American Saints and Causes presents the stories of many holy men and women of the United States and their love of Christ. While we strive to be a comprehensive source of information on these individuals, we hope that American Saints and Causes will stir your soul and lead you to ask what is the unique mission that God might be calling you to live. A first step in that would be a desire to pray. On each page of a Saint, Blessed, Venerable or Servant of God we provide a prayer for intercession of that individual, as well as quotes from the individual’s spiritual writings, if available. But we recognize some of you may be moved to foster a relationship with many who appear on American Saints and Causes. As it would not be practical to do so by saying all of the individual intercessory prayers, we have composed this Litany for the United States as a method of invoking all of the holy men and women of the United States together in a single prayer. Additionally, we hope you will find it a help to be able to pray for the well being of the United States and the Catholic Church in the United States. Most of all, we hope you will find it a help in growing in your faith and witness to Christ in your own life, which in turn may be just what the United States and its culture needs to be drawn closer to God.
Below is the Litany for the United States. You can also download a PDF of the Litany for the United States by clicking here.
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.
Holy Mary, pray for us.
Mary the Immaculate Conception, pray for us.
Our Lady of Champion, pray for us.
St. Joseph, pray for us.
Pillar of Families, pray for us.
Terror of Demons, pray for us.
St. Isaac Jogues, pray for us.
St. René Goupil, pray for us.
St. Jean de Lalande, pray for us.
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, pray for us.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, pray for us.
St. Bishop John Neumann, pray for us.
St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, pray for us.
St. Katharine Drexel, pray for us.
St. Mother Théodore Guérin, pray for us.
St Damien De Veuster of Molokai, pray for us.
St. Marianne Cope, pray for us.
St. Kateri Tekakwitha, pray for us.
St. Junipero Serra, pray for us.
All you holy Saints of the United States, pray for us.
Bl. Diego Luis de San Vitores, pray for us.
Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos, pray for us.
Bl. Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago, pray for us.
Bl. Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, pray for us.
Bl. Stanley Rother, pray for us.
Bl. Solanus Casey, pray for us.
Bl. James Miller, pray for us.
Bl. Michael McGivney, pray for us.
All you holy Blesseds of the United States, pray for us.
Ven. Cornelia Peacock Connelly, pray for us.
Ven. Samuel Mazzuchelli, pray for us.
Ven. Mother Mary Theresa Dudzik, pray for us.
Ven. Pierre Toussaint, pray for us.
Ven. Maria Kaupas, pray for us.
Ven. Henriette DeLille, pray for us.
Ven. Nelson Baker, pray for us.
Ven. Félix Varela Morales, pray for us.
Ven. Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory, pray for us.
Ven. Bishop Frederic Baraga, pray for us.
Ven. Bishop Fulton Sheen, pray for us.
Ven. Celestina Bottego, pray for us.
Ven. Rafael Cordero Molina, pray for us.
Ven. Aloysius Schwartz, pray for us.
Ven. William Gagnon, pray for us.
Ven. Bishop Alphonse Gallegos, pray for us.
Ven. Teresa Fardella di Blasi, pray for us.
Ven. Patrick Peyton, pray for us.
Ven. Norbert McAuliffe, pray for us.
Ven. Antonietta Giugliano, pray for us.
Ven. María Soledad Sanjurjo, pray for us.
Ven. Victorino Arnaud, pray for us.
Ven. Augustus Tolton, pray for us.
Ven. Mother Mary Lange, pray for us.
Ven. Rose Hawthorne, pray for us.
All you holy Venerables of the United States, pray for us.
All you holy Servants of God of the United States, pray for us.
All you holy men and women of the United States, saints of God, intercede for us.
Be merciful, spare us, O Lord.
Be merciful, graciously hear us, O Lord.
From all evil, deliver us, O Lord.
From all sin, deliver us, O Lord.
From the deceits of the devil, deliver us, O Lord.
From anger, and hatred, and all ill-will, deliver us, O Lord.
From lust and all sins against chastity, deliver us, O Lord.
From pride and forgetting our dependency on You, deliver us, O Lord.
From a sudden and unprovided death, deliver us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, grow in knowledge and love of the Eucharist, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, grow in zeal to share the Gospel with all, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, grow in repentance and fill the lines of Confession, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, feed the hungry we encounter, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, give drink to the thirsty, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, shelter the homeless in our midst, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, visit and comfort the sick, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, visit the imprisoned and acknowledge their dignity before God, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, bury the dead, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, give alms to the poor in our communities, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, give counsel to those that doubt the truth of the Gospel, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, instruct those who do not know the faith, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, admonish sinners in love so they might experience the freedom awaiting us all in Christ, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, comfort the sorrowful and be Christ’s presence to them, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, reflect God's mercy by forgiving those that injure us, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, bear wrongs patiently and offer up our sufferings in reparation for sin, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, pray for the living and the dead, strengthen us, O Lord.
May we, the Church in the United States, grow in holiness and responsiveness to God’s grace, strengthen us, O Lord.
May religious liberty flourish in the United States, hear us, O Lord.
May the culture of the United States respect and cherish all human life, hear us, O Lord.
May our common dignity of being created in the image of God unite us and heal our wounds of division, hear us, O Lord.
May the leaders of the United States be guided by Your wisdom and love, hear us, O Lord.
May the United States be converted by Your grace and through our witness, hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, strengthen us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us.
Glory to Jesus Christ. Now and forever.
