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Hi Frank,
I've been researching to try to find the information
your looking for and think I've found it.
Let me first say, the question, itself, is centered
around a private prayer devotion and has nothing
to do with the doctrine of the Church.
I'm questioning whether you are mixing up:
- St. Mary Magdalen of Sancta Clara, or
- St. Bridget
I found this on the https://mostsacredheart.com website. I think this is what you were looking for:
The Fifteen Secret Tortures And Sufferings Of Our Lord And Savior Jesus Christ.
I looked for one that would comfort
me, and I found none — Psalm 69:20
Revealed to the pious, God-loving Sister Mary Magdalen
of Sancta Clara Order, Franciscan, who lived, died
and was beatified in Rome. Jesus fulfilled the wish
of this Sister, who desired to ardently know something
about the secret sufferings which He endured the
night before His death.
This devotion is approved and recommended by His
Holiness Clement XII, (1730-1740)
- They fastened My feet with a rope and dragged
Me over the stepping stones of the staircase, down
into a filthy, nauseating cellar.
- They took off My clothing and stung My body
with iron joints.
- They attached a rope around My body and pulled
Me on the ground from end to end.
- They hanged Me on a wooden piece with a slip
knot until I slipped out and fell down. Overwhelmed
by this torture, I wept bloody tears.
- They tied Me to a post and pierced My body with
various arms.
- They struck Me with stones and burnt Me with
blazing embers and torches.
- They pierced Me with awls; sharp spears tore
My skin, flesh and arteries out of My body.
- They tied Me to a post and made Me stand barefoot
on an incandescent metal sheet.
- They crowned Me with an iron crown and wrapped
My eyes with the dirtiest possible rags.
- They made Me sit on a chair covered with sharp
pointed nails, causing deep wounds in My body.
- They poured on My wounds liquid lead and resin
and, after this torture, they pressed Me on the
nailed chair so that the nails went deeper and
deeper into My flesh.
- For shame and affliction, they drove needles
into the holes of My uprooted beard. They tied
my hands behind My back and led Me walking out
of prison with strikes and blows.
- They threw Me upon a cross and attached Me so
tightly that I could hardly breathe anymore.
- They threw at My head as I lay on the earth,
and they stepped on Me, hurting My breast. Then,
taking a thorn from My crown, they drove it into
My tongue.
- They poured into My mouth the most immodest
excretions, as they uttered the most infamous expressions
about Me.
Then, Jesus added,
"My daughter, I desire that you let everybody
know the Fifteen Secret Tortures in order that
everyone of them be honored."
"Anyone who daily offers Me, with love, one
of these sufferings and says with fervor the following
prayer, will be rewarded with eternal glory on
the day of judgment."
~ P R A Y E R ~
My Lord and My God, it is my unchangeable will to
honor you in these Fifteen Secret Torments when You
shed Your Precious Blood; as many times as there
are grains of sand around the seas, as fruit in the
orchards, as leaves on the trees, as flowers in the
gardens, as stars in the sky, as angels in Heaven,
as creatures on earth. So many thousands of times
may you be glorified, praised and honored, O Most
love-worthy Lord Jesus Christ - Your Holiest Heart,
Your Precious Blood, Your Divine Sacrifice for mankind,
the Holiest Sacrament of the altar, the Most Holy
Virgin Mary, the nine glorious choirs of Angels and
the Blessed Phalanx of the Saints, from myself and
everyone, now and forever, and in the eternal ages.
In like manner, I desire, my dear Jesus, to give
You thanksgiving, to serve you, to repair and atone
for all my ignominies, and to offer You my soul and
body as Your possession forever. Likewise, I regret
all my sins and beg Your pardon, O my Lord and my
God. And I offer You all the merits of Jesus Christ
to repair everything, to obtain a happy dying-hour
and the deliverance of the souls from Purgatory.
This prayer I desire to renew at each hour until
my death, O lovable Jesus. Sweet Savior, fortify
my resolution and permit not that neither wretched
men nor Satan destroy it.
Amen. |
There is also another devotion available for us. One that helps us meditate more concretely on
His sufferings:
Private revelation to St. Bridget of Sweden indicated
that all the wounds Our Lord suffered added up to
5,480. She began to pray 15 prayers each day in honor
of each of these wounds, their total after a year
being 5,475. These Fifteen Prayers of St. Bridget
of Sweden are still prayed today.
Likewise, in Southern Germany, it became the practice
to pray 15 Our Fathers a day in honor of Christ's Wounds so that by the end of a year, 5,475 Paters
[or Our Fathers] were prayed.
The five main wounds He suffered, though — the
wound in each Foot, the wound in each Hand, and the
wound in His side caused by St. Longinus's lance
— are symbolic of all the wounds and special
devotion to them arose very early on.
St. John the Divine is said to have appeared to Pope Boniface II (d. A.D. 532) and revealed a special
Mass — the Golden Mass — in
honor of Christ's Five Wounds. It is the effect of
these Five Wounds that are most often
produced in the bodies of the men and women who imitate
the Lord best — the stigmatics. St. Francis
was the first of these. Consequentially, his spiritual
daughter, St. Clare, developed a strong devotion
to the Five Wounds, as did the Benedictine,
St. Gertrude the Great, and others. 
Honor is shown to these Sacred Wounds in many small
ways —
from:
- the 5 grains of incense inserted into the Paschal
Candle
- to the custom of dedicating each Pater
[or Our Father] said in
the body of the Dominican Rosary to one of the
Five Wounds.
They are symbolized in art by the Jerusalem Cross,
5 circles on a Cross, 5 roses, and the 5-pointed
star, and they are seen as symbolized by many things
in nature — from:
- the stamens of the Passion Flower (right)
- the 5 seeds found in the almost perfect 5-pointed
star in a cross-sectioned apple
- to the Sand Dollar.
There are special prayers to honor them, too.
In addition to the The Friends of the Poor Souls blog which provided the Fifteen Prayers of St. Bridget of Sweden, we also have our own AskACatholic.com—related web site dedicated to the Holy Souls. Download our free Purgatory Prayer Program (zip file) if you are interested
in starting a Purgatory Prayer Program in your neighborhood. Each zip file (in seven different languages) have the basic prayers [in MS Word format] for starting a Purgatory prayer program.
It's a nice way to socialize among Catholic friends
on a regular basis. I belonged to a monthly prayer
meeting for years. Hope this helps,
Mike
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