A Litany In The Night.


For Your Church waiting for You, her Spouse, in the night,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.


For Your people, Israel, who listens to Your Word in the night and waits for the dawn of Your Kingdom,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.

For the pagan nations who are groping for You in the night,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.


For the countries on which the night of totalitarianism and the oppression of lies has fallen,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.


For our brothers and sisters who are persecuted in Your Name and who hide in the night to pray,
For those who are brutally taken away from their homes at night,
For the persecutors blinded by hate who do not know what they do,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.

For those who do not like us and whom we cannot love,
For those who consider evil,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.


For the sick,
For the people in hospitals who spend this night in suffering,
For the dying who will pass away during this night and whose eyes will not see the light of a new day,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.

For the anguished who cannot sleep and who fear that this night will never end,
For those who are tempted by suicide and whom the night surrenders into the hands of the prince of darkness,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.


For the prostitutes whose love people buy in the night,
For the people trapped in the snares of vice and drugs,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.


For the thieves and the criminals who commit evil with the complicity of this night,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.


For those who are imprisoned,
For those who are tortured and humiliated in the secrecy of the night,
For the condemned awaiting the night of their execution,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.

For the homeless,
For those who wander aimlessly in the night and who are only met with indifference,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.


For the babies in the night of their mothers’ womb,
For the babies who will never be born because of the selfishness of mankind,
For the children who are martyred,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.

For the blind whose night will never end,
For the mentally sick in the night of their mind,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.


For those who work and labour in this night,
For those who travel in the perils of the night,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.


For the inhabitants of our parish, our city, our diocese, who are asleep in this night,
For our brothers, our parents, those we love and You protect in their sleep,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.


For the families who are peacefully asleep,
For the women who are giving birth in his night,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.

For Pope Francis, our bishops,
For the priests, the deacons and the Christian faithful,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.


For the monastic communities who live here,
For the hermits who are keeping vigil in this night, waiting for Your Return,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.


For our deceased brothers and sisters who have not yet entered the light of Your Glory,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.

And for us sinners, who in this night are getting closer to the light of the Day which shall never end,
Lord Jesus, while we wait in the night, we pray.

Lifted from Catholic Answers.

It was written by Rev. Father Jean-Miguel Garrigues 3, a French Dominican priest and theologian, as a way of doing something useful off sleepless nights.