During Our Lord’s Passion, His Face was ravaged by the blows and spit of the guards, soldiers, and crowds.
Today, every blasphemy is a spiritual injury to His Holy Face.
In the mid-19th century, Our Lord appeared to a Carmelite nun and spoke to her of the sins—in particular, the sins of blasphemy, atheism, communism, and profanation of Sundays, especially by Christians—which continually wound Him. He told her that His great mercy holds back His justice from immediately punishing those who offend Him in this way, and requested that devotion to His Holy Face be promulgated.
The devotion was accompanied by the prayer known as “the Golden Arrow,” and would strike Our Lord’s Heart with welcome veneration and reparation. Those devoted to the Holy Face would console Our Lord and repair the injuries done to His Face.
The Carmelite sister who received these apparitions died very young, but her efforts to promote the devotion were carried on by a zealous and holy Frenchman: M. Leo Dupont. M. Dupont kept an image of the Holy Face in his house, and hundreds of miracles were wrought there through this devotion.
Finally, Pope Leo XIII established the Archconfraternity of the Holy Face, as Our Lord had requested, in 1885. The feast of the Holy Face was later set on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.
Now, more than ever, we need the devotion of the Holy Face to repair the daily, habitual, incessant offenses dealt to Our Lord by our society. The Secret of the Holy Face: The Devotion Destined to Save Society reveals just how important and powerful this devotion is, how it ties back to the dawn of the Church, and how Our Lord longs to be consoled by the contemplation of His Face. Get your copy today!
