The Church's official recognition of sanctity implies that the persons are now in heavenly glory, that they may be publicly invoked and mentioned officially in the liturgy of the Church, most especially in the Litany of the Saints.

* Litany of the Saints

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.

Theodore also taught sacred music, introduced various texts, knowledge of Eastern saints, and may even have been responsible for the introduction of the Litany of the Saints, a major liturgical innovation, into the West.

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 ..."

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 ".

* A Litany of Saints

A response from his parishioners of " Ora pro nobis " after " Omnes sancti Angeli et Archangeli " in the Litany of the Saints would elicit a pause and the correction " No, Orate pro nobis.

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.

* The Litany of the Saints

" The Litany of the Saints was sung.

The choir sang the Litany of the Saints ; the same song was sung during the procession that transferred the body of Pope John Paul II from the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace to St. Peter's Basilica.

After the singing of the Litany of the Saints, the patriarchs, archbishops and metropolitans of the Eastern Catholic Churches approached the coffin of Pope John Paul II for their own rituals of commendation and farewell ( panikhida ).

" However, it is permissible to personalize the Litany of Saints for a funeral rite or other Mass for the dead, and this was famously done during the funeral of Pope John Paul II, the response was Ora pro eo, or " Pray for him.

# redirect Litany of the Saints

" The Pope and the cardinals then went in procession to Saint Peter's Square for the inauguration Mass, while the Litany of the Saints was chanted, asking their help for the new Pope.

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

# The Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany of the Saints

" They are also invoked in the Litany of the Saints, and in the older form of the Roman rite, in the Collect for Thursday in the Third Week of Lent, as the station church for this day is Santi Cosma e Damiano.

Litany Para Pedir Posada () is a song traditionally sung in The Posadas — Traditional Christmas celebrations in Spanish-speaking Latin American countries.

In the Latin language version of the Litany, the names of one or more saints are chanted by a cantor or choir, and the congregants reply with either, Ora pro nobis ( if one saint is addressed ) or Orate pro nobis the plural imperative of the verb, ( if more than one saint is addressed ).

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.

* Litany ( Litaniae ).

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.

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

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.

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.

The Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Marian litany originally approved in 1587 by Pope Sixtus V. It is also known as the Litany of Loreto, for its first-known place of origin, the Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto ( Italy ), where its usage was recorded as early as 1558.

During the troubled years of World War I, Pope Benedict XV added Our Lady of Peace to the Litany of Loreto, a sacred prayer in liturgy.

The business of making the changes was then entrusted to a small committee of bishops and the Privy Council and, apart from tidying up details, this committee introduced into Morning and Evening Prayer a prayer for the Royal Family ; added several thanksgivings to the Occasional Prayers at the end of the Litany ; altered the rubrics of Private Baptism limiting it to the minister of the parish, or some other lawful minister, but still allowing it in private houses ( the Puritans had wanted it only in the church ); and added to the Catechism the section on the sacraments.

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.

One of the forces that drove the spread of the rosary during the 19th century among Roman Catholics was the influence of the Rosary Pope, a title given to Pope Leo XIII ( 1878 – 1903 ) because he issued a record twelve encyclicals and five Apostolic Letters on the rosary, instituted the Catholic custom of daily rosary prayer during the month of October and, in 1883, added the invocation Queen of the most Holy Rosary to the Litany of Loreto.

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.

The Litany of humility is another well-known prayer.

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 ).