Prayer Before The Crucifix
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Dear good and gentle Jesus, I come before You asking You most earnestly to engrave upon my heart a deep and lively faith, hope and charity, true repentance for my sins, and a firm resolve to make amends.  As I reflect upon Your five most precious wounds of crucifixion and contemplate them with great love and tender pity, I recall the words said of You long ago, dear Jesus:  "They have pierced my hands and my feet; they have counted all my bones."  Permit me never to be separated from You, O Lord, and protect me from all that is harmful and evil.  Amen