Making a Litany of Saints

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If you were to collect a group of saints, and wanted to pray as a group for their intercession, is there a right way or a suggested way to start or end that prayer?

I know there is an actual formal litany of saints, but if you only were praying with, say 10 of them, how would you begin or end?

My kids and I just do St. Whoever, pray for us, for however long they can think of saints, but this would be with adults. I had each member of my leadership team in our mother’s ministry choose a patron for the year and I thought we could close our leadership meetings with a litany.

 

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I wrote mine out a while ago and I generally say it at the end of another daily prayer, so mine goes:
Other Daily Prayer

Ending Sign of the Cross

Jesus, have mercy on the souls in purgatory and the souls on earth. (<—-I was taught as a child to say this after every ending sign of the cross)

Holy Mary, pray for us. (<—- often here I will use her title for a recent Marian feast day, like Our Lady of Mt Carmel, pray for us)

St Joseph, pray for us. (<—— often here I will use a title of St Joseph like St Joseph, Terror of Demons, pray for us)

Then I do all the “Saint so-and-so, Pray for us” starting with the saint(s) of the day and then going down the list of favorite saints I wrote down. At the end I will say “All the saints in Heaven, pray for us” and “All the holy angels, pray for us.”

After them I state that we pray for the canonization of the following, and then go down the list of beati, venerabili, Servants of God, and what I call “heroes” who are deceased holy people who don’t have a cause as of now or weren’t Catholic, asking each of them to pray for us. When I get to the last one I usually just end there.

You could also use the standard beginning and ending sections from the Church official litany of saints.