Prayer Before a Crucifix

While before your face I humbly kneel,
And with burning soul, pray and beseech You
To fix deep in my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope and charity,
True contrition for my sins, and a firm amendment;
While I Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus,
contemplate, with great love and tender pity,
Your five most precious wounds,
Pondering over them within me,
Calling to mind the words which David, Your prophet said of You, my Jesus:
"They have pierced My hands and my feet,
They have numbered all My bones."
Amen

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