November 1, 2024 • 71 mins
In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Dr. Mary Kloska shares the history of the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus. She tells of the revelations of Sr. Mary of St. Peter and how her revelations deeply impacted St. Therese of Lisieux's family and personal vocation. Dr. Mary also shares other saints who were devoted to the Holy Face of Our Lord and reflects on the various aspects of how the Holy Face of Christ can be an instrument of deliverance, healing and inspiration for all of us.
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Hello, and welcome to the heart of Fiat crucified Love. Tonight,
we are going to talk about the devotion of the
Holy Face of Christ to the Holy Face of Christ.
And this is a beautiful devotion that has been in
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the Church since the beginning. With Jesus, right, he left
his holy face on the veil of Veronika and on
the shroud, on the beautiful cloth on his face. And
the Resurrection, he imprinted his face on the cloth that
he sent with Saint Jude to the king who had
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asked him to come and heal him. And he imprinted
his face on the heart of our lady and made
him her the perfect disciple. And that's the desire of
Christ for each one of us to have us gaze
upon his face, the same way that when people love someone,
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they want a photograph of them. Right, He wants us
to have many images of his face around our home,
to gaze on his face, but not only with the
eyes of our body, but the eyes of our heart.
And through this he will transform us, and he will
make us to come to resemble the face of His love.
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So we're going to talk about all of that this evening.
And I thought we would start with a prayer. And
I hurt my hand this week. I fell on the
sidewalk and I have my right hand all wrapped up.
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My left hand is pretty binged up too, But I tried,
and I think I can play one song. So we're
gonna do that, right, and we'll say a prayer, and
then we'll talk about, you know, these different aspects of
a devotion to the Holy Face and the saints that
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shared this devotion. So in the name of the Father
and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen, Come, Holy Spirit,
fill the hearts of your faithful enkindle in us a
fire of your love. Send forth your spirit, and we
will be recreated. And thou shalt renew the face of
the earth.
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How lovely is your dwelling play, Oh Lord Amighty, my
soul long sandy fan fainds for you. For here my
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heart is said.
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Is fed.
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Within your press, my seeing beneath.
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The sheader of your way.
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Better is one man, your courts.
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Better is one man. Your house bet is one man
your courts and a thousand elsewhere.
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Better is one dan.
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Your courts better is one man. Your house. Better is
one man your.
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Court than a thousand elsewhere than a thousand elsewhere.
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To remember to breathe. One thing I ask, and.
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I will see.
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To see your beauty.
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To find you in for the place your clorydwel One
thing I ask, and I would see.
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To see your beauty.
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To find you in your place, your glory dwelt.
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Bet.
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It is one day in your courts, but is one
man your house.
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That is one man your courts, and a thousand elsewhere.
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That is one man your courts, But is one man
your house.
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That is one man.
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Your courts, and a thousand elsewhere than a thousand elsewhere.
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Amen, aalelujah ni Chabby for not playing guitar munch.
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Oh, Sweet Jesus, we ask you to be with us
as we talk about this beautiful mystery of your holy
holy face. I decided just a few months ago that
I would learn more about this devotion, and the more
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that I read, and it was you know how when
God wants to tap you on the shoulder about something,
he sends you many different ways to get your attention.
And so you know, I'd come across books and then
you know things that the saints wrote or things that
you know corresponded with scripture, or maybe in a in
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a Facebook post, or I would say, like a magazine.
But the only magazines I reader articles my mom cuts
out for me. But it was like from all these
different places came stuff on the devotion to the Holy Face.
So I took some time to really read about it
and to pray about it. And it was on my
heart to have a place in my home where I
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honored the Holy Face of Jesus. And since I was
in high school, I've prayed that prayer to the Holy
Face in reparation for the sin of blasphemy. And it's
in the Pieta book, that little blue prayer book called
the Pieda maybe the most holy most. I have it
written down here, we're going to pray it. I used
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to know it my heart, but I don't anymore. But
I had it. I ordered it on like a big canvas,
and then a bunch of these pictures that I just
put in like a conglomeration here, and I hung it
in my hallway upstairs, along with this beautiful image of
Jesus from the Divine Mercy Image. And this I was
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also given to when I was in high school and
I went to do missionary work in Russia. The Germans
gave us some of these with prayers on the back
to hand out to the people of Russia, and I
kept a few, so I still have one. And I
placed this as a place of honor in my hallway
upstairs for two reasons. One because I wanted the face
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of Christ imprinted on my heart. And I knew that
at the time where that prayer was given to the
world in reparation for the sins of blasphemy, there was
even less blasphemy than there is today. Right hundreds of
years ago there was some, but now it's even more common.
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And I've seen the power in offering reparation. Jesus has
revealed to the saints over time that every time somebody
blasphemes the name of God, it's another wound on his face,
and it's mockery, it's sadistic, and there really isn't anything
funny about it or unimportant. People like to kind of
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pooh pooh away, to demean the importance of or the
significance or the effect that evil really can have on
the world, and especially on innocent people, on the children,
and tonight actually when I'm recording this, it's a beautiful gift.
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It's October thirty first, and there is a lot of
sin in the world and the glorification of evil. And
I know, even priests and Catholics say, oh, it's not
a big deal, but it actually is. Maybe their love
needs to increase a little. But when you really love
someone and you see them mocked, there's really nothing funny
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about it. And the evil that's glorified tonight, and you know,
dressing up as witches and goblins and ghosts and satanic
things and bloody, you know, gory things does two things.
It mocks the passion of Christ and the beauty of
his wounds, and it desensitizes people, and it glorifies evil,
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and it opens a door to let in Satan into
the human heart, which is the place that Christ is
supposed to reign. Right and you think about the children
at Fatimah, who were willing to do major prayer and
sacrifice to help save the world. Would they celebrate something
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that's evil? And the answers no. And I know sometimes
people say, well, you know, Saint carlos Akut is dressed
up once. Well, you know what, when I was little
I did too, and God forbid if anyone ever uses
a picture of me as a child to promote the
evil that goes on today, because my parents didn't know,
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and once they learned, we stopped participating in the evil
of today. And I have very strong feelings on it,
especially being in the exorcism and deliverance ministry. You know,
people say it doesn't affect people, but it does. I've
seen it. I've rubbed elbows with it. I know what
Satan is doing, and so do all the exercis I've
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ever worked with, and there are many, many right, tens
and tens, so say, probably forty different ones, and so
I've you know, the Lord has told me over the
years to really honor his gift of the Cross on
October thirty first, and to honor his crucified love. And
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it's beautiful because I got the copy of my book
today that I wrote on Crucified Love on the very mystery,
so I was able to I felt like he was
kind of winking at me, saying, this is our little
feast day to remember the Cross. And there's a power
in honoring him and his passion and as God right
which all of the evil that goes on. It's Satan's
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way of trying to draw attention from God to himself, right,
but by honoring Christ and his cross and his crucified
love and his holy face on October thirty first, it's
a great act of reparation for evil, and it brings
him great joy, and it brings protection to those who
otherwise would suffer from the repercussions of either their own
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sin or the sin of others who expose them, especially children,
to this horrible holiday. There we go. I just didn't
want the corner of that picture to be missed out right.
And another reason, you know, there's something just purifying about
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looking at the face of Christ. And I did go
to I always go to all Saints stay Mass tonight,
I'll go again tomorrow. And the readings. What really struck
me was the repetition and the first reading, the second
reading in the Gospel of the pure of heart, and
blessed are the pure of heart. Only the pure of heart,
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see God, if you don't have a super pure heart,
you probably won't understand. And the evil of what goes
on today. And it's easy to shake it off for
you know, excuse it away. But small children they are
very sensitive to evil, because our hearts are pure and
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they should be kept away from evil. And those who
have been purified through the Lord, in a life very
close to him, like madly in love with him, willing
to do anything for him, would naturally be very saddened
to see him mocked or evil glorified after the price
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he paid for us. Right, you look at our lady.
There's no way that she would laugh or find joy
or harmlessness in celebrating evil. Right, she would take it seriously.
And so it's appropriate for us tonight for me to
record this on honoring the Holy Face of Jesus. And
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the other reason that I hung this upstairs in my
hallway is because he promised anything we ask through the
intercession of his Holy Face, by offering his wounded Holy
face to the Father, he will grant and I have needs.
So every time I walk by upstairs, I say that
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prayer and reparation to the Father for the blaspheme that happens,
and it's particularly tonight, but always through those who choose
a life away from Him. And I pray for those
who might love him but don't love him with a
passionate love. You know, think about your husband, if you're
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madly in love with them, or a child, that means
a world to you. If you saw somebody kind of
make fun of them, especially after they had been sick
or hurt, and they were mocking that pain, you might
give an uncomfortable chuckle to be polite, but it would
hurt you. It would hurt you if you loved. And
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that's what goes on with Christ. His pain is mocked, right,
his divinity is mocked. Imagine going through the passion of
the Cross to save people from hell and have them
choose instead of dressing up like a saint to think
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about how they could be holy, dressing up as something
evil and opening the door to evil. It's like spitting
at the gift He gave to us on the cross.
And these little things matter, their mustard seeds, and they matter,
and Satan knows they matters, so they he tempts even
good people to be lackadaisical about them, but Jesus knows
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they matter, and so he raises up people who are
pretty pretty extreme in their understanding of how it pains
his heart. And I am one of those people, right.
I am sensitive to how he feels, and I have
witnessed firsthand the happiness or satisfaction Satan gets in drawing
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people into the misery of celebrating evil and mocking pain, right,
the numbing of the heart. So we're going to offer
Christ the gift tonight of meditating on his beautiful face,
and it will affect us as deeply as looking at
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evil affects people who choose to do evil. Right, people
who choose to do evil look at it. You know,
you have people who abuse children. What do they do?
They take pictures and they want to look at it. Right,
They find a satisfaction in remembering the evil that they did.
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But Christ offers us his face because this is even
before there were real photographs and cameras, right. But he
knew that the human heart needed to see his face.
