Confirmation Litany of the Saints
  • donr
    Posts: 971
    We will be doing the Litany of the Saints (English) for Entrance of the Confimandi this year.

    My question is, Do I do the full Litany that we do at Easter Vigil. It doesn't seem right to add the Christ, Have Mercy intro, or the other prayer after the Saints pray for us.

    What are your thoughts, do I just ask the saints to pray for us, or the whole thing?
    What parts do you sing or leave out?

    thanks
  • ScottKChicago
    Posts: 349
    I think that as far as possible, the Litany of the Saints should be done as a whole and not excerpted. It's a prayer form with its own integrity, and not a musical accompaniment to a liturgical action. I hasten to add that I don't think you're thinking of it as just a musical accompaniment (and that's why you're asking)...but that's what it might seem like if it's simply excerpted.
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  • EtienneDebaecker
    Posts: 34
    We dont sing the litany for such a ceremony. I dont think it is part of the official ceremonial. Therefore, you use it as an hymn, and you may sing only part of it. That is what I would do.
    We usually sing "Veni creator" and different french cantiques (Im french !).
  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,782
    Do I do the full Litany that we do at Easter Vigil


    At least in the EF the full Litany of the Saints is not sung at the Easter Vigil, it is abbreviated and in the 62 split in half. The Full Litany of the Saints was used for the Rogations...
  • ServiamScores
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    I wouldn’t cut the LHM/CHM beginning. This is the traditional way to start nearly all litanies. It is just part and parcel for this type of prayer. I’d do the whole thing, save the baptism bit.
  • eft94530eft94530
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    Saints Of God We Stand Before You
    by
    Mark Friedman
    Janet Vogt

    https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/51363/saints-of-god
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Singing for the intercession of the saints while ignoring the Lord for whom they lived and died seems ….. incongruous.
  • CharlesW
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    We sang the entire Litany of the Saints in English during the Vigil Baptismal Liturgy as we were supposed to.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Donr,

    Was the purpose of this procession-litany to invoke the canonized saints on behalf of the being-confirmed, or to add the names of the soon-to-be-confirmed to the rolls of the already canonized?
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