#litany

[godslove]

[apostolum]

Litany of the Sacred Heart

Lord, have mercy

Lord, have mercy

Christ, have mercy

Christ, have mercy

Lord, have mercy

Lord, have mercy

God our Father in heaven

have mercy on us

God the Son, Redeemer of the world

have mercy on us

God the Holy Spirit

have mercy on us

Holy Trinity, one God

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, Son of the eternal Father

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mother

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, one with the eternal Word

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, infinite in majesty

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, holy temple of God

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, tabernacle of the Most High

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, house of God and gate of heaven

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, aflame with love for us

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, source of justice and love

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, full of goodness and love

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, well-spring of all virtue

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, worthy of all praise

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, king and center of all hearts

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, treasure-house of wisdom and knowledge

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, in whom there dwells the fullness of God

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, in whom the Father is well pleased

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, from whose fullness we have all received

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, desire of the eternal hills

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, patient and full of mercy

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, generous to all who turn to you

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, fountain of life and holiness

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, atonement for our sins

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, overwhelmed with insults

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, broken for our sins

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, obedient even to death

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, pierced by a lance

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, source of all consolation

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, our life and resurrection

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, our peace and reconciliation

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, victim of our sins

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, salvation of all who trust in you

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, hope of all who die in you

have mercy on us

Heart of Jesus, delight of all the saints

have mercy on us

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world

have mercy on us

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world

have mercy on us

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world

have mercy on us

Jesus, gentle and humble of heart.

Touch our hearts and make them like your own.

Let us pray.

Grant, we pray, almighty God,

that we, who glory in the Heart of your beloved Son

and recall the wonders of his love for us,

may be made worthy to receive

an overflowing measure of grace

from that fount of heavenly gifts.

Through Christ our Lord.

R/. Amen.

[theancientfootsteps]

A litany for Lent

My Lord, my Jesus, grant me constancy in my devotion, grant me the grace to descend into the grief of your sorrowful Passion, and to always fix on you my eyes, my heart, and my mind. As you go into the desert, Jesus, let me follow you. From the temptation to turn away from suffering, O Jesus, deliver me. From the temptation to dismiss my sorrow and the sorrow of others, O Jesus, deliver me. From the temptation to lose myself in distractions, O Jesus, deliver me. From the temptation to choose the pleasures of this world over your calling, O Jesus, deliver me. From the temptation to bury my feelings and cut myself off from your compassion, and others from mine, O Jesus, deliver me. From the temptation to reject and run from darkness, forgetting that it can never overcome your light, O Jesus, deliver me. To follow you into the wilderness, to bear hunger and thirst and never falter, Jesus, let me stay true. To withstand the temptations of the devil and of this world, Jesus, let me stay true. To wake with you in the garden and not turn from your agony, Jesus, let me stay true. To walk with you to Calvary and wipe the sweat and blood from your brow, Jesus, let me stay true. To fix my eyes upon injustice and never grow callous, Jesus, let me stay true. To let the sorrow of this world deeply pierce me and move me to compassion and right action, Jesus, let me stay true. To gladly carry my own cross, and help others carry theirs, Jesus, let me stay true. To strip away all my defenses and open my heart to your unfailing love,  that I may grow smaller and you greater in me,  that I no longer live but you live in me, that I may be a vessel to bring your light into this world,  Jesus, let me stay true.

[nachocheezos21]

ok last one and then i’m off to do my assignments (some headcanons + dumbass doodles)

[artemx746]

hrrrrgh living weapon trope

[francizca]

grace update is AWESOME. anyways heres dozer, redesign from my other dozer drawing (+ doodles of those other losers)

i shouldve added stars to dozer's robe but i forgot...

¡¡squishy dozer keychain and transparent image of dozer design under cut!!

paper squishy dozer keychain

dozer design transparent png

[apoemaday]

Litany

by Rebecca Lindenberg

O you gods, you long-limbed animals, you astride the sea and you unhammocked in the cyprus grove and you with your hair full of horses, please. My thoughts have turned from the savor of plums to the merits of pity — touch and interrupt me, chasten me with waking, humble me for wonder again. Seed god and husk god, god of the open palm, you know me, you know my mettle. See, my wrists are small. O you, with glass-colored wind at your call and you, whose voice is soft as a turned page, whose voice unrolls paper, whose voice returns air to its forms, send me a word for faith that also means his thrum, his coax and surge and her soft hollow, please — friend gods, lend me a word that means what I would ask him for so when he says: You give it all away, I can say: I am not sorry. I sing.

[theoffingmag]

— Rasha Abdulhadi, "a litany of refusals to become ghostly"

[bones-ivy-breath]

Litany by Billy Collins

[gemsofgreece]

A litany in Métsovo, Greece.

