Chaplet of the Five Wounds

I don't know how many people know about this chaplet, but I thought it was a good chaplet for Lent. You can say it on regular rosary beads even though you won't use every bead.

Chaplet of the Five Wounds of Jesus

This chaplet, approved by the Holy See August 11, 1823 (some sources say this chaplet was first approved by a decree of Pius VII dated January 22, 1822), consists of five groups of five beads -- each group representing one of the Five Wounds. The first group of beads honors the Wound on His left foot; the second, the Wound on His right foot; the third, the Wound on His left Hand; the fourth, the wound on His right Hand; and the fifth, the Wound in His Side.

While meditating on the appropriate Wound at each group, one Gloria (Glory Be) is said on each bead, and between the groups, an Ave (Hail Mary) is said in honor of Mary's sorrows. Here is a more detailed description of the chaplet:

How to pray the Chaplet of the Five Wounds

The Chaplet of the Five Wounds consists of 5 groups of 5 beads each. For each bead, pray one Glory Be... and one Hail Mary for the Blessed Virgin.

On each group of five beads, meditate on one of the Five wounds of Our Lord.

On the large beads pray,

"Eternal Father,

I offer Thee the Wounds

of Our Lord Jesus Christ

to heal the wounds of our souls.

Amen."

On the small beads pray,

"My Jesus,

pardon and mercy

through the merits of Thy Sacred Wounds.

Amen."

Meditate first on the Wound in the left foot of Our Lord,

then the Wound in the right foot,

the left hand,

the right hand,

and finally the Wound in the Sacred side of Jesus.