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Litany for the Preborn - Prayers for the Sanctity of Life

A Prayer for Pre-born Who Die Today

Almighty God, look on your servants, lying in great weakness, and comfort them with the promise of life everlasting, given in the resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

God the Father: Have mercy on your servants.

God the Son: Have mercy on your servants.

God the Holy Spirit: Have mercy on your servants.

Holy Trinity, one God: Have mercy on your servants.

From all evil, from all sin, from all tribulation: Good Lord, deliver them.

By your holy Incarnation, by your Cross and Passion, by your precious Death and Burial: Good Lord, deliver them.

By your glorious Resurrection and Ascension, and by the Coming of the Holy Spirit: Good Lord, deliver them.

We sinners beseech you to hear us, Lord Christ: That it may please you to deliver the soul of your servants from the power of evil, and from eternal death: We beseech you to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please you mercifully to pardon all their sins: We beseech you to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please you to grant them a place of refreshment and everlasting blessedness: We beseech you to hear us, good Lord.

That it may please you to give them joy and gladness in your kingdom, with your saints in light: We beseech you to hear us, good Lord.

Jesus, Lamb of God: Have mercy on them.

Jesus, Bearer of our sins: Have mercy on them.

Jesus, Redeemer of the world: Give them your peace.

Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.

[The Our Father may be included here.]

Deliver your pre-born servants, O Sovereign Lord Christ, from all evil, and set them free from every bond; that they may rest with all your saints in the eternal habitations; where with the Father and the Holy Spirit you live and reign, + one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Depart, O Christian soul, out of this world; in the Name of God the Father Almighty who created you; in the Name of Jesus Christ who redeemed you; in the Name of the Holy Spirit who sanctifies you. May your rest + be this day in peace, and your dwelling place in the Paradise of God. Amen.

Into your hands, O merciful Savior, we commend your pre-born servants. Acknowledge, we humbly beseech you, sheep of your own fold, lambs of your own flock, sinners of your own redeeming. Receive them into the arms of your mercy, into the blessed rest of everlasting peace, and into the glorious company of the saints in light. Amen.

May their souls + and the souls of all the departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Almighty God, our Father in heaven, before whom live all who die in the Lord: Receive our pre-born brothers and sisters into the courts of your heavenly dwelling place. Let their hearts and souls now ring out in joy to you, O Lord, the living God, and the God of those who live. This we ask through Christ our Lord. Amen.

DAILY COLLECTS

Sunday - Rescue of the Pre-born
O God of Beginnings, You are the Creator of all life. As we begin this week, be near us as we unite with our Pre-born brothers and sisters who are scheduled for death. May you by your Holy Spirit and by the voice of your church lead your people to rescue from death the innocent children and bring those who participate in their death to true repentance that they may taste of your goodness and mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Monday - Spiritual Warfare
Almighty and Powerful God, drive all evil spirits away from the innocent Pre-born children and from the killing centers where their destruction is planned. Overcome evil with good in the hearts of those who reject your truth and who have believed the lies of the evil one who would say that good is evil and evil is good. Rebuke the enemy for the sake of innocent children and for your sake Oh Lord; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Tuesday - Kingdom Prayer
Oh Great King of Kings, let your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven for the sanctity of all human life. You have said that your Kingdom is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Where there is unrighteousness let righteousness come to bear; where there is hostility, cause your peace to reign supreme and where there is sorrow, bring joy in the hearts of people. Lead us into your unshakable and everlasting kingdom in which you reign forever and ever, that truly the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdoms of our God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Wednesday - For Forgiveness
Oh God of mercy and grace, as you hung on the hard wooden cross, you asked that those who were putting you to death might be forgiven. Please Oh Lord help us to offer that same forgiveness to those who participate in abortion, euthanasia, the destruction of embryonic life and who by other means violate the sanctity of human life, that in all things the world would know the height, the depth, the breadth, and width of your love, your mercy and your grace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Thursday - Restoration of the Holiness and Protection of the Womb
Oh Holy God, our Rock and our Fortress, you used the womb of Mary to be a tabernacle for the dwelling of the Incarnation, where the Holy Son of God was to be nurtured and protected. You created the womb of woman that the miracle of human life might be nurtured and protected. Many women have been deceived to believe that their womb is not a place of holy protection for a human life, but that it is simply another appendage of their body. Renew and restore your purpose and will concerning the womb of all women throughout the earth, that you may be glorified; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Friday - For Governments
Oh Ruler of the nations, many of the kings of the earth have set themselves against you, they rebel against your rule. Yet you have set your King on your holy hill of Zion so that in every local, state, provincial and national government you would rule in the midst of your enemies. We pray that you would strengthen and uphold those rulers that, by your grace, are following your ways and purpose. Make your enemies a footstool for your feet, that all people in all nations would kiss the Son, so they may know that happy are those who take refuge in you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, forever and ever. Amen

Saturday - For an End to Abortion
Oh God, who is the Beginning and the End, hear our prayers as we cry out to you to end the merciless shedding of innocent blood in our nation and throughout the world. Through death you have conquered death and through your life we experience eternal and everlasting life. Cause life to spring forth in the hearts of all people and bring forth a love and respect for life that will dominate our culture. May your kingdom and church apprehend and overtake the culture of death that has prevailed through deceit and selfishness; may the Seed of the woman crush the head of the serpent through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen



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