I mean, the Father knew that. That's why he sent
Christ with a human face with the incarnation. Because whatever
we see is stamped upon our brain. Whatever we choose
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to look at is stamped upon our brain. I'm sorry,
I have a little bit of allergies. And Christ wanted
these images stamped upon our brain. Right. He wanted us
to remember his love that was so great that he suffered.
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And there's so many different versions of Veronica and her
veil and the veil, the veil of even at the
Resurrection that was covering his face and his image here
in the Divine Mercy. There's so many different ways to
remember that face of Christ. Were going to talk about it.
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But this is also an apropos time of year to
do this, because November eleventh is a feast of Saint
Martin of Tours. What in the world does he have
to do with this devotion. He had a deep effect
on several different people who had a devotion to the
Holy Face and kind of brought them together. And he
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was a great intercessor for Saint Mary Peter, who was
a sister who received revelations about the Holy Face. And
I'm doing right now a consecration to the Holy Face.
And when I started, I had bought the book and
then I didn't have time with my dissertation, and I
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picked it up and I thought, I'm just going to
do it. And there's no special feastday coming up, but
I'm going to do it. And I looked at the
little calendar they gave and sure enough, one of the
days they suggest you make this consecration is November eleventh
because of Saint Martin's great influence on spreading this devotion
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of the Holy Face. So when his feast day comes
here you can re listen to this podcast. I think
I'm going to put it out a little bit before
so that you have time. So I pulled out this
first book that I had boughten on the Holy Face
of Christ, and this morning I underlined some of the
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different things that I want to highlight to you about
this devotion. So Sister Mary of Saint Peter lived in
the eighteen forties and her life is there's a beautiful
story about her life, but I want to kind of
jump into the devotion right and I'm just going to
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read here what happened to her. So one day after
she received Holy Communion, Sister Mary of Saint Peter was
privy to see a vision of gess Us in the
company of an angel. Jesus showed her and then this
is her words, the multitudes that were daily falling into hell.
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And he expressed his wish that I should offer myself
without reserve to his good pleasure. Moreover, that I should
abandon to him all the merits I might acquire in
my new career. For the accomplishment of his designs. He
promised me that he would take care of my interests,
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that he would cause me to participate in all his merits,
and that he would himself be the director of my soul.
The angel elsewhere she states that it was the archangel
Raphael urged me to consent to this magnanimous proposal. It
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seemed to me that he envied my happiness. For being
purely spiritual, he could neither suffer nor merit. This celestial
spirit assured me that if I consented to our Lord's request,
the angels would surround my deathbed and defend me against
the faults of the devil. So the Lord shows us
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his face of suffering, so that we understand how important
is suffering, and he draws us into that he wants
us to participate with it. It doesn't mean that you
have to go and beat yourself with a whip until
you're bleeding. It just means that you have to accept
whatever he allows naturally or supernaturally, and offer it in
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union with him for his designs. Right, So I fell
against the cement a day or two ago, and my
hands are pretty battered, both of them. All Christ wants
is for me to offer that, right, I didn't have
a vision of an angel where he came and pierced
my hands. I fell very hard on some cement. But
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those little things that happened to us throughout our lives
are allowed by the Lord and they have merit, just
as if, like you know, Saint Veronica Giuliani, he would
have appeared and pierced my hands himself. Right. Maybe you're
looking at an illness and a diagnosis of something that's
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hard for you to handle, an autoimmune condition and a
cancer or something. It might not seem special because it's
not supernatural. But many of the saints became saints through
accepting natural sufferings that were brought to them and uniting
them with Christ. We look at our saint the other day,
blessed Kiara Lucea right, the young lady in Italy. She
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lived in my time when I was alive, and she
offered up her cancer to the Lord. You look at
people like Edith Stein who were killed by Nazis in
a camp. Right, it wasn't an ecstasy of it was
in a gas chamber with hundreds of other women. And
yet it wasn't that she died, but why she died,
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and how she died, and how she embraced that death,
and we know that from her writing before she was captured,
what her attitude was toward suffering. Those things offered, accepted,
and offered in union with Christ. Offer reparation for you
know Edith offered it for the sin of the Nazis.
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And I am able to offer my hands for those
who commit evil tonight and for the children to be protected. Right.
And Christ is showing us by revealing his image and
his face, the power of suffering. And here what's his
first revelation to Saint Mary of Sister Mary of Saint Peter,
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that souls are falling into hell and he needs her help.
And today as well, souls are falling into hell. And
it's because they're blind. They don't see as Christ sees,
and they don't hear as Christ hears. When I hear
people teach erroneous things, it doesn't make me angry, It
makes me pity them. I realize how blind they are
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to the reality of heaven, and so I pray for them.
And that's kind of the whole purpose of devotion to
the Holy Face, to gaze upon it, to imitate it,
and then to use it to save souls, to use
it to burn upon our hearts, that image of Christ
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and his love, and then for that to feed our
prayer and our own sacrifices to save others. We go
on to read about Sister Mary of Saint Peter. She
wrote in April of eighteen forty three, I heard Jesus
say to me, apply yourself diligently to honor my sacred
heart and also the heart of my mother. These images
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of the Holy Face of Christ are beautiful, not because
they're a physical human face, but because they somehow reveal
that heart of love that Christ has never separate the
two hearts of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart.
It is my desire that you prayed these two hearts
for yourself and for sinners. I in turn, will forget
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your past faults, and furthermore, I will grant you even
more graces than before, because you are now more completely
united to Me through your vows. She had just made
vows as a sister, and he continues to reveal things
about the Holy Face. He offers her the prayer I
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spoke of to make reparation for blasphemy and profanation of Sundays. Right,
So people who blaspheme God by using his name in vain,
and people who blaspheme God by not honoring the Sabbath,
not going to church on Sunday, doing too much work
on Sunday, not keeping it special for him. Right, he said,
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my name everywhere is blasphemed. There are even children who blaspheme.
She was told that this frightful sin wounds his divine
heart more grievously than all other sins. By blasphemy, the
sinner curses Jesus to his face and attacks him publicly.
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By these actions, the sinner pronounces his own judgment and condemnation.
And so she is given this prayer to pray in
reparation for that sin. It's called the Golden Arrow prayer.
And the prayer goes, thus, may the most holy, most sacred,
most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be
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always 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. So it's
a beautiful prayer to have. Maybe you don't want it
printed on your upstairs hallway like I have, but you
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could put it on the front of your fridge or
by your bathroom Saint and pray that in reparation for
the sins against his holy name. I'm gonna continue to
speak about Sister Mary of Saint Peter, but anybody familiar
with Thereesan theology, the theology of Saint Terrez of Lsu
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right knows that her name was Saint Terrez of the
Child Jesus and of the Holy Face. She had a
huge devotion to Jesus, and say, Sister Mary of s
Peter ended up founding an association that was offering up
prayers and sacrifices and reparation to sins against the Holy
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Face of Christ. Saint Trez and her whole family belonged
to that association, right, and Saint Thereza's older sisters truly
believed Sister Mary of Saint Peter was a saint, right,
she had a cause for canonization that was opened. And
then during the inquisitions and things, they began to question
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these revelations. And although her requests for this association based
on the revelations was honored by the popes, and they
even joined themselves. They kind of paused her cause for canonization,
and many believed that it should be reopened. She's a
very saintly sister. But both Sister Mary of Saint Peter
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and Saint Therez endured a lot of sickness and suffering
because of their devotion to the crucified face of Christ,
and they both died early, right, But they didn't see
suffering as a punishment, but instead as like a gift
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of predilection, that God was actually putting a stamp upon
the lives that they chose to live in honor of
His holy face and his suffering. Sister Mary of Saint
Peter said that the more acceptable a thing is to God,
the more odiously to Satan. Try to render it powerless,
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but greater merit awaits the soul who resists the assaults
of the devil. So sometimes things have like immediate success.
Sometimes you'll see saints even have that, and those things
are important, But the most important things in the church
were attacked for a long period of time. You know,
even Saint Louis de Montfort when he wrote The True
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Devotion to Mary and that consecration to our Lady. Satan
hid it and attacked it for one hundred years before
it was revealed to the church. And Saint Faustina too
her diary was attacked because of a false translation. But
eventually it's been one of the greatest devotions given to
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the Church to spread the mercy of God. And so also,
just because devotion to the Holy Face of Christ is
not popular, it's not a sign that it's not from God.
It's actually kind of the opposite. It's a sign that
it will be brought to the forefront. We look at
Saint Joseph too, right, Saint Joseph is the greatest saint
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next to our Lady, and knowledge of him and prayers
to him, devotion to him was hidden for most of
the history of the Church. It's only most recently that
devotion to him has grown. Jesus asked Sister Mary of
Saint Peter to bring forth this work of reparation that
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he asked her to start by her own suffering. And
when she was speaking to her superior about what Christ
had asked of her, it was interesting. Out of her
superior's book fell an image of the Holy Face, and
it had come from a different convent earlier that had
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also revealed Christ's desire for honoring the Holy Face and
to the Superior. It was a sign that this is
really God speaking again, because his first his first request
was unheeded completely. On November fifteenth, eighteen forty three, Sister
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Mary of Saint Peter was given the Holy Face chaplet
from our Lord to honor the five senses that he
suffered in his life and to honor the three years
of his public life. Right, And it's a beautiful prayer
that we can pray at the end. Maybe I'll just
read through it once instead of, you know, for each
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of the senses. But our Lord asks Sister to become
a complete victim of self oblation so that his plans
for the association of reparation would become realized. After communion,
she saw the Lord accompanied by an angel, and she
was given a vision of hell. Right. When you see
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the reality of hell, you no longer pooh pooh evil
in the world. You realize that you know it does
have power and it leads people astray, and you want
nothing to do with it. So that's why saints and
mystics have stronger opinions on wanting nothing to do with
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evil and only to do with good. Right, It doesn't
mean that they're you know, kill joys. Right. Just because
I would never participate in anything to do with Halloween
does not mean that I don't enjoy joy. For years,
my sisters had saint parties and we would have a
family rosary with all the kids and some sweets and
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October thirty first to keep the kids away from the
evil and yet still allow them to enjoy the feast
of all Saints coming up. Right. But when you've experienced
in your heart or like my experience with the exorcism ministry, right,
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that's not just in my heart, it's with my senses.
