VISITA IGLESIA

Visiting different Churches every Maundy

Thursday is a sacrifice and solemn prayer and not
just for leisure.

You can visit as many churches as you

want or you can follow the old tradition of
visiting only seven churches.

This is not a time to do Stations of the

Cross but an adoration and visit to the Blessed
Sacrament in the repository

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Prayer Guide
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JOY IN THE SPIRIT OF THE
VISITA IGLESIA
LORD PRAYER GROUP
(Visit to the Blessed Sacrament)
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 FIRST CHURCH
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Lord Jesus, You said “For where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of
them.” Please look upon Your servants who are now
gathered and believe that You are present in the Most
Blessed Sacrament in the altar.
As we contemplate on Your last words to Your
Apostles on the eve of Your Passion, may this open up our
hearts to desire a deeper relationship with You, to love
and serve You and one another.
Amen.
John 13:31-35
When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the
Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is
glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and
glorify him at once. Little children, yet a little while I am
with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews,
so now I also say to you, 'Where I am going you cannot
come. A new commandment I give to you, that you love
one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love
one another. By this all people will know that you are my
disciples, if you have love for one another."
Psalm 51:1-6
Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions.
I thank you for your faithfulness and love
Which excel all we ever knew of you
On the day I called, you answered
You increased the strength of my soul
All earth’s kings shall thank you
When they hear the words of your mouth
They shall sing of the Lord’s ways
How great is the glory of the Lord!
You stretch out your hand and save me
Your hand will do all things for me
Your love, O Lord, is eternal
Discard not the work of your hand.
Our Father . . .
Hail Mary . . .
Glory to the Father . . .
Anima Christi
Soul of Christ, sanctify me.
Body of Christ, save me.
Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
O good Jesus, hear me.
Within your wounds conceal me.
Do not permit me to be parted from you.
From the evil foe protect me.
At the hour of my death call me.
And bid me come to you,
to praise you with all your saints
for ever and ever.
Amen.
 SEVENTH CHURCH
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Lord Jesus, You said “For where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of
them.” Please look upon Your servants who are now
gathered and believe that You are present in the Most
Blessed Sacrament in the altar.
As we contemplate on Your last words to Your
Apostles on the eve of Your Passion, may this open up
our hearts to desire a deeper relationship with You, to
love and serve You and one another.
Amen.
John 17:24-26
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have
given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory
that you have given me because you loved me before the
foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though
the world does not know you, I know you, and these
know that you have sent me. I made known to them your
name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love
with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in
them."
Psalm 137:1-5, 7-8
I thank you, Lord, with all my heart
You have heard the words of my mouth
Before the angels I will bless you
I will adore before your holy temple.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin!
For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,
and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Our Father . . .
Hail Mary . . .
Glory to the Father . . .
Anima Christi
Soul of Christ, sanctify me.
Body of Christ, save me.
Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
O good Jesus, hear me.
Within your wounds conceal me.
Do not permit me to be parted from you.
From the evil foe protect me.
At the hour of my death call me.
And bid me come to you,
to praise you with all your saints
for ever and ever.
Amen.
 SECOND CHURCH

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Lord Jesus, You said “For where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of
them.” Please look upon Your servants who are now gathered
and believe that You are present in the Most Blessed
Sacrament in the altar.
As we contemplate on Your last words to Your
Apostles on the eve of Your Passion, may this open up our
hearts to desire a deeper relationship with You, to love and
serve You and one another.
Amen.
Psalm 4:1-3
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!
You have given me relief when I was in distress.
Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame?
How long will you love vain words and seek after lies?
But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for
himself;
the LORD hears when I call to him.
Our Father . . .
Hail Mary . . .
Glory to the Father . . .

John 14:27-31
Anima Christi
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not
as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be Soul of Christ, sanctify me.
troubled, neither let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, Body of Christ, save me.
'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may O good Jesus, hear me.
believe. I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of Within your wounds conceal me.
this world is coming. He has no claim on me, but I do as the Do not permit me to be parted from you.
Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I From the evil foe protect me.
love the Father. Rise, let us go from here. At the hour of my death call me.
And bid me come to you,
to praise you with all your saints
Psalm 51:7-11 for ever and ever.
Amen.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
 SIXTH CHURCH
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Lord Jesus, You said “For where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of
them.” Please look upon Your servants who are now
gathered and believe that You are present in the Most
Blessed Sacrament in the altar.
As we contemplate on Your last words to Your
Apostles on the eve of Your Passion, may this open up
our hearts to desire a deeper relationship with You, to
love and serve You and one another.
Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Our Father . . .
Hail Mary . . .
Glory to the Father . . .

