Prayer To Jesus Crucified Before The Image On The Holy Shroud

1. O my Crucified Jesus, bowed down before You, I behold the marks of Your Passion and Death, while Contemplating the Holy Shroud which enveloped Your Body when You were placed in the Holy Sepulchre after You were taken down from the Cross. The bruises and swellings caused by the buffeting, the scourging, the wounds, and the torments You endured with forbearance in obedience to Your Heavenly Father, are evident. You were in Your Passion, as Isaia's description of You: "a Man of Sorrows" and, in the words of David: "the reproach of men and the outcast of the people." With what fortitude of soul, with what resignation, with what spirit of humility You accepted the agony and endured it! Oh how trivial my sufferings seem in comparison with Yours, how unlike to You am I!

   O Lord grant that I may learn, from Your example, to endure my sufferings and to unite them with Yours, thus sanctifying and rendering them worthy of merit.                             Our Father...,   Hail Mary...,  Glory Be...

2.   O my Lord Jesus Christ, I weep with compassion while considering the suffering You endured during Your Passion and Death. The Holy Shroud in which You were enveloped and upon which You imprinted so many venerable signs of Your suffering proclaims the love You nourished for me. Indeed because of me Your Sacred Head was crowned with thorns,  Your side pierced by a lance, Your hands and feet pierced by spikes,                                                          Your  Sacred Body made an entire mass of wounds. Because of me: so that my sins would be expiated, Heaven be reopened to me and I be reconciled with You. Through the many sufferings which You endured for love of me, O Lord, I implore You to grant me the grace that my love for You may grow deeper, so that in living in Your grace and in laboring for Your glory, I may finally reap the reward  of eternal happiness in Paradise.                     Our Father...,   Hail Mary...,   Glory Be...

   3. O my Beloved Savior, The Holy Shroud, which enwrapped Your Body and numbered all Your wounds, and wherein Your Sacred Remains were placed, is a testimony to Your Glorious Resurrection. The Sacred Linen, which enveloped and covered You in those days of expectation, felt the first vibrations of the New Life to which Your Body was returning. When You gloriously left the Holy Sepulchre, You left the Holy Shroud as a witness of Your Passion and Your Resurrection. Thus it has become a pledge of the resurrection of those who believe in You and suffer with You, and the undeniable proof of the triumph of Your righteousness in its struggle against evil and of the reward which You have merited for all those who abide in Your Commandments and in Your love. Oh Lord, through Your Glorious Resurrection grant that in rising from a sinful state to a life of grace, I may be triumphant with You in a Blessed Eternity.   Amen.                                                          Our Father...,   Hail Mary...,   Glory Be...

Prayer

   O Lord, Who in the most Holy Shroud, has left manifestations of Your presence here below and evident tokens of Your love, by the merits of Your Holy Passion and out of regard for the venerable Linen which served for Your burial, mercifully grant, we beseech You, that in the resurrection we also may share in that glory, in which You shall reign for all eternity. Amen.

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