Litany of the Saints/Litanie Sanctorum

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I just wanted to share this beautiful version of the Litany of the Saints with CAF.

Overwhelmed by the holiness and beauty I was experiencing, I was moved to tears.

Enjoy.

 
I’m really not sensitive at all, except with religious things.

I’ve been blessed by God with the gift of tears, both tears of repentance and tears of piety.

It is a beautiful thing to flow with tears before God.

Shedding tears, especially tears of repentance, is a common theme in Eastern Christian piety.

"When, energized by divine grace, you find yourself full of tears in prayer before God, lie on the ground stretched out in the form of a cross, beat the earth with your brow and ask for deliverance from this life as a release from corruption and a liberation from trials and temptations.

But ask that this may be granted, not as you wish, but as and when God wills.

For your part, you should long for your departure now, hoping that, if you come before God with, tears and in the depths of humility, you will stand firm and confident in the fire of your desire and your prayer; but you should also be ready for your death to be delayed for the time being, should God foresee something better for you.

Pursue your goal forcefully, dedicating your whole life to God, in all your actions, words and intentions seeking by all possible means not to fall away from Him."
  • St. Theognostos, On the Practice of the Virtues, Contemplation and the Priesthood from the Philokalia (Vol. 2)
 
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"When you shed floods of tears during prayer, do not exalt yourself for this, as though you were above many others. It is that your prayer has received help from above, so that, having zealously confessed your sins, you may incline the almighty to mercy by your tears. "

-153 Texts on Prayer", St Nilus of Mt Sinai, “Early Fathers From the Philokalia,” translated from the Russian text, “Dobrotolubiye,” by E. Kadloubovsky and G.E.H. Palmer, eighth edition, (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1981), pp. 127 - 135.

“Many times, weeping conquers God, if one can say that; and He is truly overcome. For gladly is the Merciful One constrained by tears – But tears of the spirit And not those caused by afflictions of the body. Indeed, we weep for the dead, and we cry out over blows, For the flesh is clay and is subject to never-ending flow of tears. Let us, then, lament from our hearts In the way in which the Ninevites in their contrition opened Heaven And were heeded by the Savior. Indeed, He received their repentance.”

-St Romanos the Melodist - V. II, “On Repentance”

“God is visiting you when tears come during prayer.”

-Elder Amphilochios Makris

"Greater than baptism itself is the fountain of tears after baptism, even though it is somewhat audacious to say so. For baptism is the washing away of evils that were in us before, but sins committed after baptism are washed away by tears. As baptism is received in infancy, we have all defiled it, but we cleanse it anew with tears. And if God in His love for mankind had not given us tears, those being saved would be few indeed and hard to find. "

-St. John Climacus, “The Ladder of Divine Ascent,” (Boston: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 1978), Step 7: On Joy-Making Mourning
 
This is a beautiful rendition, but I’m partial to the traditional litany because instead of lumping all three Archangels together for one “orate pro nobis”, in that version each Archangel gets his own individual “ora pro nobis”.
 
Thank you. I needed this at the right moment. My fever has returned. Listening to the Litany of Saints helped relieve it more. 😊💖
 
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