AN OFFERING OF THE FIVE WOUNDS OF OUR LORD FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY |
I. We offer to thee, Eternal Father, Father of mercies, for those souls so dear to thee that are now in Purgatory, the most Precious Blood which flowed from the wound in the left foot of Jesus, thy Son, our Saviour, and the grief of Mary, his most loving Mother, present on Calvary when he was so cruelly wounded.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
II. We offer to thee, Eternal Father, Father of mercies, for those souls so dear to thee that are now in Purgatory, the most Precious Blood which flowed from the wound in the right foot of Jesus, thy Son, our Saviour, and the grief of Mary, his most loving Mother, present on Calvary when he was so cruelly wounded.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
III. We offer to thee, Eternal Father, Father of mercies, for those souls so dear to thee that are now in Purgatory, the most Precious Blood which flowed from the wound in the left hand of Jesus, thy Son, our Saviour, and the grief of Mary, his dearest Mother, present on Calvary when he was so cruelly wounded.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
IV. We offer to thee, Eternal Father, Father of mercies, for those souls so dear to thee that are now in Purgatory, the most Precious Blood which flowed from the wound in the right hand of Jesus, thy Son, our Saviour, and the grief of Mary, his dearest Mother, present on Calvary when he was so cruelly wounded.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
V. We offer to thee, Eternal Father, Father of mercies, for those souls so dear to thee that are now in Purgatory, the most Precious Blood and the water which flowed from the opened side of Jesus, thy Son, our Saviour, and the grief of Mary, his most loving Mother, present on Calvary when he was so cruelly wounded.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
And now, in order that our poor prayers may be made more worthy to be offered to God, we turn to thee, most gracious Lord Jesus, and humbly entreat thee that thou wouldst thyself offer to thy Eternal Father the sacred wounds in thy feet and hands and thy sacred side, together with thy most Precious Blood, thy agony and thy death. And thou, too, most sorrowful Mother, Mary, offer up, with the bitter passion of thy most beloved Son, the sighs and tears and all thy grief in his sufferings; in order that, through the merits of them all, the souls now suffering in the burning flames of Purgatory may obtain relief and refreshment, and thus, freed from that prison-house of torments, they may be clothed with glory in heaven, and there praise the divine mercy forever. Amen.
(Taken from The Raccolta, 1903.)
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