Chaplet of the Five Wounds

The Chaplet of the Five Wounds is a Passionist chaplet devoted to the Holy Wounds of Jesus,[1] as a means to promote devotion to the Passion of Christ.[2]

Icon of the Crucifixion, showing all of the Five Holy Wounds (13th century, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai).

The chaplet is due to Father Paul Aloysius, the sixth superior general of the Passionists. The devotion also honors the mystery of the risen Christ which has the marks of the Five Wounds. Pope Leo XII approved the chaplet in 1823.[3]

This chaplet must be blessed by the Passionist superior or a delegation from him.[1]

Format of the chaplet

This chaplet has 25 beads, grouped into five sets. The Gloria Patri is said on each bead.[3] At the end of each section of beads, a Hail Mary in honor of the sorrows of Mary is said. At the end of the chaplet, three additional Hail Marys are said in honor of her tears.

Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Jesus
Alphonsus kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament in a 19th-century stained glass window of Carlow Cathedral.

The Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Jesus or the Little Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Jesus Crucified is an earlier devotional prayer written in 1761[4] by St. Alphonsus Liguori, a devotional writer and founder of the Redemptorist Fathers religious community.[5]

St. Alphonsus wrote the devotional as a meditation on the five piercing wounds that Christ suffered during his crucifixion.[6]

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References
  1. Lea, Henry Charles (1896). A History of Auricular Confession and Indulgences in the Latin Church. Vol. 3: Indulgences. Philadelphia, USA: Lea Brothers. p. 525.
  2. Womack, Warren (December 1951). "Chaplet of the Five Wounds: Its history blessing and indulgences". The Passionist: 270-274, 333-334. Archived from the original on 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
  3. Ball, Ann (2003). Encyclopedia of Catholic Devotions and Practices. Our Sunday Visitor. p. 123-124. ISBN 978-0-87973-910-2.
  4. St. Alphonsus Liguori, by Rev. D.F. Miller & Rev. L.X. Auben, January 2009, page 176.
  5. Wuest, Joseph. "Redemptorists." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 2 Jun. 2013
  6. Liguori, Alfonso Maria de, Saint. The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ, p.472, Benziger Brothers, New York, 1887
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