“My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch with me” (Matthew 26:38).
February 6, 1996
Jesus Christ
From Jesus
“Whatever you surrender to My Sacred Wounds, I will bless with My Provision. Most especially, venerate and adore the wound of My Shoulder. It is most powerful because, throughout My Passion, it remained hidden and unremarkable. Nothing you place in My Wounds will escape My Grace and Mercy.” (Holy Love)
“Holy and Sacred Wounds, hidden in the shoulder of Jesus throughout His Passion, to you I surrender my greatest and most urgent needs. Cover my petitions with Your Most Precious Blood, Lord Jesus, thus preventing any evil from prevailing over these needs. Now present in Your most painful wounds and by merit of Your suffering, I trust my prayer will be answered. Amen.” (Holy Love, January 6, 1997 )
Source: https://marie-juliejahenny.blogspot.com/p/devotion-to-wound-of-shoulder-new.html
It is related in the annals of Clairvaux that St. Bernard asked our Lord which was His greatest unrecorded suffering, and Our Lord answered: “I had on My Shoulder, while I bore My Cross on the Way of Sorrows, a grievous Wound, which was more painful than the others, and which is not recorded by men. Honor this wound with thy devotion, and I will grant thee whatsoever thou dost ask through its virtue and merit. And in regard to all those who shall venerate this Wound, I will remit to them all their venial sins, and will no longer remember their mortal sins.” (see note below regarding indulgence)
Unknown to many Catholics who practice the devotion to this Holy Wound, many believe it was first attributed to St. Bernard and that Christ promised him He would forgive all venial sins and ‘no longer remember anyone’s mortal sins’ if they remembered His Wound once a day — the indulgence attached to this revelation has been condemned by the Holy See under the reign of Pope Leo XIII! (Click here for info on other condemned indulgences.)
However, don’t worry!
It appears Our Lord is still extremely pleased with this devotion, for He gave to Marie-Julie Jahenny various graces and promises to those who remained faithful in remembering with love His most painful and almost forgotten wound.
Our Lord
showed her this gaping, open Wound and revealed its depth:
“The Pain
is incomprehensible in the hearts of My children! How this devotion
pleases and consoles Me, how often have the prayers of these Wounds risen to My
Heart and have torn (open) the (way of) salvation for souls entrusted to Hell.”
(May 17, 1878)
Promises and graces revealed to Marie-Julie Jahenny for those who honour His Sacred Wound of the Shoulder:
1 – “I will bless all the souls who propagate this devotion: I grant them abundant graces.” (March 29, 1878)
2 – “O souls who love Me, who propagate this devotion, I take you under My protection, I keep you under the mantle of My affection.” (March 29, 1878)
3 – “I will dispel the darkness that will come to their heart.” (December 28, 1877)
4 – “I will console them in their pains.” “I will come in the midst of their greatest afflictions, to enlighten, to comfort them.” (February 8, 1878) (28 December 1877,February 8 and April 12, 1878)
5 – “I will come to bless them in their undertakings.” (March 29, 1878)
6 – “I will give them a tender love for the Cross. I will come to assist them at the time of death, with this cross and I will introduce them into My Heavenly Kingdom.” (April 12, 1878)
7 – “I will sweeten their agony.” (December 28, 1877). “I will come at the hour of death. I will console them in their passage.” (February 8, 1878).
“Especially at the hour of death, I will come to give them a sweet moment of calm and tranquillity. I will tell them: ‘O good holy soul, who has spread this devotion (knowing) that I had so much at heart that it be made known, come to receive the reward of your labours, the fruit of blessing.’.” (March 29, 1878)
8 – “I will shelter them, I will assist them, I will console all the souls that seek to propagate this Sacred Wound. At the time of death, I will console the souls that have compensated Me by their devotion and compassion to the Wound so deep and painful. I will come to strengthen them in their final fears. I will come and prepare their passage: Thank you, you who have compensated Me for My pains.” (May 17,1878)
9 – “See,” Jesus said,
pointing to His Sacred Wound with extreme tenderness, “all My children who have
recognised this Wound, who have venerated it, have prayed to it, will have on
the Last Day a great and generous reward. I do not simply show it, I pronounce
it. My Word is Divine.” (May 17, 1878)
In obedience to the Holy See, please do not spread the story about St. Bernard, it might contain the condemned indulgence, not to mention people might think the devotion can be used as an excuse to not go to confession to be absolved of mortal sins. MORTAL SINS MUST BE CONFESSED! However, you can safely spread the promises given to Marie-Julie Jahenny.
“O Loving Jesus, meek Lamb of God, I miserable sinner, salute and worship the most Sacred Wound of Thy Shoulder on which Thou didst bear Thy heavy Cross, which so tore Thy flesh and laid bare Thy Bones as to inflict on Thee an anguish greater than any other wound of Thy Most Blessed Body. I adore Thee, O Jesus most sorrowful; I praise and glorify Thee, and give Thee thanks for this most sacred and painful Wound, beseeching Thee by that exceeding pain, and by the crushing burden of Thy heavy Cross to be merciful to me, a sinner, and to lead me on towards Heaven along the Way of Thy Cross. Amen.” Imprimatur, Thomas D. Beven, Bishop of Springfield.
Saint Padre Pio kept a devotion and also suffered the same wound himself as a stigmata. When Pope Saint John Paul II was still a priest he visited Padre Pio and asked him which wound was his most painful. Father Wojtyła expected that it was his chest wound, but the saint replied:
“It is my shoulder wound, which no one knows about and has never been cured or treated.”
Prior to his death, Padre Pio confided to Brother Modestino Fucci at his friary in San Giovanni Rotondo that his greatest pains happened when took off his shirt. At the time, Fucci believed it to be his chest wounds much like John Paul II. When he was later assigned the task of inventorying all the items inside the cell of the late Padre Pio, he noticed his undershirts had blood stains on the right shoulder.
That night, Brother Fucci prayed asking Padre Pio for a sign if he truly bore the shoulder wound of Christ. At 1 A.M., he awoke with an excruciating pain in his right shoulder and the room was filled the aroma of flowers, the sign Padre Pio’s spiritual presence, and he heard a voice call out: “This is what I had to suffer!”