Amen.
Anima Christi

John 17:9-13 Soul of Christ, sanctify me.

Body of Christ, save me.
I am praying for them I am not praying for the Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
world but for those whom you have given me, for they Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
are yours. All of mine are yours, and yours are mine, Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
and I am glorified in them. And I am no longer in the O good Jesus, hear me.
world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you Within your wounds conceal me.
Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have Do not permit me to be parted from you.
given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. From the evil foe protect me.
While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which At the hour of my death call me.
you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of And bid me come to you,
them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the to praise you with all your saints
Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to for ever and ever.
you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may Amen.
have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
 THIRD CHURCH
For they drop trouble upon me,
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the and in anger they bear a grudge against me.
Holy Spirit. My heart is in anguish within me;
the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
Amen.
Fear and trembling come upon me,
Lord Jesus, You said “For where two or three are and horror overwhelms me.
gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of And I say, "Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
them.” Please look upon Your servants who are now gathered
and believe that You are present in the Most Blessed I would fly away and be at rest;
Sacrament in the altar. yes, I would wander far away;
As we contemplate on Your last words to Your I would lodge in the wilderness;
Apostles on the eve of Your Passion, may this open up our
hearts to desire a deeper relationship with You, to love and
serve You and one another. Our Father . . .
Hail Mary . . .
Amen. Glory to the Father . . .

John 15:1-4 Anima Christi

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Soul of Christ, sanctify me.
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and Body of Christ, save me.
every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither O good Jesus, hear me.
can you, unless you abide in me. Within your wounds conceal me.
Do not permit me to be parted from you.
From the evil foe protect me.
Psalm 51:12-17 At the hour of my death call me.
And bid me come to you,
Restore to me the joy of your salvation, to praise you with all your saints
and uphold me with a willing spirit. for ever and ever.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways, Amen.
and sinners will return to you.
 FIFTH CHURCH
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Lord Jesus, You said “For where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of
them.” Please look upon Your servants who are now
gathered and believe that You are present in the Most
Blessed Sacrament in the altar.
As we contemplate on Your last words to Your
Apostles on the eve of Your Passion, may this open up our
hearts to desire a deeper relationship with You, to love
and serve You and one another.
Amen.
Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God,
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Our Father . . .
Hail Mary . . .
Glory to the Father . . .

John 17:5-8
Anima Christi
And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence
with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. Soul of Christ, sanctify me.
"I have manifested your name to the people whom you Body of Christ, save me.
gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
know that everything that you have given me is from you. Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
For I have given them the words that you gave me, and O good Jesus, hear me.
they have received them and have come to know in truth Within your wounds conceal me.
that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent Do not permit me to be parted from you.
me. From the evil foe protect me.
At the hour of my death call me.
Psalm 55:1-7 And bid me come to you,
to praise you with all your saints
Give ear to my prayer, O God, for ever and ever.
and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy! Amen.
Attend to me, and answer me;
I am restless in my complaint and I
moan, because of the noise of the enemy,
because of the oppression of the wicked.
 FOURTH CHURCH Psalm 51:18-19

Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;

build up the walls of Jerusalem;
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of then will you delight in right sacrifices,
the Holy Spirit. in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Amen.

Lord Jesus, You said “For where two or three are

gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of Our Father . . .
them.” Please look upon Your servants who are now Hail Mary . . .
gathered and believe that You are present in the Most Glory to the Father . . .
Blessed Sacrament in the altar.
As we contemplate on Your last words to Your
Apostles on the eve of Your Passion, may this open up
our hearts to desire a deeper relationship with You, to Anima Christi
love and serve You and one another.
Soul of Christ, sanctify me.
Amen. Body of Christ, save me.
Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
John 15:18-20 O good Jesus, hear me.
Within your wounds conceal me.
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me Do not permit me to be parted from you.
before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world From the evil foe protect me.
would love you as its own; but because you are not of the At the hour of my death call me.
world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the And bid me come to you,
world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: A to praise you with all your saints
servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted for ever and ever.
me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, Amen.
they will also keep yours.