THE LITANY OF THE SACRED WOUNDS
The Assisi Project A Fellowship of Franciscans in Spirit | Founded in 2007 BY ASSISIPROJECT THE LITANY OF THE SACRED WOUNDS By Saint Clare of Assisi Introduced by Cliff Garvey Pope Francis speaks often about his devotion to the Five Wounds of the Crucified Christ. During a homily not long ago, the Holy Father shared the advice of a spiritual director who once said: “Look at the wounds. Enter into the wounds. By these wounds, we were healed. Do you feel bitter, feel sad, feel that life is not going the right way…Look there, into the wounds, in silence (2-23-18).” More recently, in his homily for Ash Wednesday, Pope Francis said: “Let us contemplate those wounds. In them, we recognize our emptiness and our shortcomings; the wounds of our sins, and all of the hurts that we have experienced. But there, too, we see clearly that God points the finger at no one, but rather, he opens his arms to embrace us. His wounds were inflicted for our sake, and by those wounds we have been healed.” The