Within your wounds, hide me

[CyrilSebastian]

In Anima Christi it states:
Good Jesus, hear me. Within your wounds, hide me.

Please explain: Within your wounds, hide me.

 

[Corki]

I love that line in the Anima Christi

I think it just means that we can find refuge from evil through the power of Christ’s passion.

 

[Hawkmaid]

I love that line in the Anima Christi

I think it just means that we can find refuge from evil through the power of Christ’s passion.

First, love your profile pic. Second, yes, I think that’s about right.
Jesus suffered for us, and bore grievous wounds for it (specifically those on His shoulder and His side). We’re asking Him to “hide” us in His mercy and love, shown through what He went through (eg those injuries). “By Your pain and sacrifice, keep us from evil”, if you will.

 

[Lily_Bernans]

I love that line in the Anima Christi

I think it just means that we can find refuge from evil through the power of Christ’s passion.

I love that line, too. It’s beautiful.

 

[Boy_Wonder]

In Anima Christi it states:
Good Jesus, hear me. Within your wounds, hide me.

Please explain: Within your wounds, hide me.

Christ’s passion is an immense source of grace. The traditional explanation of this petition in the Anima Christi is that we’re beseeching the protection of his grace.

 

[NeedImprovement]

This part of the Anima Christi is mysterious as well as moving and it’s meaning varies significantly according to individual interpretation.

Several examples:

Journey to Wisdom ; Within Your Wounds Hide Me

Fix the Family ; Citabelles ; Within Thy Wounds Hide Me

My personal limited opinion would be that if we are considering this in light of an interpretation along the lines of a “refuge from evil” , it would refer more to any personal evil inclinations we might struggle with as opposed to the devil and his minions - since in another part of the prayer , we already beg our Blessed Lord :

From the malicious enemy defend me.

If the prophet Isaiah says [53:5]-

But he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins, Upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his wounds we were healed

Then a logical question that might ensue would be: Healed from what exactly ? And the answer once again, would seem to fall along the lines of personal sin.

Hawkmaid’s interpretation that We’re asking Him to “hide” us in His mercy and love, reminds me of the Divine Mercy. On day 8 of the Novena to the Divine Mercy, one of the prayers asks God the Father to:

Manifest Your mercy to the souls who are under Your just scrutiny. Look upon them in no other way but only through the Wounds of Jesus, Your dearly beloved Son; for we firmly believe that there is no limit to Your goodness and compassion. Amen.

EWTN ; Divine Mercy Novena

Being “hidden” in His Mercy here, could well mean being exempted from the brunt of what justice says we deserve.

A most powerful and beautiful prayer, the Anima Christi.

 

[TheDoctor]

Yeah, good line. Poetry, really.

Who wrote it, who’s the writer?.

EWTN dates it from the 14th century and the writer seems to be lost within the tradition of the Church. I believe it was at one time attributed to St. Ignatius of Loyola as he included it in his spiritual exercises however I don’t think it is attributed to him any longer.

 

[Speak_The_Truth]

youtube.com/watch?v=LQCYzZckFCE

Watch this video. Below are 3 beliefs that go totally against what the bible teaches.

• They Believe you can confess your sins to a priest who can forgive you
• The Roman catholic church idolizes Mary, and many of the other saints
• They Believe in purgatory, despite it being mentioned NO WHERE in the bible.

Jesus Christ is the only one who can forgive you of your sins, no man has the power to for-give you

It says in the bible over and over again you shall have no idols before the lord your god. Did Mary die on the cross for our sins? did any saint die on the cross for our sins?

Jesus says in his own word numerous times that Hell is eternal, and that heaven is eternal also.

Please read the description of the video no how to be saved. Don’t take my word for it read what the KJV Bible actually teaches.