Feast of Santissimo Crocifisso di Ciminna

Domine, miserere nobis

In Ciminna (PA), Sicily, the first Sunday of May is the Festa del SS. Crocifisso Padre di Grazia, or Feast of the Crucified Father of Grace. In celebration, I'm posting the prayer Together We Call, reprinted from the Societá SS. Crocifisso San Giovanni Bosco di Cimminna of Chicago website. The accompanying photo was taken at the 2015 Festa del Santissimo Crocifisso di Ciminna at St. Athanasius Church in Brooklyn, New York. Evviva Gesù!

Together We Call

Father, your arms are open to everyone. Give us your blessing and grace that we as sinners ask for. We all call out — Viva SS. Crocifisso! Father, you are the healer of the sick. You make the blind see, the deaf hear and the mute speak. We call you — Father of Grace. Forgive our sins and with all our hearts we say — Viva SS. Crocifisso!