How could we expect God to be consumed with anything less than His own perfect, holy being? For God to be consumed with anything else would be idolatrous. It would be exalting the creature above the Creator. God’s goal is to exalt Himself and His own glory. He intends to magnify His great name. “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever” (Rom. 11:36).
Edward Welch

Holy Face Of Jesus

Holy Face Of Jesus

HOLY FACE OF JESUS

BASIC R.C. BELIEF From THE MEDAL AND THE HOLY FACE, The Holy Face Association [once sent] a religious medal which has an interesting history.

Sister Pierina was a Roman Catholic nun who died in 1945. During her lifetime, she was repeatedly urged by Mary and Jesus to spread the devotion to the “Holy Face”, in reparation for the many insults Jesus suffered in His Passion, as well as the ways in which it is now being dishonored in the Blessed Sacrament by neglect, sacrileges and profanations.

Sister Pierina was given a medal which on one side bore a replica of the Holy Shroud, with an inscription in Latin that, translated, reads “May, O Lord, the light of Thy countenance shine upon us.”

After great difficulty, Sister Pierina obtained permission to have the medal cast. The expense for this was met when she found on her desk an envelope containing the exact amount of money that was needed. The devil is supposed to have expressed his rage at this by burning pictures of the Sacred Face, and beating Sister Pierina savagely.

The first medal to the Holy Face was offered to Pius XII, and now it has spread over the world. It is said that no prisoner of war wearing this badge of salvation has ever been executed. Jesus also is supposed to have requested that a special feast be instituted to honor His Holy Face on Shrove Tuesday.

From CATHOLIC LEAFLET APOSTOLATE… With ecclesiastical approval. “The promises of Our Lord to Sr. Marie of St. Peter, Discalced Carmelite Nun. “1. By My Holy Face you shall work miracles. “2. By My Face you will obtain the conversion of many sinners. “3. Nothing that you ask in making this offering will be refused to you. “4. If you knew how pleasing the sight of My Face is to My Father. “5. In the Kingdom of Heaven you will obtain all you desire with the precious coin of My Face. “6. Our Lord has promised me that He will imnprint His divine likeness in the souls of those who honor His most Holy Countenance. “7. All those who honor My Holy Face in a spirit of reparation, will in so doing perform the office of the pious Veronica. “8. According to the care you take in making reeparation to My Face,

disfigured by blasphemies, so will I take care of yours which has been disfigured by sin. I will reprint therein my image and render it as beautiful as it was on leaving the Baptismal Font.

“9. Our Lord has promised me that all who defend His cause. . . He will purify their soul be effacing all the blots of sin and will restore to them their primitive beauty.”