Litany of the Passion

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,Have mercy on us.

God, the Holy Ghost,Have mercy on us.

Holy Trinity, one God,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, prostrate in the Garden of Olives before thy Father, and charged with the sins of the whole world,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, overwhelmed with sadness, reduced to agony and submerged in a sea of sorrow,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, who from every part of thy body didst sweat blood abundantly,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, betrayed by a traitor-apostle and sold at a low price, like a slave,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, giving a loving kiss to the traitor Judas,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, dragged by a rope through the streets of Jerusalem, and overwhelmed with curses,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, unjustly accused and condemned,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, overwhelmed with insults, spat upon and buffeted,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, clothed in a robe of ignominy and treated as a madman in Herod's court,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, whose flesh was torn with scourges and whose blood flowed plentifully,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, crowned with sharp thorns,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, treated as a mock king,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, placed on a parallel with Barabbas who was preferred to thee,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, given over to thine enemies by Pilate,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, exhausted with sufferings and bending under the weight of the cross,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, fastened to the cross between two malefactors,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, man of sorrows,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, obedient unto death, even the death of the cross,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, filled with mercy towards those who offered thee gall and vinegar,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, praying for thy executioners, and pleading for them with thy Father,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, for our redemption sacrificing thine honor and life,Have mercy on us.

Jesus, expiring on the cross out of love for us,Have mercy on us.

Be merciful unto us and pardon us,

O Lord!

Be merciful unto us and hear us,

O Lord!

From all evil,O Lord, deliver us.

From all sin,O Lord, deliver us.

From a bad death,O Lord, deliver us.

From everlasting damnation,O Lord, deliver us.

By thine agony and bloody sweat,O Lord, deliver us.

By thy cruel scourging,O Lord, deliver us.

By thy crown of thorns,O Lord, deliver us.

By thy cross and sufferings,O Lord, deliver us.

By thy sacred thirst and dereliction,O Lord, deliver us.

By thy five wounds,O Lord, deliver us.

By thy death,O Lord, deliver us.

By thy resurrection,O Lord, deliver us.

At the day of judgment,O Lord, deliver us.

That by thy passion thou wouldst make known to us the enormity of sin, the cause of thy sufferings,We beseech thee to hear us.

That by the remembrance of thy sorrows and sufferings, we may be enabled patiently to bear trials, adversities and sickness,We beseech thee to hear us.

That in our afflictions, sadness and tribulations, we may look to thee for patience,We beseech thee to hear us.

That without murmuring, we may receive from thy hands humiliations, scorn, outrage and persecution,We beseech thee to hear us.

That following thy example, we may patiently bear with false accusations and unjust judgments,We beseech thee to hear us.

That thou wouldst vouchsafe to make us share in the fruits of thy cross,We beseech thee to hear us.

That by virtue of thy cross we may triumph over the devil, the world, and the flesh,We beseech thee to hear us.

That we may be purified from all sin in thy blood,We beseech thee to hear us.

That we may daily take up our cross and follow thee,We beseech thee to hear us.

That we may frequently and lovingly remember thy passion,We beseech thee to hear us.

That calling to mind that thou didst die for us, we may love thee with our whole heart, and live for thee alone,We beseech thee to hear us.

That at the hour of our death thou wilt vouchsafe to strengthen us by thy cross and death,We beseech thee to hear us.

That by thy cross, thou wilt vouchsafe to bring us to eternal glory,We beseech thee to hear us.

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,

Spare us, O 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, O Lord!

Let us pray

O Lord Jesus Christ! who to redeem the world, didst vouchsafe to be born amongst men, to be circumcised, to be rejected and persecuted by the Jews, to be betrayed by the traitor Judas with a kiss, and as a lamb, gentle and innocent, to be bound with cords and dragged in scorn before the tribunals of Annas, Caiphas, Pilate, and Herod; who didst suffer thyself to be accused by false witnesses, to be torn by the scourge and overwhelmed with opprobrium; to be spit upon, to be crowned with thorns, buffeted, struck with a reed, blindfolded, stripped of thy garments, to be nailed to the cross and raised on it between two thieves; to be given gall and vinegar to drink, and to be pierced with a lance: do thou, O Lord, by these thy most sacred pains which I, though unworthy, call to mind, and by thy holy cross and death, save me from the pains of hell and vouchsafe to bring me whither thou didst bring the good thief who was crucified with thee, who with the Father and the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest God forever and ever. Amen.