{"id":49695,"date":"2026-07-01T19:25:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veritasfoundation.co.uk\/2026\/07\/01\/litany-to-saint-john-paul-ii\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:27:08","slug":"litany-to-saint-john-paul-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritasfoundation.co.uk\/pl\/2026\/07\/01\/litany-to-saint-john-paul-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Litany to Saint John Paul II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord, have mercy. <em>Lord, have mercy.<\/em><br \/>Christ, have mercy. <em>Christ, have mercy.<\/em><br \/>Lord, have mercy. <em>Lord, have mercy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God our Father in heaven, <em>have mercy on us.<\/em><br \/>God the Son, Redeemer of the world, <em>have mercy on us.<\/em><br \/>God the Holy Spirit, <em>have mercy on us.<\/em><br \/>Holy Trinity, one God, <em>have mercy on us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Holy Mary, <em>pray for us.<\/em><br \/>Saint John Paul II, <em>pray for us.<\/em><br \/>Faithful servant of God, <em>pray for us.<\/em><br \/>Witness to the Gospel of Christ, <em>pray for us.<\/em><br \/>Apostle of Divine Mercy, <em>pray for us.<\/em><br \/>Defender of human dignity, <em>pray for us.<\/em><br \/>Champion of the family, <em>pray for us.<\/em><br \/>Friend of youth and the young, <em>pray for us.<\/em><br \/>Promoter of peace among nations, <em>pray for us.<\/em><br \/>Builder of bridges between peoples, <em>pray for us.<\/em><br \/>Messenger of hope to the world, <em>pray for us.<\/em><br \/>Man of prayer and contemplation, <em>pray for us.<\/em><br \/>Shepherd of the universal Church, <em>pray for us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, <em>spare us, O Lord.<\/em><br \/>Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, <em>graciously hear us, O Lord.<\/em><br \/>Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, <em>have mercy on us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pray for us, Saint John Paul II,<br \/><em>That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let us pray: O God, rich in mercy, who by the life, death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ gave us the paschal mystery as a sign of salvation and a pledge of eternal life, grant that Saint John Paul II, who shared in these mysteries in his priesthood, may now share in their eternal fruits. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Holy Mary, pray for us.Saint John Paul II, pray for us.Faithful &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/veritasfoundation.co.uk\/pl\/2026\/07\/01\/litany-to-saint-john-paul-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayers-en","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritasfoundation.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritasfoundation.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritasfoundation.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritasfoundation.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritasfoundation.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/veritasfoundation.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49703,"href":"https:\/\/veritasfoundation.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49695\/revisions\/49703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritasfoundation.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritasfoundation.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritasfoundation.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}