I have been instructed by our religious classmate Vicky (her TV channel is on EWTN always) to please pray this prayer daily. According to her, it is a promise of our Lord to St. Bernard - whoever venerates and honor His Sacred Shoulder Wound will be forgiven of all venial and mortal sins. How remiss of me! I'm always thinking of Jesus' 5 wounds only but not his shoulder wound (for carrying the Cross).
PRAYER TO THE SHOULDER WOUND OF JESUS
O most loving Jesus, meek Lamb of God, I a miserable sinner, salute and worship the most Sacred Wound of thy Shoulder to which 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 of Thy Most Blessed Body. I adore Thee, O Jesus most sorrowful; I praise and glorify Thee and give Thee thanks for this most sacred and painful Wound, beseeching Thee by that exceeding pain and by the crushing burden of Thy heavy Cross to be merciful to me, a sinner, to forgive me all my mortal and venial sins, and to lead me on towards Heaven along the Way of Thy Cross. Amen.
More On St. Bernard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_of_clairvaux http://www.thesacredheart.com/shwound.htm
[ Photo: Angie is the one standing in the center in the 2005 USTPMTBBAA Grand Reunion in Las Vegas]
