Sometimes, too, when I pray the Sign of the Cross in connection with the Stations of the Cross, I think of Jesus’ Five Wounds associated with the Crucifixion-plus a sixth ( the crown of thorns, which I understand from presentations on the Shroud of Turin, was more like a woven-basket than a ringlet of thorns). I still pray those ending five Our Fathers, which I do first thing when I enter a Church before Mass, and greet Jesus in the Tabernacle. Yet, there is one aspect of the devotion that I have maintained. Regrettably over the years, I have grown lax –and ultimately stopped praying the “Fifteen Prayers,” even though I loved them so much. “O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, receive this prayer in that most exceeding love wherewith Thou didst bear all the wounds of Thy most sacred Body, and remember me Thy servant, and to all sinners, and all the faithful, living and dead, give mercy, grace, remission, and eternal life. “O sweet Jesus, wound my heart, that tears of penitence and love may be my food night and day, and bring me entirely to Thee, that my heart may ever be habitable for Thee, and my conversation pleasing and acceptable to Thee and the end of my life so praiseworthy, that after the close of this life, I may deserve to praise Thee with all Thy saints forever. Bridget in the Jubilee Year 1350, when she was praying before a Crucifix.Īfter the last of the “Fifteen Prayers,” which have been prayed by the faithful since the Middle Ages, prayers which Pope Pius IX approved, there is the following beautiful conclusion in which five Our Fathers are interspersed between the two final prayers: Bridget," prayers that Jesus had given St. For a number of years, I prayed the “Fifteen Prayers of St. Pope John Paul II as a co-patron of Europe. One of the Saints who has especially helped me to be more conscious of all the wounds suffered by Our Blessed Savior during His Passion is St. “Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.” (John 20:29) Then Jesus invited us, too, to believe, when He said to St. “Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe.” (John 20:27) John (20:26-28) calls our attention to the Five Wounds of Jesus, which He suffered on the Cross wounds which remain visible on His Glorified Body.Īs proof of His Resurrection, Jesus invited St. On Divine Mercy Sunday, the Gospel of St. One of the blessings of sharing on Catholic365 is that as I research to verify what I “know,” I learn additional things that I didn’t know! …And that is precisely what happened as I prepared for this article about devotion to the Five Sacred Wounds of Jesus. He bore the punishment that makes us whole, by His wounds we were healed. We thought of Him as stricken, struck down by God and afflicted, but He was pierced for our sins, crushed for our iniquity. “Yet it was our pain that He bore, our sufferings He endured.
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