Novenas
The Chaplet of the Five Wounds
Begin: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
For each of the Five Wounds — the wound of the left foot, the right foot, the left hand, the right hand, and the Sacred Side — pray five Hail Marys, and after each set:
Praise and thanksgiving be evermore to Thee, most loving Jesus, who hast saved us by Thy Blood and Thy most bitter death.
At the wound of the Sacred Side, pray five Glory Bes in place of the Hail Marys, in thanksgiving for the Sorrowful Heart of Mary.
Conclude:
O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, by the five wounds which Thou didst suffer for love of us upon the Cross, deliver us from all evil, and lead us where Thou art gone before, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen.
Traditional Franciscan and Passionist devotion
About the prayer
A medieval devotion honoring the five wounds of the crucified Christ, prayed by Franciscans and Servites from at least the thirteenth century and given fresh form by the Passionists. The wounds have always been understood as the doorways of mercy: Scripture says "by his stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5). The…
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