The Litany of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ is one of the great litanies of the Church. It grew from the devotion of St Gaspar del Bufalo and his Missionaries of the Precious Blood, and was approved for the whole Church by Pope St John XXIII in 1960. In twenty-four invocations it gathers the entire mystery of our redemption — from the Agony in the Garden to the Blood poured out on the Cross and given us in the Eucharist. Here it is in full, Latin and English side by side, so you can pray it now without leaving the page.
Latine
Kyrie, eleison.
Christe, eleison.
Kyrie, eleison.
Christe, audi nos.
Christe, exaudi nos.
Pater de caelis, Deus, miserere nobis.
Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus, miserere nobis.
Spiritus Sancte, Deus, miserere nobis.
Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, miserere nobis.
Sanguis Christi, Unigeniti Patris aeterni, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, Verbi Dei incarnati, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, Novi et Aeterni Testamenti, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, in agonia decurrens in terram, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, in flagellatione profluens, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, in coronatione spinarum emanans, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, in Cruce effusus, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, pretium nostrae salutis, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, sine quo non fit remissio, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, in Eucharistia potus et lavacrum animarum, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, flumen misericordiae, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, victor daemonum, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, fortitudo martyrum, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, virtus confessorum, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, germinans virgines, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, robur periclitantium, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, levamen laborantium, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, in fletu solatium, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, spes paenitentium, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, solatium morientium, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, pax et dulcedo cordium, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, pignus vitae aeternae, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, animas liberans de lacu Purgatorii, salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, omni gloria et honore dignissimus, salva nos.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, parce nobis, Domine.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, exaudi nos, Domine.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
℣. Redemisti nos, Domine, in Sanguine tuo.
℟. Et fecisti nos Deo nostro regnum.
English
Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
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.
Blood of Christ, only-begotten Son of the eternal Father, save us.
Blood of Christ, Incarnate Word of God, save us.
Blood of Christ, of the New and Eternal Covenant, save us.
Blood of Christ, falling to the ground in the Agony, save us.
Blood of Christ, flowing forth in the Scourging, save us.
Blood of Christ, streaming forth in the Crowning with thorns, save us.
Blood of Christ, poured out upon the Cross, save us.
Blood of Christ, price of our salvation, save us.
Blood of Christ, without which there is no forgiveness, save us.
Blood of Christ, in the Eucharist, drink and cleansing of souls, save us.
Blood of Christ, stream of mercy, save us.
Blood of Christ, conqueror of demons, save us.
Blood of Christ, courage of the Martyrs, save us.
Blood of Christ, strength of the Confessors, save us.
Blood of Christ, bringing forth Virgins, save us.
Blood of Christ, strength of those in peril, save us.
Blood of Christ, relief of the burdened, save us.
Blood of Christ, comfort in weeping, save us.
Blood of Christ, hope of the penitent, save us.
Blood of Christ, consolation of the dying, save us.
Blood of Christ, peace and sweetness of hearts, save us.
Blood of Christ, pledge of eternal life, save us.
Blood of Christ, freeing souls from purgatory, save us.
Blood of Christ, most worthy of all glory and honour, save us.
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
℣. You have redeemed us, O Lord, in your Blood.
℟. And made us, for our God, a kingdom.
Oremus. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui unigenitum Filium tuum mundi Redemptorem constituisti, ac eius Sanguine placari voluisti: concede, quaesumus, salutis nostrae pretium ita venerari, atque a praesentis vitae malis eius virtute defendi in terris, ut fructu perpetuo laetemur in caelis. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
Let us pray. Almighty and eternal God, who appointed your only-begotten Son the Redeemer of the world, and willed to be appeased by his Blood: grant, we beg you, so to venerate the price of our salvation, and by its power to be defended from the evils of this present life on earth, that we may rejoice in its everlasting fruit in heaven. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
Keep it through July
Pray this litany at least once a week through July, the month of the Most Precious Blood — alone, with your family, or in a holy hour. Where the Litany speaks, the whole Gospel of our redemption is prayed in miniature: “You were ransomed … with the precious blood of Christ” (1 Pet 1:18–19). Sanguis Christi, salva me.
- The Most Precious Blood of Jesus: why July is dedicated to it — the story of the devotion and an Act of Consecration in Latin and English.
- The Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary: the apparitions and the 12 promises — June’s devotion, from which the month of the Blood flows.
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