PADRE PIO'S REVELATIONS ABOUT THE INFANT OF PRAGUE: CHRISTMAS IS A...
December 1952, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. Katharina TangariKatharina Tangari was a matron of Naples and a spiritual daughter of Padre Pio's. She was an intrepid lady with dark, penetrating eyes and a...
View ArticleLITANY OF THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS
Lord, have mercy.Christ, have mercy.Lord, have mercy. Jesus, hear us.Jesus, graciously hear us.God, the Father of Heaven,have mercy on us.God the Son, Redeemer of the world,have mercy on us.God, the...
View ArticleST HILARY OF POITIERS...
...is my Saint for 2020. He was chosen for me by Jen Fulwiler's Saint's Name Generator. You, too, may have a Saint picked for you to guide you as you begin this new decade. The Saint's Name Generator...
View ArticleHOW ST VINCENT DE PAUL BROUGHT A YOUNG MAN BACK TO THE FAITH
Paris, 1600s. The hook-nosed St Vincent de Paul was at a loss: he had tried his best to convert a young man who was far from the sacraments. The man had very much given himself over to sin. Vincent...
View ArticleO, JESUS, IMPRINT UPON OUR HEARTS ALL THE FEATURES OF THY DIVINE COUNTENANCE
Salutation to the Holy Face in the Blessed SacramentHail O Adorable Face of Jesus, present in the Most Blessed Sacrament, more resplendent than the sun! Hail Thou noble seal of the Divinity, Thou...
View ArticleTHE CONVERSION OF A NARCISSIST
Deep in the heart of Florence, the city that is the jewel of Tuscany, there once was a certain Father Hippolitus. He strove to cultivate the virtue of piety and had a painting executed of Our Lord...
View ArticleSTILL MY OBSTINACY IN EVIL REMAINS
Prayer of St AugustineI appear before Thy Holy Face, O my Savior, laden with my sins and the penalties they have brought upon me. What I suffer is far less than I deserve, for although conscious of...
View ArticleYOUR SOUL MAY BE IMPRINTED WITH JESUS'S DIVINE FACE AS WAS VERONICA'S VEIL
Your soul may become like Veronica's VeilWhen Our Lord Jesus Christ was toured through the teeming streets of Jerusalem on the way to His crucifixion, a mean gang dogged His heels and shouted sneering...
View ArticlePRAISES OF THE HOLY FACE
Blessed be Jesus!Blessed be the Holy Face of Jesus.Blessed be the Holy Face in the majesty and beauty of Its heavenly features.Blessed be the Holy Face through the words which issued from Its Divine...
View ArticleTHE GOLDEN ARROW PRAYER WHICH OUR LORD GAVE SISTER MARY OF ST PETER
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...
View ArticleTHE TRANSFIGURATION OF VERONICA'S VEIL
In the late 1840s the cherubic-faced Pope Pius IX fled the Vatican and went into exile in Naples where he took refuge in the sprawling Castle Gaeta. He had left Rome in a mad hurry and could not...
View ArticleA BRIGHT RAY OF OUR LORD'S DIVINITY MAY BE YOURS FOR ALL ETERNITY
The 13th century Benedictine nun, St Gertrude was afforded the most extraordinary visions from the time she was 25. The finest fruits of her mysticism grew from Gertrude's immersion in her role as...
View ArticleACT OF LOVE TO THE HOLY FACE
Adorable Face of my Jesus, my only love, my light and my life, grant that I may see, know and love Thee alone, that I may live with Thee, of Thee and for Thee. Amen.
View ArticleLORD, SUFFER US NOT TO BE CONTENT WITH MERE COMPASSION
O LORD Jesus! After contemplating Thy features, disfigured by grief; after meditating upon Thy Passion with compunction and love, how can our hearts fail to be inflamed with a holy hatred of sin, which...
View ArticleARE YOU AMONG THE SOULS OUR LORD PROMISED SAINT MECHTILDE WOULD NEVER BE...
St Mechtilde was a German Benedictine nun who lived in a cloistered convent in the latter part of the 1200s. She lived a hidden life, her body wrapped in the folds of her blackest-of-black habit, but...
View ArticleMAY THE LORD BLESS THEE AND KEEP THEE
“May the Lord bless thee and keep thee; May He make His Face shine upon thee and be merciful to thee; may He turn His Countenance toward thee and give thee His Peace!” (Num. 6:22-27)This is the...
View ArticleSt Thérèse of Lisieux prayer to the Holy Face
O Jesus, who in Thy bitter Passion didst become “the reproach of men, the Man of Sorrows,” I worship Thy Divine Face whereon there once did shine the beauty and sweetness of the Godhead; but now it...
View ArticleO SACRED HEAD SURROUNDED
O Sacred Head surrounded By crown of piercing thorn! O bleeding Head so wounded, Reviled and put to scorn! Death's pallid hue comes o'er Thee, The glow of life decays, Yet angel hosts adore Thee, And...
View ArticleGRANT US THAT INTERIOR DISPOSITION OF NEVER REFUSING AT ANY TIME TO DO WHAT...
O Lord Jesus Christ, in presenting ourselves before Thine adorable Face to ask of Thee the graces of which we stand most in need, we beseech Thee above all, to grant us that interior disposition of...
View ArticleMY ONLY LOVE, MY LIGHT AND MY LIFE
Adorable Face of my Jesus, my only love, my light and my life, grant that I may know, love and serve Thee alone, that I may live with Thee, of Thee, by Thee and for Thee. Amen
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