Jesus asks us to honor His Holy Face with prayers and reparation to make amends for the blasphemies of so many people taking His name in vain, putting false gods before Him as in atheism and communism and not keeping Sundays holy. He asks for us to live this devotion and share it with others. Jesus offers many promises to those who honor His face.
Learn it, Pray it, Live It, and Share It!
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Learn it, Pray it, Live It, and Share It!
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First Three Commandments
When seeking His face, we seek to make amends for the sins against the first three commandments:
Historical Timeline
Early Beginnings - Veil and Shroud
When seeking His face, we seek to make amends for the sins against the first three commandments:
- I am the Lord Your God you shall not have strange gods before me.
- You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
- Remember to keep holy the Lord’s day.
Historical Timeline
Early Beginnings - Veil and Shroud
- 33 AD: The veneration of the Holy Face of Jesus originates with St. Veronica, who offers her veil to wipe the blood and sweat from Christ’s face as he carries the cross. Jesus leaves an impression of his Holy Face on the veil.
- 33 AD: Jesus' full body "photographic" image is left on His burial shroud found by His Apostles after His resurrection - This relic is currently stored and venerated in Turin, Italy.
- 1843: Sr. Marie de Saint Peter, a Carmelite nun in Tours, France, receives messages from Our Lord calling for devotion to His Holy Face. He tells her, “I seek Veronicas to wipe and honor My Divine Face which has few adorers.”
- 1848: Sr. Marie de Saint Pierre dies, leaving behind her revelations and prayers for devotion to the Holy Face. Specifically Venerable Leo Dupont leads the charge for this devotion and helps spread it throughout France.
- 1849: Veronica's Veil miraculously reveals detailed image - on first page of this website - while being displayed in the Vatican - prompting them to reproduce artist renditions touched to the true cross, the original veil and the sword of Longinus and send around the world for veneration. Dupont displays one and over 6,000 miracles occur in his home in Tours.
- 1885: Pope Leo XIII establishes an Arch confraternity of the Holy Face, with the first members including the family of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face).
- 1890: Blessed Maria Pierina de Micheli receives more revelations from Our Lord about devotion to His Holy Face, emphasizing the importance of reparation for offenses against the first three commandments.
- 1958: Pope Pius XII approves the devotion and medal of the Holy Face, with the image of the Shroud of Turin on one side and the sacred host on the other.
- St Padre Pio would give away the Holy Face medals saying, "This is your ticket to heaven!"
- The devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus continues to grow, with many individuals and communities around the world practicing this devotion as a means of reparation and adoration. Will you share His Holy Face?
Promises Jesus gave Sr Marie for honoring His Holy Face
Promises: https://catholicarrows.com/promises-from-the-holy-face/
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 on earth contemplate the wounds of My Face, shall in Heaven behold it radiant with glory.
6. Those who by words, prayers and writings defend My cause in the Work of Reparation, especially My priests, I will defend before My Father, and will give them My Kingdom.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. I will defend them, I will preserve them, and I assure them of Final Perseverance.
