Other changes include the invocation of all canonized popes during the Litany of the Saints and updated translations of the liturgy. Ravelli said these changes were made “to emphasize even more ...

The Litany of the Saints is sung during the procession. (This is the often the favorite part of the Liturgy.) Veneration of Relics - The presiding priest or deacon first incenses the reliquary ...

According to tradition, this litany, approved in 1899 for public recitation ... delight of all the saints, . . . Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on us.

The men then lay prostrate on the floor of the basilica, symbolizing their total surrender to God as the congregation knelt and prayed the Litany of the Saints. In the most ancient part of the ...