Prayer
to Jesus on the Cross
O Jesus, for how
many ages have You been on the Cross and yet people pass by in
utter disregard of You except to pierce once again Your Sacred
Heart. How often have I passed You by, heedless of Your
overwhelming sorrow, Your countless wounds, Your infinite love.
How often have I stood before You, not to comfort and console
You, but to offend You by my conduct or neglect of You, to scorn
Your love. You have stretched out Your Hands to comfort me, and I
have seized those Hands - that might have consigned me to hell -
and have bent them back upon the Cross, nailing them rigid and
helpless to it. Yet I have only succeeded in imprinting my name
on Your palms forever. You have loved me with an infinite love
and I have taken advantage of that love to sin all the more
against You. Yet my ingratitude has only succeeded in piercing
Your Sacred Heart and causing Your Precious Blood to flow forth
upon me.
O Jesus, let Your
Blood be upon me, not for a curse, but for a blessing.
Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on me. Amen.
Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on me. Amen.
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