To Our Lord Jesus
Prayer before Jesus Christ Crucified
The traditional prayer before a crucifix, dwelling on the five wounds. The booklet follows it with an Our Father, a Hail Mary and a Glory Be for the Holy Father’s intentions.
My good and gentle Jesus, I kneel before You, asking You most earnestly to engrave upon my heart a deep and lively faith, hope and charity, with true repentance for my sins and a firm resolve to make amends.
As I reflect upon Your five wounds, and dwell upon them with deep compassion and grief, I recall, good Jesus, the words the prophet David spoke long ago concerning Yourself: “They have pierced My hands and My feet; they have counted all My bones.”
For the Holy Father
For the intentions of the Holy Father, that God may fill him with wisdom in guiding the Church, pray one Our Father, one Hail Mary and one Glory Be.
From the Community’s prayer book.