THE

HOLY CROSS
I N R I
OH! LORD ALMIGHTY
YOU HAVE SUFFERED
DEATH AT THE CROSS
FOR OUR SINS. OH!
HOLY CROSS OF JESUS
BE MY TRUE LIGHT.
OH! HOLY CROSS OF
JESUS FILL MY SOUL
WITH GOOD THOUGHTS
OH! HOLY CROSS SAFELY GUARD ME AGAINST UNHOLY THOUGHTS AND WORDLY
DANGERS THAT I MAY WORSHIP THE HOLY CROSS OF JESUS OF NAZARETH CRUCIFIED
HAVE PITY ON ME. OH! HOLY CROSS OF JESUS BE MY HOPE. OH HOLY
CROSS HAVE MERCY ON ME FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN. IN HONOR OF THE PRECIOUS
BLOOD OF JESUS AND HIS FEARFUL DEATH AND RESURRECTION AND HIS GLORIFICATION,
WHICH LEADS TO EVERLASTING LIFE. AS TRUE AS JESUS WAS BORN AT
CHRISTMAS AND CRUCIFIED ON GOOD FRIDAY, AS TRUE AS SAINT JOSEPH AND
NICODEMUS TOOK JESUS DOWN FROM THE CROSS, AS TRUE AS JESUS ASCENDED
INTO HEAVEN, MAY HE PRESERVE ME FROM MY ENEMIES BOTH VISIBLE AND
INVISIBLE FOREVER
AND EVER. AMEN. LORD
ALMIGHTY, UNTO YOUR
HAND I GIVE MY SOUL
AND MY BODY . OH!
LORD JESUS GRANT ME
STRENGTH TO BEAR MY
CROSS AS YOURSELF.
TEACH ME TO BEAR IT
WITH GREAT HUMILITY
THAT THE VIRGIN MAY
FILL ME WITH THE HOLY
S PIRIT . P RESERVE MY
SOUL AND LEAD IT TO
LI F E EVERLASTING.
A M E N
THIS PRAYER WAS FOUND IN
THE SEPULCHER OF THE LORD
J ES U S IN T H E Y E AR 1709
AND WAS SENT BY THE POPE TO
EMPEROR CHARLES ON THE EVE
OF HIS DEPARTURE TO FIGHT HIS
ENEMIES AND BY HIM SENT TO ST. MICHAEL
IN FRANCE. WHEN THIS PRAYER IS IN THE
HOUSE, THE HOUSE WILL BE SAFELY
GUARDED FROM THUNDER AND LIGHTNING
AND WHOEVER READS OR HEARS THIS PRAYER IT WILL NEVER BE
BURNED DROWN NOR WILL ANY POISON HAVE EFFECT. IT WILL NEVER
BE A PRISONER OF WAR OR WILL EVER BE VANQUISHED. WHEN A
WOMAN HAS LABOR PAINS LET HER WEAR THIS PRAYER AND SHE WILL
IMMEDIATELY BE DELIVERED, AND WHEN A CHILD IS BORN, PLACE THIS PRAYER ON THE RIGHT
SIDE AND IT WILL BE SAFELY PRESERVED OF ALL ACCIDENTS. IF SOMEONE HAVING FITS, PUT THIS
PRAYER ON THE NEAR SIDE AND HE WILL BE CURED “WHOEVER CARRIES THIS PRAYER, IT WILL
NEVER HAVE ANY EPILEPTIC ATTACKS WHOEVER WRITES THIS PRAYER TO HIMSELF AND FOR
OTHERS. I WILL BLESS. BUT WHOEVER SCOFFS OR LAUGHS AT IT WILL BE DOOMED” SAYS THE
LORD. WHOEVER READS THIS PRAYER DAILY WILL BE WARNED BY A HOLY SIGN THREE
DAYS BE FO R E D E A T H . L ET U S P R AY TH E H O LY C R O S S O F T HE L O R D J ES U S C HR IS T .