The Five Wounds and Seven Words Chaplet

Unlike the other chaplets, this one involves some repetition - the Seven Words are repeated between each cruciform bead. It also turns the beads upside-down and backwards, in a sense; the first cruciform bead is at the top rather than the bottom, and the "introit" bead is last instead of first. (I am assuming that you will work clockwise around the beads.)

The traditional Seven Words (i.e. sayings) of Christ on the Cross are arrived at by compiling information together from all the Gospels. He may, of course, have said other things which were not recorded.

I also have a meditation on the Five Wounds which gives more associations to work with.

Meditation	Reference
*The Cruciform Beads: the Five Wounds of Christ on the Cross*
The Crown of Thorns	Mt 27:29; Mk 15: 17; Jn 19:2
The nail in his left hand	(Not explicitly described in the Gospels)
The nail in his feet
The nail in his right hand
The spear in his side (Introit bead)	Jn 19:34
The Weeks: the Seven Words of Christ on the Cross
Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.	Lk 23:34
Today you will be with me in paradise.	Lk 23:43
Here is your son. Here is your mother.	Jn 19:25-27
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?	Mt 27:46; Mk 15:34
I thirst.	Jn 19:28
It is finished.	Jn 19:30
Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.	Lk 23:46

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