Ok since I started this thread I have only become more and more dissapointed at the lack of a mention or a public event to mark this year of Grace in honouor of St Paul.
So I did something about it!
From tomorrow onwards the public Rosary, prayed before the 10am Mass each morning will be followed by the Litany in honour of St Paul for the rest of the year!
I would urge those of you who do not have any marked events planned to try and accomodate the Litany either before or after the public recitation of your Parish Rosary. Litany follows:
Litany of St. Paul the Apostle
Antiphon
Thou hast proved me and known me;
Thou hast known my sitting down and my rising up.
V. The great Saint Paul, vessel of election,
is indeed worthy to be glorified,
R.
For he also deserved to possess the twelfth throne.
Lord, have mercy.
Lord have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Christ have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
Lord have mercy.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us.
Queen conceived without Original Sin,
pray for us.
Saint Paul, etc.
Apostle of the Gentiles, Vessel of election,
St. Paul, who wast rapt to the third heaven,
St. Paul, who heard things not given to man to utter,
St. Paul, who knew nothing but Christ and Him crucified,
St. Paul, whose love for Christ was stronger than death,
St. Paul, who wished to be dissolved and to be with Christ,
St. Paul, whose zeal knew no bounds,
St. Paul, who made thyself all to all, to gain all to Christ,
St. Paul, who called thyself prisoner of Christ for us,
St. Paul, who wast jealous of us with the jealousy of God,
St. Paul, who gloried only in the Cross of Christ,
St. Paul, who bore in thy body the mortification of Christ,
St. Paul, who exclaimed: “With Christ I am nailed to the cross!”
St. Paul, that we may awake and sin no more,
That we may not receive the grace of God in vain,
That we may walk in newness of life,
That we may work out our salvation with fear and trembling,
That we may put on the armor of God,
That we may stand against the deceits of the wicked one,
That we may stand fast to the last,
That we may press forward to the mark,
That we may win the crown,
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.
Let Us Pray.
O God, Who hast taught the whole world by the preaching of blessed Paul the Apostle, grant that we who celebrate his memory may, by following his example, be drawn unto Thee, Through Our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, Who with Thee liveth and reigneth in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
R.** Amen**.