When you see the power of evil and his plan
and the actual souls that he leads to evil and
into hell, like Jesus is revealing, you want nothing to
do with it, and you want no one you love
it to have anything to do with it, and you
do not want innocent children to have anything to do
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with it. Right. There's certain things that are not okay
to joke about, especially with children, and evil is one.
Evil is one. So there was already an association of reparation,
but she was asked to make another one. Particularly for France, right,
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and Jesus told her to put that association under the
intercession of Saint Michael and Saint Martin of Tours, whose
feast is coming up. So that's really beautiful. And Saint
Martin is seen as a soldier, and so is Saint Michael,
and it's because this association was supposed to be like
an army of soldiers to spiritually fight against the demons
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that spread blasphemy and mockery of the suffering of Christ,
that glorified and worshiped evil in the place of Christ
as the heavenly king. And Saint Martin is also somebody
who's very involved in this, because they wanted him to
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be a priest, and he said, I'm not worth of it,
and then eventually they made him a bishop, which made
him a priest, and he was named an exorcist, and
he rose people from the dead, he healed people, and
he cast out many demons. So he knew the reality
of evil, and he knew the importance of gazing on
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the beautiful face of Christ as a remedy for those
and in reparation for those who instead what hang ugly
things in their yard and gaze on the face of Satan. Right,
we don't want that, and we don't want that for
those we love, especially our little ones. So Saint Martin
is a beautiful intercessor for this. In February of eighteen
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forty four, God filled Sister Mary of Saint Peter's soul,
causing it to feel the interior pain that the heart
of Jesus himself suffered. And he said, if a king
or even an ambassador be despised or set at naught
by a foreign nation, his countrymen fly to arms for
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the honor of the king must be avenged. Troops are levied,
and the death of thousands is counted for naught. And
yet the most wholly and terrible name of God and
of his armies, and the King of Kings is despised.
He's blasphemed, he's mocked, he's misplaced, especially tonight, right through
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a mockery of the feast of all Saints. By celebrating
evil on Halloween, his holy day is profaned by an
infinite number of sinners, and not one is concerned. No
one thinks of avenging him. Right. Sometimes you even see
good and holy priests that excuse away the evil because
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they don't have that purity of heart to see the
reality as some of the saints have, right and those
who are gifted in that way, and exorcists are usually
among them. Right, if you see the face of evil
and you fight it, it's not funny. Right when you've
suffered cancer, it's not something to joke about anymore. So
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when you see people who've been sick by the cancer
of being exposed to evil, you realize it's not nothing.
It actually is something. Right. Behold, our Lord Jesus Christ,
the ambassador from the Kingdom of Heaven, demands reparation of
honor for his divine father, or he proclaims war against us,
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for he has threatened France with his wrath. Shall we
hesitate in our choice? Now? We want to be part
of repairing the evil done to Christ. And it's not
just for France now, it's the whole world. We don't
do it just to repair. We do it because we
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love him. Right, we do it just because of love,
Jesus says, Oh you who are my friends and my
faithful children, look and see if there be any sorrow
like mine. Everywhere. My enemies despise and insult both my
eternal Father and my Church the cherished spouse of my heart.
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Will no one rise up to console me by defending
the glory of my father and the honor of my spouse,
which has been so cruelly attacked. I can no longer
remain in the midst of a people that will continue
to be so heedless and so ungrateful. Look at the
torrents of tears that stream from my eyes? Can I
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find no one to wipe away those tears by making
reparation to my father and imploring forgiveness for the guilty.
Think about the evil that's glorified tonight. Think about people
mocking pain. They put blood everywhere, Right, it's mocking that
image of Christ crucified those who turn to glorify evil
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instead of Christ. It causes him to weep. Believe me
or not, it does, right? Can no one wipe away
his tears? Really? Do people have to say, oh, he's fine.
The heart of Christ is not fine when evil's glorified.
And so we're at a point in the world where
not only we need to not take part in that evil,
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we need to actually live reparation. And that's where I
propose that we live today October thirty first, as a
feast of his crucified love, living in reparation for the
mockery that happens to him directly and to his children
who are victims of evil. The problem is we breathe
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the vile air of modernism. We do not follow tradition anymore.
We do not really mean to call the name of
God in vain. It's just a slip of the tongue,
people say. But Blessed Alphonsis Liguori says, blasphemy so widespread
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in our days, is an abomination to the Lord. It's
the most deadly of all sins. It's ordinarily unpardonable, for
it's a crime of the highest magnitude that can be
committed against the Divinity, a crime that attacks God openly
and directly, a crime therefore which God rarely pardons. It's
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pretty strict. Why would we want to associate with anything
that offends God? I don't. Our Lord told sister Sister
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Mary of Saint Peter Sorry that the demons despise devotion
to his holy face, And he says, are you willing
to walk in my ways? And she said, yes, Lord
I am. He continued, cast yourself blindly into my sacred heart,
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for your badge. I give you the cross and the
thorns that lay buried within my heart. Do not turn
away from the cross nor from these thorns. Because my daughter,
you are being called to a high perfection. Think therefore
only of me, and I in return will think of you. Wow.
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Don't you want to be called to the highest perfection?
Part of that is thinking only of Christ? Right? Why
would you fill your mind with anything that is the
opposite of Christ or doesn't draw your mind to Christ.
And when we think only of Christ, he thinks only
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of us, and He provides for us. He takes care
of us. He says, attend to my affairs, as I
promise you, I will take care of yours, which is
why I wanted a place to honor His Holy Face
in my house and my heart. But if I am
attending to Him, if I'm thinking of him, if I'm
praying in reparation, then he'll do the same for me.
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He'll make sure that my mortgage is paid off before
I'm old, that I have time to return to my
life of deeper prayer. He'll make all work out. And
because she gave herself to His Holy Face consecrating her,
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Christ said, as long as you live. I want you
to look upon this day as one of the most
beautiful days of your life. By my Holy face, you
will work wonders. He said that he desired to see
his Holy face offered as the exterior object of adoration
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to all his children who would be associated in the
work of reparation for blasphemy. He invited me to make
known as Holy Face from the standpoint. Our Lord then
declared that the gift of his adorable countenance, which he
presented to me on that day, was, next to the sacraments,
one of the greatest gifts he could bestow on me.
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So beautiful Sister Mary of Saint Peter said, just as
an earthly kingdom, Jesus said, money which is stamped with
the picture of the sovereign or ruling executive of a
country procures whatever one desires to purchase. So likely wise,
in the Kingdom of Heaven, you will obtain all that
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you desire by offering the coin of my precious humanity,
which is my adorable face. So many times during the
day I'll stop before these images and say, Father, I
offer you the face of Jesus Christ for this intention, right,
for this healing, for this provision for this direction, for
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this he whatever, and so we need to use that
image of the face of Christ as a means of
intercession for peace in the world, right, for good and
holy leaders, for the protection of children. And we can
use it like money, right, just like George Washington is
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on our money. So Christ, who helps us purchase heaven
through his blood, wants us to offer that image of
His face, so radiant in beauty and so suffering, and
to offer it to the Father as we ask for
different things. Also, he particularly said this devotion to the
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Holy Face would conquer the Communists. Well, we know in Fatima,
Mary said to pray for the conversion of Russia. And
it's only when Russia converts that our Immaculate Heart will triumph.
And we've seen Russia spread her errors throughout the world.
We've even seen communism creep into our own government. And
so in reparation and an answer to this, we want
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to spread devotion to the Holy Face because it will
bring about the crushing of communism, the conversion of sinners
in particularly Russia. Right, he has commanded me, Sister Mary
of Saint Peter said to cross swords with the communists who,
as he told me were sworn enemies of the Church
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and of his Christ. He gave me to understand the
greater number of these renegades were born in the bosom
of the Church, of whom they now declare themselves the
most bitter enemies. I hold you in my hands as
an arrow, Jesus said. Now I will shoot forth my
arrow upon my enemies to combat them. I give you
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the arms of my passion, my cross, of which they
are enemies. So also to other instruments of my sufferings.
Wage war against them with the simplicity of a child,
but with the courage of a valiant warrior. For this
mission be signed with the blessing of the Father and
the Son and the Holy Spirit. The arms of my
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enemies inflict death, but mine restore life. And so he
also gave her a prayer, eternal Father, to oppose your enemies.
I offer you the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and all the instruments of his holy passion, that you
can counteract them by death, vision and discord. For your
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well beloved son has said, every kingdom divided against itself
will perish. He goes on to speak about communism, but
I'm gonna run out of time here, so I'm gonna
skip ahead. Saint Mary of Sister Mary of Saint Peter
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was not the only saint devoted to the holy face
of Christ. Saint Dismiss, gazing upon the face of Christ
next to him on the cross, was led to great
conversion right and said those words, you know, be with
me or remember me when you come into your kingdom,
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and Christ said, you will be with me in Paradise.
Saint Veronica is a great lover of the face of Christ.
In fact, when she courageously wiped his face on the
way of the cross, he imprinted that face on her
veil so that she could gaze upon it forever. Right.
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Saint Jude, when he was sent to Odessa, had that
beautiful image of the face of Christ to bring to
the king there. Saint Martin of Tours, as I spoke,
was a great intercessor for Sister Mary of Saint Peter
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and helped with the arch confraternity being founded. And she
saw that it was on his feast day that things
came together and his city of Tours, and it's just
really beautiful to see his heavenly involvement in this mission.
Saint Augustine. You know he was from three point fifty four,
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and he had a beautiful devotion to the Holy Face
right from the beginning of the foundation of the church.
What did he say, Let us return wiping away the sweat,
Let us end the weariness and the weeping, that we
may shine in Thy all satisfying face. He felt called
to approach the face of Christ and to bask in
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his gaze, to let Christ gaze on him from the image.
