ST ALPHONSUS

ST ALPHONSUS

THE LITTLE CHAPLET OF THE FIVE WOUNDS OF JESUS CRUCIFIED
also known as
The Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Jesus 

St Alphonsus Liguori, a devotional writer and founder of the Redemptorist Fathers, a religious community. He wrote in his 1761 book, The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ, the devotional as a meditation prayer on the five piercing wounds that Christ suffered during His Crucifixion.

O my Lord Jesus Christ, I adore the Wound in Thy Left Foot.
I thank Thee for having suffered it for me with so much sorrow and with so much love.
I compassionate Thy pain, and that of Thine afflicted Mother.
And, by the merit of this Sacred Wound, I pray Thee to grant me the pardon of my sins,
of which I repent with all my heart, because they have offended Thine infinite goodness.
O Sorrowing Mary, pray to Jesus for me.

Our Father…   Hail Mary…   Glory Be… 

By all the wounds which Thou didst bear 
With so much love and so much pain, 
O let a sinner’s prayer 
Thy Mercy, Lord, obtain! 

O my Lord Jesus Christ, I adore the Wound in Thy Right Foot.
I thank Thee for having suffered it for me with so much sorrow and with so much love.
I compassionate Thy pain, and that of Thine afflicted Mother.
And, by the merit of this Sacred Wound, I pray Thee to give me the strength not to fall into mortal sin for the future,
but to persevere in Thy grace unto my death.
O Sorrowing Mary, pray to Jesus for me.

Our Father…   Hail Mary…   Glory Be… 

By all the wounds which Thou didst bear 
With so much love and so much pain, 
O let a sinner’s prayer 
Thy Mercy, Lord, obtain! 

O my Lord Jesus Christ, I adore the Wound in Thy Left Hand.
I thank Thee for having suffered it for me with so much sorrow and with so much love.
I compassionate Thy pain, and that of Thine afflicted Mother.
And, by the merit of this Sacred Wound, I pray Thee to deliver me from Hell,
which I have so often deserved, where I could never love Thee more.
O Sorrowing Mary, pray to Jesus for me.

Our Father…   Hail Mary…   Glory Be… 

By all the wounds which Thou didst bear 
With so much love and so much pain, 
O let a sinner’s prayer 
Thy Mercy, Lord, obtain! 

O my Lord Jesus Christ, I adore the Wound in Thy Right Hand.
I thank Thee for having suffered it for me with so much sorrow and with so much love.
I compassionate Thy pain, and that of Thy most afflicted Mother.
And, by the merit of this Sacred Wound, I pray Thee to give me the glory of Paradise,
where I shall love Thee perfectly, and with all my strength.
O Sorrowing Mary, pray to Jesus for me.

Our Father…   Hail Mary…   Glory Be… 

By all the wounds which Thou didst bear 
With so much love and so much pain, 
O let a sinner’s prayer 
Thy Mercy, Lord, obtain! 


O my Lord Jesus Christ, I adore the Wound in Thy Sacred Side.
I thank Thee for having willed, even after Thy death, to suffer this additional injury, without pain indeed, yet with consummate love.
I compassionate Thine afflicted Mother, who alone felt all its pain.
And, by the merit of this Sacred Wound, I pray Thee to bestow upon me the gift of Holy Love for Thee,
that so I may ever love Thee in this life, and in the other, face to face, for all eternity, in Paradise.
O Sorrowing Mary, pray to Jesus for me.

Our Father…   Hail Mary…   Glory Be… 

By all the wounds which Thou didst bear 
With so much love and so much pain, 
O let a sinner’s prayer 
Thy Mercy, Lord, obtain!