Sevenoaks, St John the Baptist: Vienna X

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Vienna X

The blessed Sacrament Chapel has a reredos which was made up of several different ancient ones. It is said that part of it was made from the ransom money of Richard the Lionheart. The tabernacle is in the form of the Shroud of Turin.

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O Jesus, who in Thy bitter Passion didst become "the most abject of men, a man of sorrows", I venerate Thy Sacred Face whereon there once did shine the beauty and sweetness of the Godhead; but now it has become for me as if it were the face of a leper! Nevertheless, under those disfigured features, I recognize Thy infinite Love and I am consumed with the desire to love Thee and make Thee loved by all men. O Jesus, I implore Thee to fix deep within me Thy divine image and to set me on fire with Thy Love, that I may be found worthy to come to the contemplation of Thy glorious Face in Heaven. Amen.