What a beautiful thing. Saint Augustine also said, I will
be filled with overflowing joy with Thy face, because without
thy face there would be no joy for us. And
Saint Augustine even wrote a beautiful prayer to the Holy Face,
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which I'll share with you. I present myself before thy
Holy Face, my Savior, laden with my sins and the
penalties which they have brought upon me. My sufferings are
far less than what I deserve. For although I am
conscious of the just punished of my sins, I do not,
on that account cease to commit fresh ones. Every day
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I am bowed down under thy scourges, and I do
not become better. My heart is full of bitterness and
my obstinacy in doing evil remains forever the same. My
life passes away in misery. I do not correct myself
when you chastise me. I make the best promises in
the world. As soon as you lift up your hand,
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I forget what I have promised you. I make to you,
Oh God, a sincere confession of my sins. I protest
in your presence that if you do not shall mercy
upon me, I shall be in danger of perishing. Utterly.
Grant me, my Savior, that I beg of you, although
I do not deserve it, since you have, of your
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goodness drawn me out of nothingness to put me into
a state where I can pray to you Amen. Saint
Francis of a also had a beautiful devotion to the
Holy Face, and he used to bless his friars with
a prayer about the Holy Face of God shining upon them.
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Saint Gertrude the Great also had a great devotion to
the Holy Face. One day, she had a vision of
Jesus tied to a pillar between two guards, oneed thorns
and the other a scourge. Jesus was struck on his
face and turning for relief, he was struck on the
face by the other guard. Tell me, Oh Lord, said
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Saint Gertrude, the remedy I can soothe the sufferings of
your divine face. Jesus replied, if anyone meditates on my
sufferings with tenderness and compassion, his heart will be to
me as a soothing balm for these wounds. She also said,
they shall receive in themselves, by the impression of my humanity,
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a bright irridation of My divinity, and shall be so
illuminated by it in their inmost souls that by their
likeness to my face, they shall shine with a brightness
surpassing that of many others in eternal life. That's what
Jesus said to Saint Gertrude about those who meditate on
his face, who love his face. You'll receive that imprint
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upon your heart also from Saint Gertrude. At the end
of this life, I shall see the most refulgent light
of thy excellent divinity, where thy most sweet face, with
its rose beauty, shall comfort me with its regal aspect,
illuminate with the rays from thy face, so that my
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shadows may become as noonday in thy sight. Wounds of
the body of Christ are the blemishes of the church,
while thy face says much more. Since to gaze once
it is face teaches everything. And again thy loving glance,
exceedingly benign and gracious, deigns to arrange and dispose the
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manner of my nuptials. Then call me with the clear
and harmonious voice, like unto sweet music. Behold the spouse
comes open, and unite yourself to him more intimately. Julian
of Norwich also had a lot of visions and a
great devotion to the face of Christ. She wrote, I
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saw the sweet face emaciated and bloodless with the pallor
of death. And afterwards I saw even more pale, languishing
and without life, more livid, more wan. In this way
I saw his life abandon his body. The passion of
Jesus manifests itself to me, especially through his blessed face,
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and above all through his head mouth. Saint Veronica Giuliani
suffed the stigmata with Christ. She had so many mystical gifts,
and Christ in plant imprinted upon her heart the images
of his passion about his holy face. She said. At
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some point I saw Saint Teresa Avela, as if suspended
in mid air in ecstasy. In front of her, there
was a shining angel, and he had a golden arrow
in his hand and put it in Saint Teresa's heart.
She became like a fiery furnace, consumed by love in
an instant. In the same place, close to the Lord,
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she offered herself completely to God. And it seemed that
the Lord made me understand that when she was wounded
by love in that act, she became completely detached from everything,
so much so that she did not want to know
anything about the world anymore. Detached from everything and everyone,
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she remained in God alone and did not have any
other thought except for God and her soul. This is
what we want. So God showed Veronica Giuliani the image
of this happening to Terres or therees of Avala, to
inflame her own heart to want to experience that as well,
and Christ did do that. He ended up in printing
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the image of his passion upon her heart. We too
want to gaze on these beautiful images of his face,
and we pray that through this teaching tonight, through our prayers,
our devotions, that He may pierce our hearts with arrows
of love so that they're purified and so that we
desire to gaze only upon Him Right Blessed. Basil Moreau
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also had a great devotion to the Holy Face of Christ.
He said, when you have received the picture of the
Holy Face, I ask you arrange for some special devotion
to it every day. So he was proposing that his
priests would also would also pray and have a devotion
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every day to the Holy Face. He said, it would
please me to know that those of you who have
a copy of the Holy Face, like those distributed at Rome,
pay special homage to it, as is so happily the
custom in the crypt of our conventual church. It seems
to me that this practice must be very pleasing to
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the Savior, whose sufferings for our redemption are too easily forgot. Right.
Saint Gaetano Catanso, I've never heard of him, but he
was from Italy. He was a diocesan priest, and he
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founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Saint Veronica Missionaries
of the Holy Face. Right, so we obviously had a
deep love, and he would say, the Holy Face of
Christ is my life and my strength. With Jesus, let
us turn our gaze to the abandoned children and youth
of today. Humanity is morally more morally sick than ever.
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Those are like the words I'm trying to speak tonight.
So we ask his intercession, especially for the children who
are exposed to evil or who suffer from evil, right
those who look upon evil. On Halloween. We pray that
Jesus helps us to turn our gaze to these abandoned children,
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these children whose parents or caretakers of abandoned them to evil,
and we offer them instead to gaze upon the holy
face of Christ, so that they become images of Christ,
right images of Christ. To Blessed Maria of pear And,
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Jesus said, nobody gives me a kiss of love on
my face to make amends for the kiss of Judas.
So think of every moment that you gaze upon the
face of Christ. You can almost you know, how like
when you look at someone you love, you don't even
need to give them a hug or kiss. Your eyes
can touch them. If you can gaze on the face
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of Christ with love, it's like giving him a kiss
of reparation for what Judas did. Jesus also said to her,
every time my face is contemplated, I will pour out
my love into the heart of those persons, and by
means of my Holy Face, the salvation of many souls
will be obtained. Every time you gaze upon the face
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of Christ, he pours out his love and mercy within
your heart like a fire, to purify you and to
infrain you, to teach you. Before we end, I just
wanted to very briefly touch on the devotion to the
Holy Face of Christ. Is his holy face in the
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passion right and most particularly on the veil of Veronica.
But gazing on the face of Christ from his moment
of birth to the moment of his glorification and when
he was taken up into heaven, and the ascension to
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the face of Christ that we read about in Revelation,
I forgot. I wanted to pull out that passage from Revelation,
but you'll have to do that yourself. Right. All of
that is a grace God, the Father decided to send
his word, Jesus Christ to earth incarnated, so that we
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could touch him. We could smell him, we could feel him,
we could hear him, and with our eyes we can
gaze upon him. Right. And like I said in the
podcast last week on Spiritual Warfare with Children, we become
what we look at. Right, If you allow children to
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look at evil, they're going to act evil sometimes. But
if you gaze on the face of Christ, then you'll
come to imitate that. Just like a child gazing on
a beautiful mother picks up her gestures and things right.
And gazing on the face of Christ is not just
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like humanly imprinting him upon yourself, but because he's God,
there's a mystical grace that does a transformation in us
above and beyond just the normal nature, natural way of
becoming what you contemplate. So it's very important to do.
First we see the face of Christ in Bethlehem. Imagine
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the moment that Mary gives birth to the face of
baby Jesus, and Saint Joseph is the first with her
to gaze upon that innocent, beautiful little face. We think
about that all of Christmas, and it gives us peace
and joy because the face of God does that. Imagine
the shepherds and the three Kings that come, and when
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they see that face of Christ, they fall on their
knees and they dore they worship, and that innocence of
a God made a baby is a printed upon them.
Imagine the humility and the purity of heart, the poverty,
the simplicity, the prayerfulness that they begin to imitate because
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they gaze on the infant Christ. And as Christ grows
up and he begins his ministry, we look at him
as the good shepherd. He says, how many times I
am the good shepherd? Why he wants us to look
at him that way, to see him as this carrying, strong, protective,
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loving keeper of our souls. It's easy to look at
him that way, in this image of divine mercy. Or
if you watch the Chosen, that scene of Christ with
the children, right, what a beautiful shepherd he was. And
we want to lay our heads on his chest that
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we John did, and to let him pick us up,
whether we're lost sheep, broken sheep, or just really needy sheep, right,
those who just love him so much and want to
be held. We have to allow him to care for
us and to guide us. And we need to look
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upon his face so that we know the face of
our shepherds, so that we recognize it, especially when times
get dark and confusing, right, so we know where to go.
Christ didn't want to just be on earth for thirty
three years. He wanted to leave his image here, and
so he gives us his heart. In the Eucharist, he
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imprints his very face upon the Eucharistic hoast, and we
take that host to ourselves. It's like a kiss when
we receive that presence of Christ within us, and in
adoration we sit and we gaze on the face of
Christ and the Eucharist. Rarely do we see his face
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like on a painting on the host. It's happened to people, right,
But our hearts see him and recognize him. And of
course on Calvary and on the veil of Veronica, on
the hearts of all of those, especially his mother who
watched him suffer, Christ leaves that impression of his crucified
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face that we love and we adore and we want
to repair and heal. And Christ wants to do that.
Just like Veronica Giuliani or Saint Clair of Montefalco, he
imprinted his image physically on their hearts. They found it
after their death. We asked Christ to imprint his image
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upon our hearts and then to radiate it from us
to the world. And in the resurrection his face must
have been so glorified. Mary Magdalen didn't even recognize them.
