Hereford Breviary: the Litany (Hereford Use, printed at Rouen 1505)

Invocations

The Litany.

Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Christ, hear us.

God the Father of heaven: Have mercy upon us.

God the Son, Redeemer of the world: Have mercy upon us.

God the Holy Ghost: Have mercy upon us.

Holy Trinity, one God: Have mercy upon us.

Holy Mary: Pray for us.

Holy Mother of God: Pray for us.

Holy Virgin of virgins: Pray for us.

Saint Michael: Pray for us.

Saint Gabriel: Pray for us.

Saint Raphael: Pray for us.

All ye holy Angels and Archangels of God: Pray for us.

All ye holy orders of blessed spirits: Pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist: Pray for us.

All ye holy Patriarchs and Prophets: Pray for us.

The Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors and Virgins

Saint Peter: Pray for us.

Saint Paul: Pray for us.

Saint Andrew: Pray for us.

Saint James: Pray for us.

Saint John: Pray for us.

Saint Thomas: Pray for us.

Saint James: Pray for us.

Saint Philip: Pray for us.

Saint Bartholomew: Pray for us.

Saint Matthew: Pray for us.

Saint Simon: Pray for us.

Saint Thaddeus: Pray for us.

Saint Matthias: Pray for us.

Saint Barnabas: Pray for us.

Saint Mark: Pray for us.

Saint Luke: Pray for us.

All ye holy Apostles and Evangelists: Pray for us.

All ye holy disciples of the Lord: Pray for us.

All ye holy Innocents: Pray for us.

Saint Ethelbert: Pray for us.

Saint Stephen: Pray for us.

Saint Linus: Pray for us.

Saint Cletus: Pray for us.

Saint Clement: Pray for us.

Saint Sixtus: Pray for us.

Saint Cornelius: Pray for us.

Saint Cyprian: Pray for us.

Saint Laurence: Pray for us.

Saint Vincent: Pray for us.

Saint Denis, with thy companions: Pray for us.

Saint Maurice, with thy companions: Pray for us.

Saint Thomas: Pray for us.

Saint Fabian: Pray for us.

Saint Sebastian: Pray for us.

Saint Gervase: Pray for us.

Saint Protase: Pray for us.

Saint George: Pray for us.

Saint Alban: Pray for us.

Saint Edmund: Pray for us.

Saint Edward: Pray for us.

All ye holy Martyrs: Pray for us.

Saint Thomas: Pray for us.

Saint Silvester: Pray for us.

Saint Leo: Pray for us.

Saint Damasus: Pray for us.

Saint Gregory: Pray for us.

Saint Ambrose: Pray for us.

Saint Jerome: Pray for us.

Saint Augustine: Pray for us.

Saint Martin: Pray for us.

Saint Benedict: Pray for us.

Saint Nicholas: Pray for us.

Saint Edmund: Pray for us.

Saint Romanus: Pray for us.

Saint Ouen: Pray for us.

Saint Dunstan: Pray for us.

Saint Cuthbert: Pray for us.

Saint Guthlac: Pray for us.

All ye holy Confessors: Pray for us.

Saint Anne: Pray for us.

Saint Mary Magdalene: Pray for us.

Saint Mary of Egypt: Pray for us.

Saint Felicity: Pray for us.

Saint Perpetua: Pray for us.

Saint Petronilla: Pray for us.

Saint Agatha: Pray for us.

Saint Lucy: Pray for us.

Saint Agnes: Pray for us.

Saint Cecilia: Pray for us.

Saint Katherine: Pray for us.

Saint Margaret: Pray for us.

Saint Etheldreda: Pray for us.

Saint Milburga: Pray for us.

Saint Faith: Pray for us.

Saint Frideswide: Pray for us.

Saint Osyth: Pray for us.

All ye holy Virgins: Pray for us.

All ye Saints: Pray for us.

The Deprecations and Obsecrations

Be favourable: Spare us, O Lord.

From all evil: Deliver us, O Lord.

From the snares of the devil: Deliver us.

From everlasting damnation: Deliver us.

From all uncleanness of mind and body: Deliver us.

By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation: Deliver us.

By thy holy Nativity: Deliver us.

By thy Passion and Cross: Deliver us.

By thy glorious Resurrection: Deliver us.

By thy wonderful Ascension: Deliver us.