(image quality isn't the best and I couldn't find the name of the photographer but I love everything about this photo. Source)

[novablaster35]

DOZER, KOOKOO AND LITANY GRACE!

[rustbeltjessie]

Litany (for Kathy Acker)

by Diane di Prima

our lady of maggots

our lady of killing fields

our lady of Auschwitz

our lady of Philadelphia

our lady of Paterson

our lady of junkies

our lady of second-story men

our lady of car thieves

our lady of casinos

our lady of the Federal Reserve

our lady of the World Bank

our lady of the IMF

our lady of paupers

our lady of pimps

our lady of smugglers

our lady of yellowjackets

our lady of termites

our lady of bankruptcy

our lady of ergot

our lady of labyrinths

our lady of ayahuasca

our lady of prisons

our lady of wardens

our lady of hellholes

our lady of stillbirths

our lady of hydrocephalus 

our lady of child [ ] fever

our lady of seeds

our lady of cystic fibrosis

our lady of lupus

our gentle lady of pain

our lady of torturers

our lady, the Inquisition

our lady of the smug

our lady of the homeless

our homeless lady

our lady of broken pots

our lady, frayed hems

our blue lady of the Night of Time

our lady of the dirge

our lady of the flamenco

our lady, the duende

our lady of the dancehall

our lady of reggae

our lady of disco

our lady of hustlers

our lady of johns 

our lady of whores

our lady of filthy rivers

our lady of trash in the harbor

our lady of stilettos

our lady of the nuclear dump

our lady of bars

our lady of shackles

our lady of iron beds

our lady of death row

our most legal and judicious lady

lady of jurors and judges

lady of burning slums

lady of those who pray

lady of those who weep

lady of those who wait

lady of those who organize

lady of covert action

lady of assassination

lady of bloody churches

lady of crossroads

our lady of the lost

our lady of the the drowned

our lady of zombies

our lady of unburied corpses

our lady of whispers

our lady of mysterious deaths

our lady of the rainforest

our lady of the macaques

our lady of the great apes

our lady of orangs 

our lady of three-horned lizards

our lady of lost epics

our lady of trance

our lady of the possessed

our possessed lady

our lady the writer

our lady the written

our lady, oy-yah!

our lady [ ]

our lady of genetic engineering

our lady of biological warfare

our lady of the drug lords

our lady of child prostitutes

our lady of day traders

our lady of furriers

our lady of poachers

our lady of hot blood

our lady of pederasts

our smiling lady with fangs

our lady of the robots

our necrophiliac lady

our lady of black wine

our lady of the buffer zone

our lady of lost cities

our lady of buried towers

our lady of burned mosques

our lady of toxic swamps

our lady of the deadly oceans

our lady of East Timor

our lady of the wasted Taiga

our lady of Kosovo and Chechnya

our lady of Tashkent

our lady who never sleeps

our lady of Compton

our lady of Cleveland

our lady of Watts

our lady of Oakland

our lady of Harlem

our lady of Detroit

our lady of Chicago

our lady of Rio and Caracas and Lima

our lady of paralysis

our lady of starvation

our lady of slave camps

our silent lady of millions of nameless children

our lady of the pure waters of Sumeria

our lady of the deadly waters of Iraq

our Shiite lady

our lady of the P.L.O.

our Sunese lady

our lady of the Inuit

Inanna, our lady

lady of the ghost dance

lady who never sleeps

our lady of the mosh pit

our lady of heavy metal

our lady of Satanists

our lady of Christians

our lady of Pelican Bay

our lady of the noose

our lady of the guillotine

our lady of electric chairs

our lady of lethal injections

our lady of appeals

last hope, Executioner Lady

lady of final meals

lady of last cigarettes

our lady the sacredness of all death

oh, lady, bury your [ ]