At first, every wound was glorified. Imagine the light and
the beauty. That's why I love that section. I don't
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have a Bible right here. That section of scripture that
speaks about the fiery flame that Christ's face takes on
in the Book of Revelation. That's a glorified Christ. And
we imagine his face not only when he appears in
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the Resurrection, but then he speaks those last words to
the apostles, and then he goes up into heaven in
the ascension. Imagine how grateful the people were that they
had gazed upon Christ as long as they had, because
when he was gone, their memory was full of the
image of his face. And for you and I, who
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never knew him walking on earth, somehow Christ uses love
to paint every detail of his face upon our minds
and our hearts. We don't want that image desecrated. We
want that image honored. We want, like our lady, to
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magnify the Lord. And we do that by allowing him
to press image upon us, and then to be magnified
from within us, so that others who might not want
to stop and look at the face of Christ. They're
too distracted by the world or too overwhelmed with images
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of evil, that they might encounter us. They might not
walk into a church, they might not go upstairs into
my hallway and see an image of Christ. But by
looking at me, by looking at you, they may come
to see that image of Christ who loves them, and
they can be changed. There is a special chaplet of
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the Holy Face that Christ asked be prayed. I don't
pray it often. I will tell you that, but you say,
in honor of the sense of touch, Oh Lord, our God,
my Jesus, mercy, in honor of the sense of hearing, right,
and you go through all your senses, and then you
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say from the psalms, arise O Lord, let thy enemies
be scattered, Let all that hate THEE flee before thy
Holy Face. So let's say that ten times, and we
pray that tonight, and we pray that over the rest
of our lives. Arise O Lord, let thy enemies be scattered,
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and let all that hate THEE flee before thy Holy face.
A rise O Lord, let thy enemies be scattered. Let
all that hate THEE flee before thy Holy face. Arise
O Lord, let thy enemies be scattered. Let all that
hate THEE flee before thy holy face. Arise O, Lord,
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let thy enemies be scattered. Let all that hate THEE
flee from before thy holy face. Arise O, Lord, let
thy enemies be scattered. Let all that hate THEE flee
from before thy holy face. Arise O, Lord, let thy
enemies be scattered. Let all who hate THEE flee from
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before thy holy face. Arise O, Lord, let thy enemies
be scattered. Let all who hate THEE flee from before
thy holy face. Arise O, Lord, let thy enemies be scattered.
Let all that hate THEE flee from before thy holy face.
Arise O, Lord, let thy enemies be scattered. Let all
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that hate THEE flee from before thy holy face. And
then at the end, you say, God, our Protector, look
upon us, and cast thy eyes upon the face of
thy Christ. May the thrice holy name of God overflow,
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overthrow all their plans. May the Holy Name of the
Living God split them up by disagreements. May the terrible
Name of God of Eternity stamp out all of their godlessness. Amen,
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I was just looking to see. Then they have a
whole special mass. It's not in there. I was looking
to see if it was that Book of Revelation. There's
a special mass in honor of the Holy Face that
would be beautiful if you're priests listening to us, that
you find it and that you offer it in reparation
for the sins of blasphemy in the world. Souls that
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are devoted to reparation are devoted to peace. They are
the peacemakers. Blessed are the peacemakers right. And Christ is
asking us to gaze upon His face, to grow in
love for his Holy Face, to honor it, to adore it,
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not only so that we become holy, but as acts
of adoration and reparation to bring peace to this world.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and
to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning,
is now and ever shall be world without end Aimen, Alleluia.
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Hello, and welcome to the heart of Fiat crucified Love. Tonight,
we are going to talk about the devotion of the
Holy Face of Christ to the Holy Face of Christ.
And this is a beautiful devotion that has been in
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the Church since the beginning. With Jesus, right, he left
his holy face on the veil of Veronika and on
the shroud, on the beautiful cloth on his face. And
the Resurrection, he imprinted his face on the cloth that
he sent with Saint Jude to the king who had
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asked him to come and heal him. And he imprinted
his face on the heart of our lady and made
him her the perfect disciple. And that's the desire of
Christ for each one of us to have us gaze
upon his face, the same way that when people love someone,
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they want a photograph of them. Right, He wants us
to have many images of his face around our home,
to gaze on his face, but not only with the
eyes of our body, but the eyes of our heart.
And through this he will transform us, and he will
make us to come to resemble the face of His love.
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So we're going to talk about all of that this evening.
And I thought we would start with a prayer. And
I hurt my hand this week. I fell on the
sidewalk and I have my right hand all wrapped up.
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My left hand is pretty binged up too, But I tried,
and I think I can play one song. So we're
gonna do that, right, and we'll say a prayer, and
then we'll talk about, you know, these different aspects of
a devotion to the Holy Face and the saints that
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shared this devotion. So in the name of the Father
and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen, Come, Holy Spirit,
fill the hearts of your faithful enkindle in us a
fire of your love. Send forth your spirit, and we
will be recreated. And thou shalt renew the face of
the earth.
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Oh, Sweet Jesus, we ask you to be with us
as we talk about this beautiful mystery of your holy
holy face. I decided just a few months ago that
I would learn more about this devotion, and the more
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that I read, and it was you know how when
God wants to tap you on the shoulder about something,
he sends you many different ways to get your attention.
And so you know, I'd come across books and then
you know things that the saints wrote or things that
you know corresponded with scripture, or maybe in a in
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a Facebook post, or I would say, like a magazine.
But the only magazines I reader articles my mom cuts
out for me. But it was like from all these
different places came stuff on the devotion to the Holy Face.
So I took some time to really read about it
and to pray about it. And it was on my
heart to have a place in my home where I
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honored the Holy Face of Jesus. And since I was
in high school, I've prayed that prayer to the Holy
Face in reparation for the sin of blasphemy. And it's
in the Pieta book, that little blue prayer book called
the Pieda maybe the most holy most. I have it
written down here, we're going to pray it. I used
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to know it my heart, but I don't anymore. But
I had it. I ordered it on like a big canvas,
and then a bunch of these pictures that I just
put in like a conglomeration here, and I hung it
in my hallway upstairs, along with this beautiful image of
Jesus from the Divine Mercy Image. And this I was
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also given to when I was in high school and
I went to do missionary work in Russia. The Germans
gave us some of these with prayers on the back
to hand out to the people of Russia, and I
kept a few, so I still have one. And I
placed this as a place of honor in my hallway
upstairs for two reasons. One because I wanted the face
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of Christ imprinted on my heart. And I knew that
at the time where that prayer was given to the
world in reparation for the sins of blasphemy, there was
even less blasphemy than there is today. Right hundreds of
years ago there was some, but now it's even more common.
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And I've seen the power in offering reparation. Jesus has
revealed to the saints over time that every time somebody
blasphemes the name of God, it's another wound on his face,
and it's mockery, it's sadistic, and there really isn't anything
funny about it or unimportant. People like to kind of
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pooh pooh away, to demean the importance of or the
significance or the effect that evil really can have on
the world, and especially on innocent people, on the children,
and tonight actually when I'm recording this, it's a beautiful gift.
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It's October thirty first, and there is a lot of
sin in the world and the glorification of evil. And
I know, even priests and Catholics say, oh, it's not
a big deal, but it actually is. Maybe their love
needs to increase a little. But when you really love
someone and you see them mocked, there's really nothing funny
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about it. And the evil that's glorified tonight, and you know,
dressing up as witches and goblins and ghosts and satanic
things and bloody, you know, gory things does two things.
It mocks the passion of Christ and the beauty of
his wounds, and it desensitizes people, and it glorifies evil,
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and it opens a door to let in Satan into
the human heart, which is the place that Christ is
supposed to reign. Right and you think about the children
at Fatimah, who were willing to do major prayer and
sacrifice to help save the world. Would they celebrate something
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that's evil? And the answers no. And I know sometimes
people say, well, you know, Saint carlos Akut is dressed
up once. Well, you know what, when I was little
I did too, and God forbid if anyone ever uses
a picture of me as a child to promote the
evil that goes on today, because my parents didn't know,
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and once they learned, we stopped participating in the evil
of today. And I have very strong feelings on it,
especially being in the exorcism and deliverance ministry. You know,
people say it doesn't affect people, but it does. I've
seen it. I've rubbed elbows with it. I know what
Satan is doing, and so do all the exercis I've
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ever worked with, and there are many, many right, tens
and tens, so say, probably forty different ones, and so
I've you know, the Lord has told me over the
years to really honor his gift of the Cross on
October thirty first, and to honor his crucified love. And
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it's beautiful because I got the copy of my book
today that I wrote on Crucified Love on the very mystery,
so I was able to I felt like he was
kind of winking at me, saying, this is our little
feast day to remember the Cross. And there's a power
in honoring him and his passion and as God right
which all of the evil that goes on. It's Satan's
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way of trying to draw attention from God to himself, right,
but by honoring Christ and his cross and his crucified
love and his holy face on October thirty first, it's
a great act of reparation for evil, and it brings
him great joy, and it brings protection to those who
otherwise would suffer from the repercussions of either their own
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sin or the sin of others who expose them, especially children,
to this horrible holiday. There we go. I just didn't
want the corner of that picture to be missed out right.
And another reason, you know, there's something just purifying about
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looking at the face of Christ. And I did go
to I always go to all Saints stay Mass tonight,
I'll go again tomorrow. And the readings. What really struck
me was the repetition and the first reading, the second
reading in the Gospel of the pure of heart, and
blessed are the pure of heart. Only the pure of heart,
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see God, if you don't have a super pure heart,
you probably won't understand. And the evil of what goes
on today. And it's easy to shake it off for
you know, excuse it away. But small children they are
very sensitive to evil, because our hearts are pure and
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they should be kept away from evil. And those who
have been purified through the Lord, in a life very
close to him, like madly in love with him, willing
to do anything for him, would naturally be very saddened
to see him mocked or evil glorified after the price
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he paid for us. Right, you look at our lady.
There's no way that she would laugh or find joy
or harmlessness in celebrating evil. Right, she would take it seriously.
And so it's appropriate for us tonight for me to
record this on honoring the Holy Face of Jesus. And
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the other reason that I hung this upstairs in my
hallway is because he promised anything we ask through the
intercession of his Holy Face, by offering his wounded Holy
face to the Father, he will grant and I have needs.