By the grace of the Holy Ghost the Comforter: Deliver us.

In the hour of death: Succour us, O Lord.

In the day of judgement: Deliver us.

The Suffrages

Sinners: We beseech thee, hear us.

That thou wouldest give us peace: We beseech thee, hear us.

That thy mercy and lovingkindness may ever keep us: We beseech thee, hear us.

That thou wouldest vouchsafe to rule and defend thy Church: We beseech thee, hear us.

That thou wouldest vouchsafe to preserve the lord Apostolic and all degrees of the Church in holy religion: We beseech thee, hear us.

That thou wouldest vouchsafe to preserve our Bishop and our prelates, and us the congregations committed to them, in thy holy service: We beseech thee, hear us.

That thou wouldest vouchsafe to give to our kings and princes peace and true concord and victory: We beseech thee, hear us.

That thou wouldest vouchsafe to preserve all Christian people redeemed with thy precious blood: We beseech thee, hear us.

That thou wouldest repay all our benefactors with everlasting good things: We beseech thee, hear us.

That thou wouldest vouchsafe to give and preserve the fruits of the earth: We beseech thee, hear us.

That thou wouldest vouchsafe to visit and strengthen this place and all who dwell in it: We beseech thee, hear us.

That thou wouldest order the journey of thy servants in the prosperity of thy salvation: We beseech thee, hear us.

That thou wouldest give eternal rest to all the faithful departed: We beseech thee, hear us.

That thou wouldest vouchsafe to hear us: We beseech thee, hear us.

Son of God, Lamb of God, Kyrie

Son of God: We beseech thee, hear us.

Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world: Spare us, O Lord.

Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world: Hear us, O Lord.

Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world: Have mercy upon us.

Christ, hear us.

Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.

The Lord's Prayer and the Preces

Our Father. And lead us not. But deliver us.

Let thy mercy come also unto us, O Lord: Even thy salvation, according unto thy word.

Be unto us, O Lord, a tower of strength: From the face of the enemy.

Remember thy congregation: Which thou hast possessed from the beginning.

O Lord, save the kings: And hear us in the day when we call upon thee.

O Lord, save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: And govern them, and lift them up for ever.

Peace be within thy strength: And plenteousness within thy towers.

Let us pray for the faithful departed.

Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord: and let light perpetual shine upon them.

O Lord, hear my prayer: And let my cry come unto thee.

The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. Let us pray.

The Collects

O God, whose property is ever to have mercy and to spare, receive our petition: that those whom the chain of sins doth bind, the compassion of thy lovingkindness may absolve. Through Christ our Lord.

Then the following prayers, under one Let us pray and one Through the same, according to the use of the church of Hereford. Let us pray.

Almighty and everlasting God, who alone workest great marvels: send down upon thy servants and upon all the congregations committed to them the Spirit of thy saving grace; and that they may please thee in truth, pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing.

Stretch forth, O Lord, upon thy faithful servants the right hand of heavenly help: that they may seek thee with their whole heart, and obtain what they worthily ask.

O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed: give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and that, the fear of our enemies being taken away, our times may be quiet under thy protection.

Crush, we beseech thee, O Lord, the pride of our enemies, and lay it low by the might of thy right hand.

Graciously receive, O Lord, we beseech thee, the prayers of thy Church: that all adversities and errors being destroyed, she may serve thee in untroubled freedom.

Be present, O Lord, at our supplications, and order the way and the doings of thy servants in the prosperity of thy salvation: that among all the changes of this way and of this life they may ever be protected by thy help.

Almighty and everlasting God, the eternal salvation of them that believe, hear us for thy servants and handmaids for whom we implore the help of thy mercy: that their health being restored to them, they may give thanks to thee in thy Church.

Let the prayer of thy suppliants, we beseech thee, O Lord, profit the souls of thy servants and handmaids: that thou mayest both free them from all sins and make them partakers of thy redemption.

O God, who art the wonderful splendour of thy saints and the unspeakable raiser of the fallen: grant that we thy servants may everywhere be guarded by the protection of the holy Mother of God, Mary ever Virgin, and of all thy saints; and to those joined to us by friendship and kindred or by profession, and to all Christian people, drive away all the snares of the deceitful enemy and grant them entrance to return to the heavenly country; and grant to the souls of all the faithful departed, born again in the water of holy baptism, to enjoy everlasting rest. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.