"See how much I suffer. I am
understood by so few. What ingratitude on the part of those who say that
they love Me! I have given My heart as a sensible object
of My great love for man, and I give My Face as a sensible object of My
sorrow for the sins of man. I desire that it be honored by a special
feast on Shrove Tuesday. The feast will be preceded by a novena, during
which the faithful make reparation with Me, uniting themselves with My
sorrow." ~ Jesus to Blessed Maria Pierina de Micheli in the mid 1900'sThe Novena:
http://www.holyface.org.uk/content/holyfacenovena.htm
Some history: The story of Veronica's Veil; the details of the story may surprise you. In what ways do you resemble her?
Veronica's Compassion and the Beginning of the Devotion to the Holy Face
During the 1840’s in Tours, France, our Lord appeared to a young Carmelite nun named Sr. Mary of St. Peter and revealed to her the powerful devotion to be established worldwide - the Devotion to His Holy Face. This devotion is considered to have begun when Veronica wiped the Sacred Face of Jesus during His Passion, as He traveled along the Way of Sacrificial Love.
This Devotion and specific work of Reparation was officially given to mankind, and requested of us, by our Lord beginning in the 1800's. Jesus first communicated with a French Carmelite nun named Mother Adelaide, who died in 1843. Twenty-six days after she entered eternal life on July 31st, the Lord spoke to Sr. Mary of St. Peter about His Work of Reparation for the first time.
"Never question God's dealings with you. Respect God's work in your soul with silence."
~ Servant of God, Father John A. Hardon, S.J.
The purpose of the Work is to make reparation for blasphemy (offending the honor due the Holy Name of God) and profanation of Sundays by Christians, a divine tool to combat sin and also an instrument for individuals to appeal to God in prayer, by adoring His Holy Face and His Holy Name.
Our Lord gave Sr. Mary the powerful “Golden Arrow” prayer that “shoots directly into the Heart of God” to heal the wound inflicted on the Heart of God by the malice of sinners.
Prayer of Reparation in Praise of the Holy Name of God, Entitled “THE GOLDEN ARROW”
MAY THE MOST HOLY, MOST SACRED, MOST ADORABLE, MOST INCOMPREHENSIBLE AND UNUTTERABLE NAME OF GOD BE ALWAYS PRAISED, BLESSED, LOVED, ADORED AND GLORIFIED, IN HEAVEN, ON EARTH AND UNDER THE EARTH, BY ALL THE CREATURES OF GOD, AND BY THE SACRED HEART OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, IN THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR. Amen.
There are nine promises connected with this devotion, which is known to have helped St. Therese of Lisieux attain great sanctity:
1. By offering My Face to My Eternal Father, nothing will be refused, and the conversion of many sinners will be obtained.
2. By My Holy Face, they will work wonders, appease the anger of God and draw down mercy on sinners.
3. All those who honor My Face in a spirit of reparation will by so doing perform the office of the pious Veronica.
4. According to the care they take in making reparation to My Face disfigured by blasphemers, so will I take care of their souls which have been disfigured by sin. My Face is the Seal of the Divinity, which has the virtue of reproducing in souls the image of God.
5. Those who by words, prayers or writings defend My cause in the Work of Reparation, especially My priests, I will defend before My Father, and will give them My Kingdom. 6. As in a kingdom they can procure all that is desired with a coin stamped with the King's effigy, so in the Kingdom of Heaven they will obtain all they desire with the precious coin of My Holy Face.
7. Those who on earth contemplate the wounds of My Face shall in Heaven behold it radiant with glory.
8. They will receive in their souls a bright and constant irradiation of My Divinity, that by their likeness to My Face they shall shine with particular splendor in Heaven.
9. 1 will defend them, I will preserve them and I assure them of Final Perseverance.
More information on the powerful Devotion to the Holy Face is coming soon!
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DEVOTION TO THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS
"A devotion is not a dogma; it is an act of love. To ask the Church not to have new devotions is to ask a glowing furnace not to dart its flames heavenward; it is to ask a heart that loves to hide within itself every manifestation of tenderness, never to grow young again by a new expression of the unchangeable love that forms the depths of its soul."
~ The Life of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque by Most Rev. Emile Bougaud, D.D., p. 299
Please share this information with others to help spread the Devotion to the Holy Face and the Work of Reparation so greatly needed in our time. God is at work in you! THANK YOU.
Images taken at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Slovak Catholic Church,
Sterling Heights, Michigan, U.S.A.
in the Archdiocese of Detroit.
