Litany of Loreto

In some cases, the Litany of Loreto may be recited at the end.

The structure of the litany is similar to the Litany of Loreto.

The Litany of Loreto includes several supplications to Mary as Queen.

Listen, Mother of God: Thoughts on the Litany of Loreto.

Stairway to Heaven is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the litany of Loreto.

The cave has recently been given the more Christian name of "Lorette" after a Madonna of Litany of Loreto chapel nearby.

The Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary (also known as the Litany of Loreto)

The Litany of Loreto had taken root at Loreto, and was being spread throughout the world, when it ran the grave risk of being lost forever.

The most common Litany used nowadays, the Litany of Loreto, uses the invocation Mater admirabilis, which means "Mother admirable".

In the Catholic tradition as reflected in the Litany of Loreto, angels are messengers of God; angels also praise God.

The windows in the choir, depicting the Holy Trinity and the Litany of Loreto, were made by Jacques Le Chevallier in the 1970s.

Reyna Justiciá (Queen Justice) - a personification of the "Mirror of Justice", one of Mary's titles in the Litany of Loreto.

Once he moved to Saint-Louis, Charpentier virtually ceased writing oratorios and instead primarily wrote musical settings of psalms and other liturgical texts such as the Litanies of Loreto.

Another form ("Aliae litaniae B.M.V.") is identical to the litany of Loreto approved by Pope Clement VIII in 1601 and now used throughout the entire Church.

Torsellini (1597) and the Roman Breviary (May 24, Appendix) say that Pope Pius V inserted the invocation in the litany of Loreto after the battle of Lepanto.

During the troubled years of World War I, Pope Benedict XV added Our Lady of Peace to the Litany of Loreto, a sacred prayer in liturgy.

The invocation to Our Lady, Auxilium Christianorum, is found in the Litany of Loreto, and is related to the victory of the Christian fleet at the Battle of Lepanto.

During the First Vatican Council, some 108 council fathers requested adding the words "Immaculate Virgin" to the "Hail Mary" prayer and to add the Immaculata to the Litany of Loreto.

Today, 10 A.M., excerpts from Mozart's Symphony in D, "Litany of Loreto," with orchestra and vocalists: Wanda Brister, Susan Chassagnoux, Paul Johnson, Enoch Sherman.

During World War I, Benedict placed the world under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary and added the invocation Mary Queen of Peace to the Litany of Loreto.

According to the Schoenstatt, on April 6, 1604, Father Jakob Rem, SJ, desired to know which of the invocations from the litany of Loreto would please the Virgin Mary the most.

Noteworthy also are three invocations, "Advocata christianorum", "Refugium desperatorum", "Auxilium peccatorum", which passed by an easy change into the "Refugium peccatorum" and "Auxilium christianorum" of the Litany of Loreto.

Now there are many similar examples in which the litany consists of praises alone without the repetition of the "Sancta Maria", and in which arrangement and form come nearer and nearer to the Litany of Loreto.

In a word, if we omit the petitions of this older form, and its reiteration of the "Sancta Maria", we have a litany which in the choice and arrangement of praises comes very close to the Litany of Loreto.

Over the centuries, devotions to Our Lady of the Good Counsel grew among saints and Popes, to the extent that a reference to it was added to the Litany of Loreto and the devotion spread throughout the world, as far as Brazil.