So every time I walk by upstairs, I say that
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prayer and reparation to the Father for the blaspheme that happens,
and it's particularly tonight, but always through those who choose
a life away from Him. And I pray for those
who might love him but don't love him with a
passionate love. You know, think about your husband, if you're
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madly in love with them, or a child, that means
a world to you. If you saw somebody kind of
make fun of them, especially after they had been sick
or hurt, and they were mocking that pain, you might
give an uncomfortable chuckle to be polite, but it would
hurt you. It would hurt you if you loved. And
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that's what goes on with Christ. His pain is mocked, right,
his divinity is mocked. Imagine going through the passion of
the Cross to save people from hell and have them
choose instead of dressing up like a saint to think
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about how they could be holy, dressing up as something
evil and opening the door to evil. It's like spitting
at the gift He gave to us on the cross.
And these little things matter, their mustard seeds, and they matter,
and Satan knows they matters, so they he tempts even
good people to be lackadaisical about them, but Jesus knows
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they matter, and so he raises up people who are
pretty pretty extreme in their understanding of how it pains
his heart. And I am one of those people, right.
I am sensitive to how he feels, and I have
witnessed firsthand the happiness or satisfaction Satan gets in drawing
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people into the misery of celebrating evil and mocking pain, right,
the numbing of the heart. So we're going to offer
Christ the gift tonight of meditating on his beautiful face,
and it will affect us as deeply as looking at
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evil affects people who choose to do evil. Right, people
who choose to do evil look at it. You know,
you have people who abuse children. What do they do?
They take pictures and they want to look at it. Right,
They find a satisfaction in remembering the evil that they did.
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But Christ offers us his face because this is even
before there were real photographs and cameras, right. But he
knew that the human heart needed to see his face.
I mean, the Father knew that. That's why he sent
Christ with a human face with the incarnation. Because whatever
we see is stamped upon our brain. Whatever we choose
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to look at is stamped upon our brain. I'm sorry,
I have a little bit of allergies. And Christ wanted
these images stamped upon our brain. Right. He wanted us
to remember his love that was so great that he suffered.
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And there's so many different versions of Veronica and her
veil and the veil, the veil of even at the
Resurrection that was covering his face and his image here
in the Divine Mercy. There's so many different ways to
remember that face of Christ. Were going to talk about it.
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But this is also an apropos time of year to
do this, because November eleventh is a feast of Saint
Martin of Tours. What in the world does he have
to do with this devotion. He had a deep effect
on several different people who had a devotion to the
Holy Face and kind of brought them together. And he
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was a great intercessor for Saint Mary Peter, who was
a sister who received revelations about the Holy Face. And
I'm doing right now a consecration to the Holy Face.
And when I started, I had bought the book and
then I didn't have time with my dissertation, and I
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picked it up and I thought, I'm just going to
do it. And there's no special feastday coming up, but
I'm going to do it. And I looked at the
little calendar they gave and sure enough, one of the
days they suggest you make this consecration is November eleventh
because of Saint Martin's great influence on spreading this devotion
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of the Holy Face. So when his feast day comes
here you can re listen to this podcast. I think
I'm going to put it out a little bit before
so that you have time. So I pulled out this
first book that I had boughten on the Holy Face
of Christ, and this morning I underlined some of the
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different things that I want to highlight to you about
this devotion. So Sister Mary of Saint Peter lived in
the eighteen forties and her life is there's a beautiful
story about her life, but I want to kind of
jump into the devotion right and I'm just going to
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read here what happened to her. So one day after
she received Holy Communion, Sister Mary of Saint Peter was
privy to see a vision of gess Us in the
company of an angel. Jesus showed her and then this
is her words, the multitudes that were daily falling into hell.
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And he expressed his wish that I should offer myself
without reserve to his good pleasure. Moreover, that I should
abandon to him all the merits I might acquire in
my new career. For the accomplishment of his designs. He
promised me that he would take care of my interests,
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that he would cause me to participate in all his merits,
and that he would himself be the director of my soul.
The angel elsewhere she states that it was the archangel
Raphael urged me to consent to this magnanimous proposal. It
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seemed to me that he envied my happiness. For being
purely spiritual, he could neither suffer nor merit. This celestial
spirit assured me that if I consented to our Lord's request,
the angels would surround my deathbed and defend me against
the faults of the devil. So the Lord shows us
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his face of suffering, so that we understand how important
is suffering, and he draws us into that he wants
us to participate with it. It doesn't mean that you
have to go and beat yourself with a whip until
you're bleeding. It just means that you have to accept
whatever he allows naturally or supernaturally, and offer it in
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union with him for his designs. Right, So I fell
against the cement a day or two ago, and my
hands are pretty battered, both of them. All Christ wants
is for me to offer that, right, I didn't have
a vision of an angel where he came and pierced
my hands. I fell very hard on some cement. But
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those little things that happened to us throughout our lives
are allowed by the Lord and they have merit, just
as if, like you know, Saint Veronica Giuliani, he would
have appeared and pierced my hands himself. Right. Maybe you're
looking at an illness and a diagnosis of something that's
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hard for you to handle, an autoimmune condition and a
cancer or something. It might not seem special because it's
not supernatural. But many of the saints became saints through
accepting natural sufferings that were brought to them and uniting
them with Christ. We look at our saint the other day,
blessed Kiara Lucea right, the young lady in Italy. She
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lived in my time when I was alive, and she
offered up her cancer to the Lord. You look at
people like Edith Stein who were killed by Nazis in
a camp. Right, it wasn't an ecstasy of it was
in a gas chamber with hundreds of other women. And
yet it wasn't that she died, but why she died,
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and how she died, and how she embraced that death,
and we know that from her writing before she was captured,
what her attitude was toward suffering. Those things offered, accepted,
and offered in union with Christ. Offer reparation for you
know Edith offered it for the sin of the Nazis.
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And I am able to offer my hands for those
who commit evil tonight and for the children to be protected. Right.
And Christ is showing us by revealing his image and
his face, the power of suffering. And here what's his
first revelation to Saint Mary of Sister Mary of Saint Peter,
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that souls are falling into hell and he needs her help.
And today as well, souls are falling into hell. And
it's because they're blind. They don't see as Christ sees,
and they don't hear as Christ hears. When I hear
people teach erroneous things, it doesn't make me angry, It
makes me pity them. I realize how blind they are
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to the reality of heaven, and so I pray for them.
And that's kind of the whole purpose of devotion to
the Holy Face, to gaze upon it, to imitate it,
and then to use it to save souls, to use
it to burn upon our hearts, that image of Christ
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and his love, and then for that to feed our
prayer and our own sacrifices to save others. We go
on to read about Sister Mary of Saint Peter. She
wrote in April of eighteen forty three, I heard Jesus
say to me, apply yourself diligently to honor my sacred
heart and also the heart of my mother. These images
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of the Holy Face of Christ are beautiful, not because
they're a physical human face, but because they somehow reveal
that heart of love that Christ has never separate the
two hearts of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart.
It is my desire that you prayed these two hearts
for yourself and for sinners. I in turn, will forget
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your past faults, and furthermore, I will grant you even
more graces than before, because you are now more completely
united to Me through your vows. She had just made
vows as a sister, and he continues to reveal things
about the Holy Face. He offers her the prayer I
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spoke of to make reparation for blasphemy and profanation of Sundays. Right,
So people who blaspheme God by using his name in vain,
and people who blaspheme God by not honoring the Sabbath,
not going to church on Sunday, doing too much work
on Sunday, not keeping it special for him. Right, he said,
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my name everywhere is blasphemed. There are even children who blaspheme.
She was told that this frightful sin wounds his divine
heart more grievously than all other sins. By blasphemy, the
sinner curses Jesus to his face and attacks him publicly.
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By these actions, the sinner pronounces his own judgment and condemnation.
And so she is given this prayer to pray in
reparation for that sin. It's called the Golden Arrow prayer.
And the prayer goes, thus, may the most holy, most sacred,
most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be
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always 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. So it's
a beautiful prayer to have. Maybe you don't want it
printed on your upstairs hallway like I have, but you
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could put it on the front of your fridge or
by your bathroom Saint and pray that in reparation for
the sins against his holy name. I'm gonna continue to
speak about Sister Mary of Saint Peter, but anybody familiar
with Thereesan theology, the theology of Saint Terrez of Lsu
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right knows that her name was Saint Terrez of the
Child Jesus and of the Holy Face. She had a
huge devotion to Jesus, and say, Sister Mary of s
Peter ended up founding an association that was offering up
prayers and sacrifices and reparation to sins against the Holy
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Face of Christ. Saint Trez and her whole family belonged
to that association, right, and Saint Thereza's older sisters truly
believed Sister Mary of Saint Peter was a saint, right,
she had a cause for canonization that was opened. And
then during the inquisitions and things, they began to question
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these revelations. And although her requests for this association based
on the revelations was honored by the popes, and they
even joined themselves. They kind of paused her cause for canonization,
and many believed that it should be reopened. She's a
very saintly sister. But both Sister Mary of Saint Peter
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and Saint Therez endured a lot of sickness and suffering
because of their devotion to the crucified face of Christ,
and they both died early, right, But they didn't see
suffering as a punishment, but instead as like a gift
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of predilection, that God was actually putting a stamp upon
the lives that they chose to live in honor of
His holy face and his suffering. Sister Mary of Saint
Peter said that the more acceptable a thing is to God,
the more odiously to Satan. Try to render it powerless,
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but greater merit awaits the soul who resists the assaults
of the devil. So sometimes things have like immediate success.
Sometimes you'll see saints even have that, and those things
are important, But the most important things in the church
were attacked for a long period of time. You know,
even Saint Louis de Montfort when he wrote The True
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Devotion to Mary and that consecration to our Lady. Satan
hid it and attacked it for one hundred years before
it was revealed to the church. And Saint Faustina too
her diary was attacked because of a false translation. But
eventually it's been one of the greatest devotions given to
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the Church to spread the mercy of God. And so also,
just because devotion to the Holy Face of Christ is
not popular, it's not a sign that it's not from God.
