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The litany is made up of portions of earlier litanies dating to the seventeenth century. This included invocations composed by Jean Croiset S.J. in 1681, and ten by the Visitandine Anne-Madeleine Remuzat, plus others for a total of thirty-three, as in the years of Jesus' earthly life.
Litany; Litany of humility; Litany of Saint Joseph; Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus; Litany of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus; Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Litany of the Saints
The first "month" of the Sacred Heart was celebrated at the time of the French Revolution.In fact, French Jesuit Alexandre Lanfant, who would die as a martyr in the Massacres of September 1792, encouraged the distribution of a pamphlet calling for forty days of prayer and penance which ended with a solemn prayer of consecration to the Sacred Heart in June 1790.
Litany, in Christian worship and some forms of Jewish worship, is a form of prayer used in services and processions, and consisting of a number of petitions.The word comes through Latin litania from Ancient Greek λιτανεία (litaneía), which in turn comes from λιτή (litḗ), meaning "prayer, supplication".
Devotions to the Immaculate Heart of Mary date back to Bernard of Clairvaux. The 1830 reported vision of Catherine Labouré which introduced the Miraculous Medal depicting the thorn-crowned Heart of Jesus and the pierced Heart of Mary had a significant impact on the devotion. [45] (Many parishes hold a novena each Monday to Our Lady of the ...
Litanies à la Vierge noire (French pronunciation: [litani a la vjɛʁʒ nwɑʁ]; "Litany to the Black Virgin"), FP 82, is a piece of sacred music composed by Francis Poulenc in 1936 for a three-part choir of women (or children) and organ, setting a French litany recited at the pilgrimage site Rocamadour which the composer visited.
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart. (Pope Leo XIII, 1897) Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste spouse. (Pope Benedict XV, 1920) Blessed be her Glorious Assumption. (Pope Pius XII, 1952) Blessed be His Most Precious Blood. (Pope John XXIII, 1960) Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete. (Pope Paul VI, 1964)
Devotion to the Sacred Heart can be expressed in a number of practices, such as a Holy Hour, the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, participation in Mass on the First Fridays, etc. "One of the merits of the Haurietis aquas encyclical was precisely that of helping set all these elements in their biblical context and above all of highlighting ...