Prayers to Jesus, friend of sinners, healer of all
We merely have to look around us and winthin ourselves to see that something is not quite right in the world. There are so many injustices to eliminate, divisions and discriminations to overcome.
Yet we know that it is not enought to change things externally unless the heart of people is also changed. The root of every evil reside in the free and conscious person and the name of it is sin. It is sin that breaks our relationship with God and neighbor.
Christ knows and understands us as He was human and can relate to our weaknesses. We look to Him to forgive us and heal our relationship with His heavenly Father.
Prayer to Jesus on the Cross
O Jesus,
for how many ages have You been on the Cross and yet people pass by in utter disregard of You except to pierce once again Your Sacred Heart?
How often have I myself passed You by, heedless of Your overwhelming sorrow, Your countless wounds, and Your infinite love?
How often have I myself stood before You, not to comfort and console You, but to offend You by my conduct or neglect You and to scorn Your love?
You have stretched out Your Hands to comfort me, and I have seized those Hands- that might have consigned me to hell- and have bent them back upon the Cross, nailing Them rigid and helpless to it.
Yet I have only succeeded in imprinting my name on Your Palms forever. You have loved me with an infinite love and I have taken advantage of that love to sin all the more against You.
Yet my ingratitude has only succeeded in piercing Your Sacred Heart and causing Your Precious Blood to flow forth upon me.
O Jesus, let you Blood be upon me not for a curse but for a blessing. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world; have mercy on me! Amen.
Yours in Christ,
Maria 玛丽亚
CCEL Hostess