As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.
"I firmly wish that my face reflecting the intimate pains of my
soul, the suffering and love of my heart, be more honored! Whoever gazes upon
me already consoles me." (Our Lord Jesus Christ to Sister Pierina)
O Most Holy and
Blessed Trinity, through the intercession of Holy Mary, whose soul was pierced
through by a sword of sorrow at the sight of the passion of her Divine Son, we
ask your help in making a perfect Novena of reparation with Jesus, united with
all His sorrows, love and total abandonment.
We now implore all the Angels and Saints to intercede for us as we pray this Holy Novena to the Most Holy Face of Jesus and for the glory of the most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
(Start novena)
"All those who, attracted by my love, and venerating my countenance, shall receive, by virtue of my humanity, a brilliant and vivid impression of my divinity. This splendor shall enlighten the depths of their souls, so that in eternal glory the celestial court shall marvel at the marked likeness of their features with my divine countenance." (Our Lord Jesus Christ to St. Gertrude)
Psalm 51, 3-4.
Have mercy on me, O God in your goodness, in your great tenderness wipe away my faults; wash me clean of my guilt, purify me from my sin.
O most Holy Face of Jesus, look with tenderness on us who are sinners. You are a merciful God, full of love and compassion. Keep us pure of heart, so that we may see Thee always. Mary, our Mother, intercede for us; Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Through the merits of your precious blood and your Holy Face, O Jesus, grant us our petition, Pardon and Mercy.
Prayer to Our Almighty Father
Almighty Father, come into our hearts, and so fill us with your love that forsaking all evil desires, we may embrace you, our only good. Show us, O Lord our God, what you are to us. Say to our souls, I am your salvation, speak so that we may hear. Our hearts are before you; open our ears; let us hasten after your voice. Hide not your Face from us, we beseech you, O Lord. Open our hearts so that you may enter in. Repair the ruined mansions, that you may dwell therein. Hear us, O Heavenly Father, for the sake of your only Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever Amen. (St. Augustine)
Today is the second anniversary of Diane Havermale, mother of seven, I proposed to do thirty masses over the next 30 days for Diane Havermale if anyone (catholic) is interested in going to Mass and offering a share in your communion for her soul please let me know the number you will do as I may not be able to go every day for the next 30 days.
This
day I will begin to put a fear and
dread of you into the peoples everywhere under heaven, so that at the mention
of your name they will quake and tremble before you.
This
verse sounds a bit like in the beginning with Adam and Eve when God puts the
fear of man into all creatures. It appears that men that are devoid of any
connection with God who are nothing more than mere animals have a deathly fear
of God’s own. These animals may see God’s people as clinging to their guns and
their Bibles but in truth they have a fear of God’s people. Often this fear is
express in stubbornness in mind, obstructionism and obstinacy
in heart.
Sexagesima
Sexagesima
literally means "sixtieth," though it only falls 56 days before
Easter. During these weeks contemplate the ways you can build up your fear of
the Lord remembering that fear of the Lord is really a deep abiding love for
God.
Brothers and sisters: Strive eagerly for
the greatest spiritual gifts. But I shall show you a still more excellent way.
If I speak in human and angelic tongues, but do not have love, I am a
resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and
comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move
mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own,
and if I hand my body over so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain
nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, it is not pompous,
It is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is
not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over
wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. If there are
prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if
knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially and we prophesy
partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a
child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I
became a man, I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as
in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall
know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but
the greatest of these is love. (1 Cor. 12:31-13:13)
To
prepare ourselves for union with God; I recommend we start a Novena to the Holy
Face of Christ. I try to do this yearly in preparation for lent.
The Novena will end on Tuesday
before Ash Wednesday which is the day that Judas went to the Sanhedrin to
betray Christ.
NOVENA TO THE HOLY FACE
[1]The Golden Arrow
(as dictated by Our Lord to Sister Marie of St. Peter)
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God be forever 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.
(as dictated by Our Lord to Sister Marie of St. Peter)
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God be forever 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.
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the
adorable Face of Thy Beloved Son for the honor and glory of Thy Name, for the
conversion of sinners and the salvation of the dying. Amen.
1.
All those who honor My Face in a spirit of reparation will by so doing
perform the office of the pious Veronica. 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.
2.
Those who by words, prayers or writing defend My cause in this Work of
Reparation I will defend before My Father, and will give them My Kingdom.
3.
By offering My Face to My Eternal Father, nothing will be refused, and
the conversion of many sinners will be obtained.
4.
By My Holy Face, they will work wonders, appease the anger of God, and
draw down mercy on sinners.
5.
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.
6.
Those who on earth contemplate the wounds of My Face shall in Heaven
behold it radiant with glory.
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.
Novena in Honor of
the Most Holy Face of Jesus
the Most Holy Face of Jesus
DAILY
PREPARATORY PRAYER
We now implore all the Angels and Saints to intercede for us as we pray this Holy Novena to the Most Holy Face of Jesus and for the glory of the most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
(Start novena)
"All those who, attracted by my love, and venerating my countenance, shall receive, by virtue of my humanity, a brilliant and vivid impression of my divinity. This splendor shall enlighten the depths of their souls, so that in eternal glory the celestial court shall marvel at the marked likeness of their features with my divine countenance." (Our Lord Jesus Christ to St. Gertrude)
First Day
(Console
Holy Face and recite Daily Preparatory Prayer)
Have mercy on me, O God in your goodness, in your great tenderness wipe away my faults; wash me clean of my guilt, purify me from my sin.
