Prayer to Our Lord Jesus Christ Bound to the Column and Scourged
The New Raccolta, 1903, no. 16Source and notes
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| Printed in | THE NEW RACCOLTA, OR, COLLECTION OF PRAYERS AND GOOD WORKS. TO WHICH THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFFS HAVE ATTACHED HOLY INDULGENCES. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING PRAYERS FOR MASS, AND VESPERS FOR SUNDAYS. |
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| Imprint | PHILADELPHIA, PETER F. CUNNINGHAM & SON, 1903 |
| Number | 16 |
| Pages | pp. 182–183 |
| Scan | leaf 191, leaf 192 of the Internet Archive copy |
| Approval | FROM THE THIRD ITALIAN EDITION AUTHORIZED AND APPROVED BY THE SACRED CONGREGATION OF HOLY INDULGENCES. Imprimatur: ✠ JACOBUS, CARD. GIBBONS, ARCHIEP. BALTIMORENSIS. BALTIMORE, July 20, 1887. Imprimatur: ✠ PATRICK JOHN, ARCHBISHOP OF PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8, 1900. Moreover, Our Holy Father, Leo XIII., by virtue of his apostolic authority, has approved this Collection issued from the press of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda, and, therefore, it must be regarded by all as the correct and authorized collection of indulgences hitherto granted for all the faithful and for such as are in communities specially designated. Wherefore, if by chance any doubt should arise either as to sense of the grant or the conditions requisite for gaining the indulgences, it must be determined solely by this Raccolta which His Holiness has directed to be considered the complete guide. On this account he has ordered the present decree to be prepared and prefixed to the present edition. Given at Rome, at the office of the Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics, on the 23d day of July, 1898. FR. H. M. CARD. GOTTI, Prefect. L. ✠ S. † A. SABATUCCI, Archiep. Antinoen. Secretary. The Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics has approved of, as authentic, and permitted to be printed and published, this English translation of the Italian Raccolta, a book containing various prayers and pious exercises, to which the Roman Pontiffs have attached indulgences. This approbation was given after the work had been duly examined by two professors of theology of Woodstock College, who testified that they found this translation to be entirely faithful and in full accord with the Italian original, published in the year 1886 by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Given at Rome, at the Office of the Secretary of this same Sacred Congregation, April 28, 1887. FR. THOMAS MARIA CARD. ZIGLIARA, Prefect. [L. ✠ S.] ALEXANDER, BISHOP OENSIS, Secretary. DECRETUM ANNI 1886. |
| Indulgence | His Holiness, Pope Leo XIII., by a rescript of his Eminence the Cardinal Vicar, dated May 15, 1886, granted to all the faithful who, with contrite hearts, devoutly recite the above prayer: AN INDULGENCE OF ONE HUNDRED DAYS, once a day. |
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Albrecht Dürer, The Agony in the Garden, 1508. Art Institute of Chicago.
My divine Saviour! what didst thou become when, through love for souls, thou didst allow thyself to be bound to the column! Ah! how to the letter were then fulfilled the words of the prophet, that from head to foot thou wert all wounds, so much so as to be no longer recognizable. What confusion, when they stripped the garments from thy back! what a tearing of the limbs under the tempest of blows, multiplied beyond measure! How like a torrent the blood streamed from the opened veins!
But it was not so much the injustice of the Roman president, nor the cruelty of the soldiers, as my sins that scourged thee. O sad voluptuousness! which cost thee so much suffering. Oh! my hard heartedness when; knowing thee to have been so tormented for my sake, I have still continued to offend thee. But henceforth it shall be so no longer. United with thee by eternal bonds, and embracing thy column with thee, so long as life remains to me, I will make satisfaction to thy offended justice.
By the column to which thou wert bound, by the blows which furrowed thy innocent flesh, by the blood so copiously shed, merciful Lord, have pity on me, miserable creature; from the snares of the tempter deliver me to-day, and preserve me forever, until, having reached the end of my exile, thou wilt receive me into heaven. Amen.
His Holiness, Pope Leo XIII., by a rescript of his Eminence the Cardinal Vicar, dated May 15, 1886, granted to all the faithful who, with contrite hearts, devoutly recite the above prayer:
AN INDULGENCE OF ONE HUNDRED DAYS, once a day.