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 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 ).

The Litany of the Saints ( Latin: Litaniae Sanctorum ) is a sacred prayer of the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church, some Anglican Churches, and Western Rite Orthodox communities.

" 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.

The Exhortation and Litany, the earliest English-language service book of the Church of England, was the first overt manifestation of his changing views.

Published in 1544, it borrowed greatly from Martin Luther's Litany and Myles Coverdale's New Testament and was the only service that might be considered to be " Protestant " to be finished within the lifetime of King Henry VIII.

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.

In Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson ’ s documentary A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, Lorde says, " Let me tell you first about what it was like being a Black woman poet in the ‘ 60s, from jump.

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.

This portion of the Litany was first sung in the post-Impergium days ; the Stargazers are believed to be responsible for its insertion.

In November and December 1999, the band recorded the album Litany, which was set for release in March 2000, and recorded a music video for the song " Cold Demons ," which appeared on a special-edition digipack.

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.

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.

The Litany of Loreto had taken root at Loreto, and was being spread throughout the world, when it ran the grave risk of being lost forever.

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.

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

The regimental slow march was " Litany of Lorretto ".

The frequent repetition of the Kyrie was probably the original form of the Litany, and was in use in Asia and in Rome at a very early date.

In England the Litany of Rogation Days ( Gang-Days ) was known in the earliest periods.

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

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

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.

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