published in public worship, without the approbation of the Congregation of Rites.

The Litany, in traditional English, echoes the Great Litany, with some additional petitions to the Virgin Mary and the Saints.

He added the title ' Queen of Peace ' to her Litany, and gave his support to an understanding of Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces ( by approving a Mass and office under this title for the dioceses of Belgium ) and affirmed that " together with Christ she redeemed the human race " by her immolation of Christ as his sorrowful mother ( in his apostolic letter Inter sodalicia ).

The Litany of Loreto includes several supplications to Mary as Queen.

Abraham is even seen as father of the faith ( Gen15, 5 Rom 4 Hebr 11, 8 ) In the Litany of Loreto, God is not only the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but also the God of Mary.

In the Byzantine Rite Liturgy, the Nicene Creed is recited on all occasions, following the Litany of Supplication.

Pentecost is also one of the occasions specially appointed for the Lutheran Litany to be sung.

After the Litany of Thanksgiving that follows Communion, the deacon will come into the sanctuary and kneel, placing his forehead on the Holy Table ( Altar ) and the priest will bless him to consume the Gifts, which is done at the Prothesis ( Table of Oblation ).

Much of what survives is light music but some more significant work survives including his Sacrament Litany in D ( 1762 ) and three fortepiano sonatas, all published in his lifetime.

This prayer, also called the Possibly Proper Death Litany, is uttered by one of the main characters, Madrak, to shrive a man about to commit suicide for money ( given to his family ).

According to Canon C. 24, " Every priest having a cure of souls shall provide that, in the absence of reasonable hindrance, Morning and Evening Prayer daily and on appointed days the Litany shall be said in the church, or one of the churches, of which he is the minister.

On the other hand, the Litany of Our Lady, though usually printed after the " O Salutaris " and very generally sung at Benediction, is nowhere of obligation.

The Khorda Avesta ( Book of Common Prayer ) also refer to Mithra in the Litany to the Sun, " Homage to Mithra of wide cattle pastures ,"( Khwarshed Niyayesh 5 ), " Whose word is true, who is of the assembly, Who has a thousand ears, the well-shaped one, Who has ten thousand eyes, the exalted one, Who has wide knowledge, the helpful one, Who sleeps not, the ever wakeful.

In the Church of England, the " Exhortation and Litany " ( 1544 ) is chronologically the first officially authorized liturgy in English ( Wohlers ).

The Litany of the Saints is sung, concluded by three prayers, " We invoke you ...," " God who the people ...," and " On this day ..." The consecratory prayer then said, " Almighty, everlasting God, Creator and Governor of the world ,..." While the antiphon " Favorer of the Just ..." or " Zadok the Priest ...," is sung while the king is anointed on shoulders, after which is said the prayer, " God the Son of God ..."

This portion of the Litany is much favored by the Garou elders, as well as such tribes as the Silver Fangs and Shadow Lords ; it is grudgingly acquiesced to by the rest.

This is perhaps the most inviolate portion of the Litany.

After this, the Litany of the Saints is said, followed by an antiphon and Psalm 126 ( in the Hebrew numbering ), which appropriately begins with the verse, " Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it ".

It is recited in the Western Mass directly after the homily on all Sundays and Solemnities ( Tridentine Feasts of the First Class ), and in the Eastern Liturgy following the Litany of Supplication on all occasions.

After this, there is a Litany and the veneration of Icons and Relics.

These include, inter alia, settings of the four Marian antiphons from the Roman Rite, four Marian hymns set a3, a version of the Litany, the gem-like setting of the Eucharistic hymn Ave verum Corpus, and the Turbarum voces from the St John Passion, as well as a series of miscellaneous items.

In form, the Litany of Loreto is composed on a fixed plan common to several Marian litanies already in existence during the second half of the 15th century, which in turn are connected with a notable series of Marian litanies that began to appear in the twelfth century and became numerous in the 13th and 14th.

Note the inverted moon and various imagery in reference to the Marian titles of Litany of Loreto.

The first, for publishing The Late John Wilkes's Catechism of a Ministerial Member ( 1817 ), was before Mr Justice Abbot ( afterwards Lord Tenterden ); the second, for parodying the litany and libelling the Prince Regent in The Political Litany ( 1817 ), and the third, for publishing the Sinecurist's Creed ( 1817 ), a parody on the Athanasian Creed, were before Lord Ellenborough.

Despite the fact that, from the seventeenth century onwards, the Litany of Loreto has been the subject of endless panegyrics and ascetical writings, there is a great lack of documentary evidence concerning its origin, the growth and development of the litany into the forms under which we know it, and as it was for the first time definitely approved by the Catholic Church in the year 1587.

Duschene makes this refer to a Bidding Litany to follow the Homily, but judging from the analogy of the Stowe Mass, which places a litany between the Epistle and Gospel, and of the Mozarabic, which on Sundays in Lent has a very similar litany between the Prophetical Lesson and the Epistle, said by the priest who " prosternat se ad pedem altaris ", it might be possible to understand " audita Apostoli praedicatione " to mean " after the Epistle ".

The working title of this album was Litany, hinting that the song " Litany " recorded during the Lifeblood sessions was originally intended for inclusion.

Their major objections ( exceptions ) were: firstly, that it was improper for the lay congregation to take any vocal part in prayer ( as in the Litany or Lord's Prayer ), other than to say " Amen "; secondly, that no set prayer should exclude the option of an extempore alternative from the Minister ; thirdly, that the Minister should have the option to omit part of the set liturgy at his discretion ; fourthly, that short Collects should be replaced by longer prayers and exhortations ; and fifthly, that all surviving " Catholic " ceremonial should be removed.

At the Vigil of Pentecost, the traditional blessing of baptismal water, accompanied by the Litany of the Saints and six Old Testament readings, was omitted completely.

He does so by self-immolation, after receiving the Possibly Proper Death Litany ( also called the Agnostic's Prayer ).

* A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde ( 1995 ) Documentary by Michelle Parkeson.

Prayers to Corellon, which are always in Elvish, begin " Hei-Corellon shar-shelevu ," which means, " Corellon, by your grace grant ..." Before battle, worshippers of Corellon recite a prayer called the Litany of Arrows.

* " Impi ", song written by South African music superstar Johnny Clegg and performed by his band Juluka on the album African Litany

At Rome the Litany of Loreto was introduced into the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore by Cardinal Francesco Toledo in 1597 ; and Paul V, in 1613, ordered it to be sung in that church, morning and evening, on Saturdays and on vigils and feasts of the Madonna.

The Litany, used by Episcopalians elsewhere is Scotland at this period, was probably used in Glasgow.

Much of the historic Litany was retained by the Lutheran Church.

In 1529, he, after modifying the traditional Litany of the Saints ( mostly by removing the invocation of saints and prayers for the pope ), began using the Litany at Wittenberg in Latin and German.

Naomi Long Madgett writes: " His interest in Russia, apparent in his translations of poems by Aleksander Pushkin (' I Loved You Once ,' After the Killing ) and Konstantin Simonov (' My Native Land ' and ' Wait for Me ' in A Litany of Friends ), was heightened by a visit to the Soviet Union in 1966.

This prayer has been used by the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis in his 1974 choral work Litany to Thunder ( text rendered into the Võro dialect of contemporary Southern Estonian and developed by the writer Ain Kaalep ).