By Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153.
St. Bernard asked Our Lord which was His
greatest unrecorded suffering,
and He answered:
"I
had on My Shoulder while I bore My Cross on the Way of Sorrows,
a grevious
Wound which was more painful than the others,
and which is not recorded by
men.
Honor this Wound with thy devotion,
and I will grant thee
whatsoever thou does ask through its virtue and merit.
And in regard to all
those who shall venerate this wound,
I will remit to them all their venial
sins,
and will no longer remember their mortal sins."
Prayer to the Shoulder Wound of Christ:
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
"Most loving Jesus, meek Lamb of God, I, a miserable sinner,
salute and worship
the most Sacred Wound of Thy Shoulder on 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."
(Imprimatur: +Thomas D.
Beven, Bishop of Springfield.)
Recent scientific examiners of the Shroud of Turin reported that there are marks and blood spots which show that the person in the shroud carried the Patibulum, the crossbar of the cross on his shoulders. The Patibulum was thought to weigh about 75 pounds and that weight on the shoulders alone was capable of inflicting shoulder wounds in a fall as described by Saint Bernard.
"He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might
die to sin and live to righteousness.
By his wounds you have been
healed."
1Peter 2:24
Compiled by Bob Stanley, May 20,
2014
Galatians 4:16