It's actually kind of the opposite. It's a sign that
it will be brought to the forefront. We look at
Saint Joseph too, right, Saint Joseph is the greatest saint
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next to our Lady, and knowledge of him and prayers
to him, devotion to him was hidden for most of
the history of the Church. It's only most recently that
devotion to him has grown. Jesus asked Sister Mary of
Saint Peter to bring forth this work of reparation that
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he asked her to start by her own suffering. And
when she was speaking to her superior about what Christ
had asked of her, it was interesting. Out of her
superior's book fell an image of the Holy Face, and
it had come from a different convent earlier that had
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also revealed Christ's desire for honoring the Holy Face and
to the Superior. It was a sign that this is
really God speaking again, because his first his first request
was unheeded completely. On November fifteenth, eighteen forty three, Sister
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Mary of Saint Peter was given the Holy Face chaplet
from our Lord to honor the five senses that he
suffered in his life and to honor the three years
of his public life. Right, And it's a beautiful prayer
that we can pray at the end. Maybe I'll just
read through it once instead of, you know, for each
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of the senses. But our Lord asks Sister to become
a complete victim of self oblation so that his plans
for the association of reparation would become realized. After communion,
she saw the Lord accompanied by an angel, and she
was given a vision of hell. Right. When you see
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the reality of hell, you no longer pooh pooh evil
in the world. You realize that you know it does
have power and it leads people astray, and you want
nothing to do with it. So that's why saints and
mystics have stronger opinions on wanting nothing to do with
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evil and only to do with good. Right, It doesn't
mean that they're you know, kill joys. Right. Just because
I would never participate in anything to do with Halloween
does not mean that I don't enjoy joy. For years,
my sisters had saint parties and we would have a
family rosary with all the kids and some sweets and
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October thirty first to keep the kids away from the
evil and yet still allow them to enjoy the feast
of all Saints coming up. Right. But when you've experienced
in your heart or like my experience with the exorcism ministry, right,
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that's not just in my heart, it's with my senses.
When you see the power of evil and his plan
and the actual souls that he leads to evil and
into hell, like Jesus is revealing, you want nothing to
do with it, and you want no one you love
it to have anything to do with it, and you
do not want innocent children to have anything to do
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with it. Right. There's certain things that are not okay
to joke about, especially with children, and evil is one.
Evil is one. So there was already an association of reparation,
but she was asked to make another one. Particularly for France, right,
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and Jesus told her to put that association under the
intercession of Saint Michael and Saint Martin of Tours, whose
feast is coming up. So that's really beautiful. And Saint
Martin is seen as a soldier, and so is Saint Michael,
and it's because this association was supposed to be like
an army of soldiers to spiritually fight against the demons
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that spread blasphemy and mockery of the suffering of Christ,
that glorified and worshiped evil in the place of Christ
as the heavenly king. And Saint Martin is also somebody
who's very involved in this, because they wanted him to
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be a priest, and he said, I'm not worth of it,
and then eventually they made him a bishop, which made
him a priest, and he was named an exorcist, and
he rose people from the dead, he healed people, and
he cast out many demons. So he knew the reality
of evil, and he knew the importance of gazing on
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the beautiful face of Christ as a remedy for those
and in reparation for those who instead what hang ugly
things in their yard and gaze on the face of Satan. Right,
we don't want that, and we don't want that for
those we love, especially our little ones. So Saint Martin
is a beautiful intercessor for this. In February of eighteen
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forty four, God filled Sister Mary of Saint Peter's soul,
causing it to feel the interior pain that the heart
of Jesus himself suffered. And he said, if a king
or even an ambassador be despised or set at naught
by a foreign nation, his countrymen fly to arms for
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the honor of the king must be avenged. Troops are levied,
and the death of thousands is counted for naught. And
yet the most wholly and terrible name of God and
of his armies, and the King of Kings is despised.
He's blasphemed, he's mocked, he's misplaced, especially tonight, right through
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a mockery of the feast of all Saints. By celebrating
evil on Halloween, his holy day is profaned by an
infinite number of sinners, and not one is concerned. No
one thinks of avenging him. Right. Sometimes you even see
good and holy priests that excuse away the evil because
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they don't have that purity of heart to see the
reality as some of the saints have, right and those
who are gifted in that way, and exorcists are usually
among them. Right, if you see the face of evil
and you fight it, it's not funny. Right when you've
suffered cancer, it's not something to joke about anymore. So
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when you see people who've been sick by the cancer
of being exposed to evil, you realize it's not nothing.
It actually is something. Right. Behold, our Lord Jesus Christ,
the ambassador from the Kingdom of Heaven, demands reparation of
honor for his divine father, or he proclaims war against us,
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for he has threatened France with his wrath. Shall we
hesitate in our choice? Now? We want to be part
of repairing the evil done to Christ. And it's not
just for France now, it's the whole world. We don't
do it just to repair. We do it because we
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love him. Right, we do it just because of love,
Jesus says, Oh you who are my friends and my
faithful children, look and see if there be any sorrow
like mine. Everywhere. My enemies despise and insult both my
eternal Father and my Church the cherished spouse of my heart.
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Will no one rise up to console me by defending
the glory of my father and the honor of my spouse,
which has been so cruelly attacked. I can no longer
remain in the midst of a people that will continue
to be so heedless and so ungrateful. Look at the
torrents of tears that stream from my eyes? Can I
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find no one to wipe away those tears by making
reparation to my father and imploring forgiveness for the guilty.
Think about the evil that's glorified tonight. Think about people
mocking pain. They put blood everywhere, Right, it's mocking that
image of Christ crucified those who turn to glorify evil
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instead of Christ. It causes him to weep. Believe me
or not, it does, right? Can no one wipe away
his tears? Really? Do people have to say, oh, he's fine.
The heart of Christ is not fine when evil's glorified.
And so we're at a point in the world where
not only we need to not take part in that evil,
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we need to actually live reparation. And that's where I
propose that we live today October thirty first, as a
feast of his crucified love, living in reparation for the
mockery that happens to him directly and to his children
who are victims of evil. The problem is we breathe
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the vile air of modernism. We do not follow tradition anymore.
We do not really mean to call the name of
God in vain. It's just a slip of the tongue,
people say. But Blessed Alphonsis Liguori says, blasphemy so widespread
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in our days, is an abomination to the Lord. It's
the most deadly of all sins. It's ordinarily unpardonable, for
it's a crime of the highest magnitude that can be
committed against the Divinity, a crime that attacks God openly
and directly, a crime therefore which God rarely pardons. It's
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pretty strict. Why would we want to associate with anything
that offends God? I don't. Our Lord told sister Sister
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Mary of Saint Peter Sorry that the demons despise devotion
to his holy face, And he says, are you willing
to walk in my ways? And she said, yes, Lord
I am. He continued, cast yourself blindly into my sacred heart,
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for your badge. I give you the cross and the
thorns that lay buried within my heart. Do not turn
away from the cross nor from these thorns. Because my daughter,
you are being called to a high perfection. Think therefore
only of me, and I in return will think of you. Wow.
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Don't you want to be called to the highest perfection?
Part of that is thinking only of Christ? Right? Why
would you fill your mind with anything that is the
opposite of Christ or doesn't draw your mind to Christ.
And when we think only of Christ, he thinks only
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of us, and He provides for us. He takes care
of us. He says, attend to my affairs, as I
promise you, I will take care of yours, which is
why I wanted a place to honor His Holy Face
in my house and my heart. But if I am
attending to Him, if I'm thinking of him, if I'm
praying in reparation, then he'll do the same for me.
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He'll make sure that my mortgage is paid off before
I'm old, that I have time to return to my
life of deeper prayer. He'll make all work out. And
because she gave herself to His Holy Face consecrating her,
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Christ said, as long as you live. I want you
to look upon this day as one of the most
beautiful days of your life. By my Holy face, you
will work wonders. He said that he desired to see
his Holy face offered as the exterior object of adoration
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to all his children who would be associated in the
work of reparation for blasphemy. He invited me to make
known as Holy Face from the standpoint. Our Lord then
declared that the gift of his adorable countenance, which he
presented to me on that day, was, next to the sacraments,
one of the greatest gifts he could bestow on me.
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So beautiful Sister Mary of Saint Peter said, just as
an earthly kingdom, Jesus said, money which is stamped with
the picture of the sovereign or ruling executive of a
country procures whatever one desires to purchase. So likely wise,
in the Kingdom of Heaven, you will obtain all that
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you desire by offering the coin of my precious humanity,
which is my adorable face. So many times during the
day I'll stop before these images and say, Father, I
offer you the face of Jesus Christ for this intention, right,
for this healing, for this provision for this direction, for
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this he whatever, and so we need to use that
image of the face of Christ as a means of
intercession for peace in the world, right, for good and
holy leaders, for the protection of children. And we can
use it like money, right, just like George Washington is
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on our money. So Christ, who helps us purchase heaven
through his blood, wants us to offer that image of
His face, so radiant in beauty and so suffering, and
to offer it to the Father as we ask for
different things. Also, he particularly said this devotion to the
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Holy Face would conquer the Communists. Well, we know in Fatima,
Mary said to pray for the conversion of Russia. And
it's only when Russia converts that our Immaculate Heart will triumph.
And we've seen Russia spread her errors throughout the world.
We've even seen communism creep into our own government. And
so in reparation and an answer to this, we want
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to spread devotion to the Holy Face because it will
bring about the crushing of communism, the conversion of sinners
in particularly Russia. Right, he has commanded me, Sister Mary
of Saint Peter said to cross swords with the communists who,
as he told me were sworn enemies of the Church
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and of his Christ. He gave me to understand the
greater number of these renegades were born in the bosom
of the Church, of whom they now declare themselves the
most bitter enemies. I hold you in my hands as
an arrow, Jesus said. Now I will shoot forth my
arrow upon my enemies to combat them. I give you
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the arms of my passion, my cross, of which they
are enemies. So also to other instruments of my sufferings.
Wage war against them with the simplicity of a child,
but with the courage of a valiant warrior. For this
mission be signed with the blessing of the Father and
the Son and the Holy Spirit. The arms of my
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enemies inflict death, but mine restore life. And so he
also gave her a prayer, eternal Father, to oppose your enemies.