O most Holy Face of Jesus, look with tenderness on us who are sinners. You are a merciful God, full of love and compassion. Keep us pure of heart, so that we may see Thee always. Mary, our Mother, intercede for us; Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Through the merits of your precious blood and your Holy Face, O Jesus, grant us our petition, Pardon and Mercy.
Prayer to Our Almighty Father
Almighty Father, come into our hearts, and so fill us with your love that forsaking all evil desires, we may embrace you, our only good. Show us, O Lord our God, what you are to us. Say to our souls, I am your salvation, speak so that we may hear. Our hearts are before you; open our ears; let us hasten after your voice. Hide not your Face from us, we beseech you, O Lord. Open our hearts so that you may enter in. Repair the ruined mansions, that you may dwell therein. Hear us, O Heavenly Father, for the sake of your only Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever Amen. (St. Augustine)
Pray one (1) Our Father, (3) Hail
Mary’s, (1) Glory Be,
O Bleeding Face, O Face Divine, be every adoration Thine. (Three times)[3]
O Bleeding Face, O Face Divine, be every adoration Thine. (Three times)[3]
Pray for the dead
Today is the second anniversary of Diane Havermale, mother of seven, I proposed to do thirty masses over the next 30 days for Diane Havermale if anyone (catholic) is interested in going to Mass and offering a share in your communion for her soul please let me know the number you will do as I may not be able to go every day for the next 30 days.
Relief of the Holy Souls— Holy Mass— Father Gerard— The Thirty Masses of St. Gregory. LET us now consider the supernatural effects of a different kind, but which prove no less clearly the efficacy of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for the departed. We find them in the Memoirs of Father Gerard, an English Jesuit and Confessor of the Faith during the persecutions in England in the sixteenth century. After relating how he had received the abjuration of a Protestant gentleman, married to one of his cousins, Father Gerard adds, “This conversion led to another under the most extraordinary circumstances. My new convert went to see one of his friends who was dangerously ill. This was an upright man, detained in heresy more by illusion than by any other motive. The visitor urgently exhorted him to be converted, and to think of his soul; and obtained from him the promise that he would make his Confession. He instructed him in everything, taught him how to excite himself to contrition for his sins, and went to seek for a priest. He had great difficulty in finding one, and in the meantime the sick person died. When about to expire, the poor dying man asked frequently whether his friend had not yet returned with the physician whom he had promised to bring; it was thus he called the Catholic priest. “What followed showed that God had accepted the good will of the deceased. The nights following his death, his wife, a Protestant, saw a light moving in her room, and which came even within the curtains of her bed. Being afraid, she desired one of her servant maids to sleep in her room; but the latter saw nothing, although the light continued to be visible to the eyes of her mistress. The poor lady sent for the friend whose return her husband had awaited with so much anxiety, related to him what had happened, and asked what was to be done. “This friend before giving an answer consulted a Catholic priest. The priest told him that the light was, for the wife of the deceased, a supernatural sign by which God invited her to return to the True Faith. The lady was deeply impressed by these words; she opened her heart to grace, and in her turn was converted. “Once a Catholic, she had Mass celebrated in her chamber for some time; but the light always returned. The priest considering these circumstances before God, thought that the deceased, though saved by his repentance accompanied by the desire of Confession, was in Purgatory, and stood in need of prayers. He advised the lady to have Mass said for him during thirty days, according to an ancient custom of English Catholics. The good widow followed this advice, and on the thirtieth day, instead of one light, saw three, two of which seemed to support another. The three lights hovered over her bed, then rose heavenward, never more to return. These three lights appear to have signified the three conversions, and the efficacy of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to open Heaven to the departed souls.” The thirty Masses which were said for thirty consecutive days is not an English custom only, as it is called by Father Gerard, it is also widely spread in Italy and other Christian countries. These Masses are called the Thirty Masses of St. Gregory, because the pious custom seems to trace its origin back to this great Pope. It is thus related in his Dialogues (Book 4, chap. 40): A Religious, named Justus, had received and kept for himself three gold pieces. This was a grievous fault against his vow of poverty. He was discovered and excommunicated. This salutary penalty made him enter into himself, and some time afterwards he died in true sentiments of repentance. Nevertheless, St. Gregory, in order to inspire the brethren with a lively horror of the sin of avarice in a Religious, did not withdraw the sentence of excommunication: Justus was buried apart from the other monks, and the three pieces of money were thrown into the grave, whilst the Religious repeated all together the words of St. Peter to Simon the Magician, Pecunia tua tecum sit in perditionem—“ Keep thy money to perish with thee.” Some time afterwards, the holy Abbot, judging that the scandal was sufficiently repaired, and moved with compassion for the soul of Justus, called the Procurator and said to him sorrowfully, “Ever since the moment of his death, our brother has been tortured in the flames of Purgatory; we must through charity make an effort to deliver him. Go, then, and take care that from this time forward the Holy Sacrifice be offered for thirty days; let not one morning pass without the Victim of Salvation being offered up for his release.” The Procurator obeyed punctually. The thirty Masses were celebrated in the course of thirty days. When the thirtieth day arrived and the thirtieth Mass was ended, the deceased appeared to a brother named Copiosus, saying, “Bless God, my dear brother, today I am delivered and admitted into the society of the saints.” Since that time the pious custom of celebrating thirty Masses for the dead has been established.
Schouppe S.J., Rev. Fr. F. X.. Purgatory Explained (with Supplemental Reading: What Will Hell Be Like?) [Illustrated] (Kindle Location 2769). TAN Books. Kindle Edition.
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