How Pleasing It Is to Our Lord to Pray with Hands Outstretched in Form of the Cross
Preces Gertrudianae, compiled by Thomas Alder Pope, 1861Source and notes
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| Printed in | Preces Gertrudianae: Prayers of St Gertrude and St. Mechtilde of The Order of St. Benedict. |
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| Imprint | LONDON, BURNS AND LAMBERT, 1861 |
| Pages | pp. 11–12 |
| Scan | leaf 23, leaf 24 of the Internet Archive copy |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
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- St. Gertrude the Great
St. Gertrude said to our Lord: Teach me, O thou best Teacher, some one way at least in which we may most specially set forth the memory of thy holy Passion. Our Lord answered her thus: When you pray, spread forth your hands so as to represent to God the Father the memory of my Passion, in union with that love with which I stretched out my hands on the cross; and if you do this habitually, without fear of ridicule or reproach, you will pay me an honour as great as is shown to a king when he is solemnly enthroned.