Litany, and other Catholic Prayers for a Happy Death

Litany, and other Catholic Prayers for a Happy Death – (favored by Pope Pius VII) from ‘With God’ by Fr. F.X. Lasance.

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.

God, the Holy Ghost. Holy Trinity, one God.

Holy Mary, pray for us.

All ye holy angels and archangels, Holy Abraham,

St. John the Baptist, St. Joseph,

All ye holy patriarchs and prophets,

St. Peter, St. Paul,

St. Andrew, St. John, St. Jude,

All ye holy apostles and evangelists, All ye holy disciples of Our Lord, All ye holy innocents,

St. Stephen, St. Lawrence,

All ye holy martyrs, St. Sylvester,

St. Gregory, St. Augustine, St. Basil,

St. Ambrose,

St. Francis de Sales, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Aloysius,

St. Stanislaus,

All ye holy bishops and confessors, St. Benedict,

St. Dominic,

St. Francis of Assisi, St. Ignatius,

St. Philip Neri,

St. Camillus de Lellis, St. John of God,

All ye holy monks, hermits, and founders of Religious Orders,

St. Mary Magdalene, St. Lucy,

St. Scholastica, St. Teresa,

St. Catharine, St. Clara, St. Ursula,

St. Angela Merici,

St. Jane Frances de Chantal, St. Barbara,

All ye holy virgins and widows, All ye saints of God, intercede for us.

Be merciful unto us. Spare us, 0 Lord. Be merciful unto us. Hear us, O Lord.

From Thine anger, O Lord, deliver us.

From an evil death, From the pains of hell, From all evil,

From the power of the devil, By Thy nativity,

By Thy cross and passion, By Thy death and burial,

By Thy glorious resurrection,

By the grace of the Holy Ghost the Comforter, In the Day of Judgment,

We sinners, beseech Thee, hear us.

That Thou wouldst spare us, We beseech Thee, hear us.

That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to bring us unto true repentance,

That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to grant eternal rest to all the faithful departed,

Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, spare us, 0 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.

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us,

V. We adore Thee, O Christ, and we bless Thee.

R. Because by Thy holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world.

Let us pray

Divine Jesus, incarnate Son of God, who for our salvation didst vouchsafe to be born in a stable, to pass thy life in poverty, trials, and misery, and to die amid the sufferings of the Cross, I entreat Thee in the hour of my death, say to thy divine Father: “Father, forgive him”; say to thy beloved Mother: “behold thy son”; say to my soul: “this dav thou shall be with Me in Paradise.” My God, my God, forsake me not in that hour. “I thirst”: truly, my God, my soul thirsts after Thee, who art the fountain of living waters. My life passes like a shadow; yet a little while and all will be consummated. Wherefore, O my adorable Saviour, from this moment, for all eternity, “into Thy hands I commend my spirit.” Lord Jesus, receive my soul. Amen.

O Jesus, Who during Thy prayer to the Father in the garden of Gethsemane wast so filled with sorrow and anguish that there came forth from Thee a bloody sweat; have mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, Who wast betrayed by the kiss of a traitor into the hands of the wicked, seized and bound like a thief, and forsaken by Thy disciples; have mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, Who, by the unjust council of the Jews was sentenced to death, led like a malefactor before Pilate, scorned and derided by impious Herod; have mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, Who wast stripped of Thy garments and most cruelly scourged at the pillar, have mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, Who wast crowned with thorns, buffeted, struck with a reed, blindfolded, clothed with a purple garment, in many ways derided, and overwhelmed with reproaches; have mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, Who wast less esteemed than the murderer Barabbas, rejected by the Jews, and unjustly condemned to the death of the cross; have mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, Who wast loaded with a cross, and led to the place of execution as a lamb to the slaughter; have mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, Who wast numbered among thieves, blasphemed, and derided, made to drink of gall and vinegar, and crucified in dreadful torment from the sixth xo the ninth hour; have mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, Who didst expire on the cross, Who wast pierced with a lance in presence of Thy holy Mother, and from Whose side poured forth blood and water; have mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, Who wast taken down from the cross and bathed in the tears of Thy most sorrowing Virgin Mother; have mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, Who wast covered with bruises, marked with the five wounds, embalmed with spices, and laid in the sepulcher; have mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

V. He hath truly borne our infirmities.

R. And He hath carried our sorrows.

Let us pray

O GOD who to redeem the world didst vouchsafe to be born amongst men, to be circumcised, rejected by the Jews, betrayed by the traitor Judas with a kiss, to be bound with cords, and as an innocent lamb to be led to the slaughter;

Who didst suffer Thyself to be shamelessly exposed to the gaze of Annas, Caiphas, Pilate, and Herod; to be accused by false witnesses, tormented by scourges and insults, crowned with thorns, smitten with blows, denied with spittings, to have Thy divine countenance covered, to be struck with a reed, to be stripped of Thy clothes, nailed to and raised high upon a Cross between two thieves, to be given gall and vinegar to drink, and then pierced with a lance; do Thou, O Lord, by these most sacred sufferings, whish I, unworthy as I am, yet dare to contemplate, by Thy holy cross and by Thy bitter death free me from the pains of hell, and vouchsafe to bring me to Paradise, whither Thou didst lead the thief who was crucified with Thee, my Jesus, who with the Father and the Holy Ghost livest and reignest God forever and ever. Amen.

Pater, Ave, and Gloria five times.