[Sca-cooks] Manus Christi

[Lonnie D. Harvel]

Recipe:
http://www.harvestfields.ca/CookBooks/003/07/01/095.htm

Also in here:
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/Candying-art.html

At least one version of the prayer begins "Ave dextera manus christi 
perforata plaga tristi..." and recounts the five wounds of Christ at the 
Crucifixion. There are many other prayers that do so as well.

It is worth knowing and reciting because "to him who each day will read 
this prayer and consider the torments of our Lord Jesus Christ will Pope 
Innocentius give as many days absolution as there are grains of sand on 
the bottom of the ocean...".

The Manus Christi is also an award of service in the Catholic Church.

Sorry, no time now to dig out the books. The vision of Pope Gregory the 
Great in the 7th century is probably the best starting point for the 
adoration of The Five Sacred Wounds.