our lady the gatekeeper

who stands in the ten directions

our lady of banners

our lady of slogans

lady with many eyes

lady with whips and lassos

lady of great charm

our lady of rags

our lady of lost ritual

our lady the coven

our lady of cults and sex

our lady of Fiji

our lady of Tahiti

our lady of Samoa

our lady the Orkneys

our lady of megaliths

our lady of hidden graves

our lady of barrows

our lady of winter light

our lady the threshold

our lady the hinge

our lady the funeral march that circles the globe

lady of rough trade

lady of transvestite truck drivers

our butch lady, drinking bourbon in Spokane

our lady, hitchhiking from Billings to Bozeman in a blizzard

our lady of Belize

our lady of the Mardi Gras

our lady of crepe de chine

hairdresser lady

our lady of artifice

our Gibson Girl lady

[ ] lady

our lady of the Charleston

our lady of the Twist

our lady of Jamaican grass

our lady of skag

our lady of mushrooms

our lady of black mold

our lady of soma

lysergic acid lady

our lady of slim sharp crystals

our lady of mescaline

our crystal lady

lady of crystal meth

our lady of the ecstatic rush

our lady of instant death

our lady of hair-trigger taste

our lady of the burst blood vessel

our lady the whirlwind in the brain

our lady of rat soup

our lady of dog stew

our lady of fried locusts crusted with salt

our lady of the feast

our lady the feast

our lady of the secret ways of the red ant

our lady of the secret gnosis of the gopher

our lady of arsenic

our lady of strychnine

our lady the death moth

our lady of the death grin rigor mortis

our lady of mass graves

our lady Sekhmet, who [ ] the night

our lady [ ], who is the open door

our lady of sirens

our lady of ambulances

our lady of geiger counters

our lady of plutonium

our lady of uranium tailings, whose death never leaves us

our lady the black widow

our lady the brown recluse

our lady Fatima

our lady who was boss of Mohammed

and later, his wife

lady of lost Iraqi children

lady of broken cuneiform tables

lady of prayers crushed to powder

lady of ancient tomb

oh lady of largest heart

our lady of black [ ]

our lady of lost tribes

reggae lady

disco lady

goth lady of purple hair and silver crosses

our lady the [ ]

our lady the [ ]

our lady the [ ]

our lady of the brotherhood of the free spirit

our lady who blazes in gold in the barren thorn tree

Hell’s Angels lady

gunslinger lady

bull rider lady

lady of large buttocks

lady of loud voice

our lady the Beguine

our lady of Andorra

our lady the [ ]

our lady the friable earth

our lady the foliated whiteness

our lady the breached garden

our lady the broken wall

our lady of battlements

our lady in armor

our lady the red stone, like clear dark menstrual blood

our lady the red tree in the crucible

our lady who hurled the rock from the walls of Toulouse

our lady who sank the treasure in a stream

our lady of [ ]

our lady of [ ]

our lady of Venice and Damascus

our lady of the hidden cup

our lady on the [ ]

our lady Billie

our lady Bessie

our lady Janis, Etta, Coco

our lady of oratorios

our lady of secret syllables

our lady of ahhhhhhh

I recently discovered the existence of a poem by Diane di Prima, titled “Litany (for Kathy Acker).” Apparently, it (or part of it? a version of it?) was performed by Diane di Prima’s partner at the scattering of Kathy Acker’s ashes, as detailed in Chris Kraus’s After Kathy Acker. When I learned of it, I freaked out, because Diane di Prima and Kathy Acker are two of my biggest inspirations/people whom I considered part of my literary lineage; also, I invoke the language of litany in a lot of my own poetry. I tried to track the poem down, but it doesn’t seem that any version of it has been printed anywhere, at least not anywhere accessible to me. What I did find was this, a 2019 performance of (a version of? part of?) the poem—and I decided to transcribe it. Unfortunately there were a number of words that were unintelligible to me; the sound quality in the video is not great, and one of the performers’ voices, in particular, was difficult for me to parse. So I did the best I could. Any words I could not make out have been replaced by [ ].

[sacredheart-stigmata]

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. God the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us. God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us. God the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us. Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.

You knew your hour had come. You knew your betrayer. You knew your enemies. You knew that the straw vote would not be in your favor. But you loved unto the end. Thank you for loving us, even unto death. Teach us to love like you love. Teach us to love each other, to love even our enemies, like you loved us. You took on the form of a servant, washing the feet of those whom you discipled. You defined humility and servanthood. You are he who was surely sent from God. Thank you for serving for us. Teach us to be servants without fail; to make humility our constant companion and to seek no glory for ourselves. Remind us when we forget. On that solemn evening, you surrounded yourself with friends and enemies, persons of faith and persons of ill-will. Help us to be able to always emulate you when we are surrounded by our friends and especially when we are surrounded by our enemies. You have established a “new commandment;” help us to live it out in every moment, in every aspect of our lives, in our families, in our churches, in our communities, and throughout the world. On this Holy Day, we gather to remember again the miracle that you performed in our lives. You have brought us into the marvelous light. At great cost to you, you have given us new life and life eternal. Amen.

A litany for Maundy Thursday by Nolan Williams, Jr., posted on The African American Lectionary

[nachocheezos21]

finally i can share off my own trio designs (kookoo was inspired by @fatherof500 ^_^)

[juleyabra]

on driving the car.

[whitecat2049]

rendered litany sketch🙏🙏