O most meek Jesu, by the saving Wound of thy Right Foot, forgive r whatsoever sins of evil thoughts I have committed against thee; and by infinite merits make up to me whatever I have lost by the neglect of h thoughts: so that henceforth I may desire thee, my chief and only good, a seek and find thee alone whom my soul loveth. Amen.
St Gregory’s Prayer Book, 297
Category: Five Wounds
five wounds
O LORD Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, who didst come down from heaven to earth from the bosom of the Father, and didst bear five wounds on the Cross, and didst pour forth thy precious Blood for the remission of our sins: we humbly beseech thee; that at the day of judgement we may be set at thy right hand, and hear from thee that most comfortable word, Come ye blessed into my Father’s Kingdom; who livest and reignest with the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
marks of the Passion
One night the devil appeared to St Martin [of Tours] crowned with gold and gems, and in a magnificent vestment sparkling with jewels. ‘I am come in judgement’, he said, ‘Adore me.’ ‘Where’, asked Martin, ‘are the mark of the nails, the piercing of the spear, the crown of thorns? When I see the marks of the Passion I shall adore the Lord’. The devil disappeared.
