Prayer While Kissing the Crucifix Before Communion
Welcome Jesus into your heart while venerating the crucifix.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
Here kiss the crucifix, and say with St. Gertrude:
O MOST loving Jesus, I embrace thee with the profoundest love of my heart, and in union with all the love of the prayers which ever flowed forth from thy sweetest lips, I beseech thee that thou wouldst deign to turn aside into the mean and wretched inn of my heart.