The Wound in the Shoulder

It is related in the annals of Clairvaus that St. Bernard asked Our 
Lord which was His greatest unrecorded suffering and that Our Lord 
answered, "I had on my shoulder while I bore My cross on the Way of 
Sorrows a grievous wound which was more painful than the others which 
is not recorded by men. Honor this wound with devotion, and I will 
grant thee whatsoever thou dost ask through its virtue and merit, and 
in return to all who venerate this wound I will remit to them all 
their venial sins and will no longer remember their mortal sins.

     O most loving Jesus, meek lamb of God, I a miserable sinner,
     salute and worship the most sacred wound of Thy shoulder. Alone
     thou didst bear Thy heavy cross which so tore Thy flesh and laid
     bare Thy bones as to inflict on Thee an anguish greater than any
     other wound on Thy Blessed Body. I adore Thee, O Jesus, Most
     Sorrowful, I praise and glorify Thee and give Thee thanks for
     this most secret painful wound, beseeching Thee by the merit and
     pain of Thy heavy cross to be merciful to me a sinner and to
     forgive me my mortal and venial sins and to lead me on towards
     heaven along the Way of the Cross. Amen

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  Submitted to Catholic Prayers 
(http://www.webdesk.com/catholic/prayers/index.html) on March 25, 
1996 by methe@holycross.edu

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