I offer you the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and all the instruments of his holy passion, that you
can counteract them by death, vision and discord. For your
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well beloved son has said, every kingdom divided against itself
will perish. He goes on to speak about communism, but
I'm gonna run out of time here, so I'm gonna
skip ahead. Saint Mary of Sister Mary of Saint Peter
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was not the only saint devoted to the holy face
of Christ. Saint Dismiss, gazing upon the face of Christ
next to him on the cross, was led to great
conversion right and said those words, you know, be with
me or remember me when you come into your kingdom,
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and Christ said, you will be with me in Paradise.
Saint Veronica is a great lover of the face of Christ.
In fact, when she courageously wiped his face on the
way of the cross, he imprinted that face on her
veil so that she could gaze upon it forever. Right.
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Saint Jude, when he was sent to Odessa, had that
beautiful image of the face of Christ to bring to
the king there. Saint Martin of Tours, as I spoke,
was a great intercessor for Sister Mary of Saint Peter
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and helped with the arch confraternity being founded. And she
saw that it was on his feast day that things
came together and his city of Tours, and it's just
really beautiful to see his heavenly involvement in this mission.
Saint Augustine. You know he was from three point fifty four,
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and he had a beautiful devotion to the Holy Face
right from the beginning of the foundation of the church.
What did he say, Let us return wiping away the sweat,
Let us end the weariness and the weeping, that we
may shine in Thy all satisfying face. He felt called
to approach the face of Christ and to bask in
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his gaze, to let Christ gaze on him from the image.
What a beautiful thing. Saint Augustine also said, I will
be filled with overflowing joy with Thy face, because without
thy face there would be no joy for us. And
Saint Augustine even wrote a beautiful prayer to the Holy Face,
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which I'll share with you. I present myself before thy
Holy Face, my Savior, laden with my sins and the
penalties which they have brought upon me. My sufferings are
far less than what I deserve. For although I am
conscious of the just punished of my sins, I do not,
on that account cease to commit fresh ones. Every day
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I am bowed down under thy scourges, and I do
not become better. My heart is full of bitterness and
my obstinacy in doing evil remains forever the same. My
life passes away in misery. I do not correct myself
when you chastise me. I make the best promises in
the world. As soon as you lift up your hand,
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I forget what I have promised you. I make to you,
Oh God, a sincere confession of my sins. I protest
in your presence that if you do not shall mercy
upon me, I shall be in danger of perishing. Utterly.
Grant me, my Savior, that I beg of you, although
I do not deserve it, since you have, of your
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goodness drawn me out of nothingness to put me into
a state where I can pray to you Amen. Saint
Francis of a also had a beautiful devotion to the
Holy Face, and he used to bless his friars with
a prayer about the Holy Face of God shining upon them.
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Saint Gertrude the Great also had a great devotion to
the Holy Face. One day, she had a vision of
Jesus tied to a pillar between two guards, oneed thorns
and the other a scourge. Jesus was struck on his
face and turning for relief, he was struck on the
face by the other guard. Tell me, Oh Lord, said
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Saint Gertrude, the remedy I can soothe the sufferings of
your divine face. Jesus replied, if anyone meditates on my
sufferings with tenderness and compassion, his heart will be to
me as a soothing balm for these wounds. She also said,
they shall receive in themselves, by the impression of my humanity,
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a bright irridation of My divinity, and shall be so
illuminated by it in their inmost souls that by their
likeness to my face, they shall shine with a brightness
surpassing that of many others in eternal life. That's what
Jesus said to Saint Gertrude about those who meditate on
his face, who love his face. You'll receive that imprint
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upon your heart also from Saint Gertrude. At the end
of this life, I shall see the most refulgent light
of thy excellent divinity, where thy most sweet face, with
its rose beauty, shall comfort me with its regal aspect,
illuminate with the rays from thy face, so that my
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shadows may become as noonday in thy sight. Wounds of
the body of Christ are the blemishes of the church,
while thy face says much more. Since to gaze once
it is face teaches everything. And again thy loving glance,
exceedingly benign and gracious, deigns to arrange and dispose the
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manner of my nuptials. Then call me with the clear
and harmonious voice, like unto sweet music. Behold the spouse
comes open, and unite yourself to him more intimately. Julian
of Norwich also had a lot of visions and a
great devotion to the face of Christ. She wrote, I
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saw the sweet face emaciated and bloodless with the pallor
of death. And afterwards I saw even more pale, languishing
and without life, more livid, more wan. In this way
I saw his life abandon his body. The passion of
Jesus manifests itself to me, especially through his blessed face,
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and above all through his head mouth. Saint Veronica Giuliani
suffed the stigmata with Christ. She had so many mystical gifts,
and Christ in plant imprinted upon her heart the images
of his passion about his holy face. She said. At
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some point I saw Saint Teresa Avela, as if suspended
in mid air in ecstasy. In front of her, there
was a shining angel, and he had a golden arrow
in his hand and put it in Saint Teresa's heart.
She became like a fiery furnace, consumed by love in
an instant. In the same place, close to the Lord,
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she offered herself completely to God. And it seemed that
the Lord made me understand that when she was wounded
by love in that act, she became completely detached from everything,
so much so that she did not want to know
anything about the world anymore. Detached from everything and everyone,
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she remained in God alone and did not have any
other thought except for God and her soul. This is
what we want. So God showed Veronica Giuliani the image
of this happening to Terres or therees of Avala, to
inflame her own heart to want to experience that as well,
and Christ did do that. He ended up in printing
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the image of his passion upon her heart. We too
want to gaze on these beautiful images of his face,
and we pray that through this teaching tonight, through our prayers,
our devotions, that He may pierce our hearts with arrows
of love so that they're purified and so that we
desire to gaze only upon Him Right Blessed. Basil Moreau
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also had a great devotion to the Holy Face of Christ.
He said, when you have received the picture of the
Holy Face, I ask you arrange for some special devotion
to it every day. So he was proposing that his
priests would also would also pray and have a devotion
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every day to the Holy Face. He said, it would
please me to know that those of you who have
a copy of the Holy Face, like those distributed at Rome,
pay special homage to it, as is so happily the
custom in the crypt of our conventual church. It seems
to me that this practice must be very pleasing to
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the Savior, whose sufferings for our redemption are too easily forgot. Right.
Saint Gaetano Catanso, I've never heard of him, but he
was from Italy. He was a diocesan priest, and he
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founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Saint Veronica Missionaries
of the Holy Face. Right, so we obviously had a
deep love, and he would say, the Holy Face of
Christ is my life and my strength. With Jesus, let
us turn our gaze to the abandoned children and youth
of today. Humanity is morally more morally sick than ever.
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Those are like the words I'm trying to speak tonight.
So we ask his intercession, especially for the children who
are exposed to evil or who suffer from evil, right
those who look upon evil. On Halloween. We pray that
Jesus helps us to turn our gaze to these abandoned children,
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these children whose parents or caretakers of abandoned them to evil,
and we offer them instead to gaze upon the holy
face of Christ, so that they become images of Christ,
right images of Christ. To Blessed Maria of pear And,
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Jesus said, nobody gives me a kiss of love on
my face to make amends for the kiss of Judas.
So think of every moment that you gaze upon the
face of Christ. You can almost you know, how like
when you look at someone you love, you don't even
need to give them a hug or kiss. Your eyes
can touch them. If you can gaze on the face
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of Christ with love, it's like giving him a kiss
of reparation for what Judas did. Jesus also said to her,
every time my face is contemplated, I will pour out
my love into the heart of those persons, and by
means of my Holy Face, the salvation of many souls
will be obtained. Every time you gaze upon the face
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of Christ, he pours out his love and mercy within
your heart like a fire, to purify you and to
infrain you, to teach you. Before we end, I just
wanted to very briefly touch on the devotion to the
Holy Face of Christ. Is his holy face in the
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passion right and most particularly on the veil of Veronica.
But gazing on the face of Christ from his moment
of birth to the moment of his glorification and when
he was taken up into heaven, and the ascension to
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the face of Christ that we read about in Revelation,
I forgot. I wanted to pull out that passage from Revelation,
but you'll have to do that yourself. Right. All of
that is a grace God, the Father decided to send
his word, Jesus Christ to earth incarnated, so that we
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could touch him. We could smell him, we could feel him,
we could hear him, and with our eyes we can
gaze upon him. Right. And like I said in the
podcast last week on Spiritual Warfare with Children, we become
what we look at. Right, If you allow children to
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look at evil, they're going to act evil sometimes. But
if you gaze on the face of Christ, then you'll
come to imitate that. Just like a child gazing on
a beautiful mother picks up her gestures and things right.
And gazing on the face of Christ is not just
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like humanly imprinting him upon yourself, but because he's God,
there's a mystical grace that does a transformation in us
above and beyond just the normal nature, natural way of
becoming what you contemplate. So it's very important to do.
First we see the face of Christ in Bethlehem. Imagine
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the moment that Mary gives birth to the face of
baby Jesus, and Saint Joseph is the first with her
to gaze upon that innocent, beautiful little face. We think
about that all of Christmas, and it gives us peace
and joy because the face of God does that. Imagine
the shepherds and the three Kings that come, and when
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they see that face of Christ, they fall on their
knees and they dore they worship, and that innocence of
a God made a baby is a printed upon them.
Imagine the humility and the purity of heart, the poverty,
the simplicity, the prayerfulness that they begin to imitate because
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they gaze on the infant Christ. And as Christ grows
up and he begins his ministry, we look at him
as the good shepherd. He says, how many times I
am the good shepherd? Why he wants us to look
at him that way, to see him as this carrying, strong, protective,
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loving keeper of our souls. It's easy to look at
him that way, in this image of divine mercy. Or
if you watch the Chosen, that scene of Christ with
the children, right, what a beautiful shepherd he was. And
we want to lay our heads on his chest that
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we John did, and to let him pick us up,
whether we're lost sheep, broken sheep, or just really needy sheep, right,
those who just love him so much and want to
be held. We have to allow him to care for
us and to guide us. And we need to look
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upon his face so that we know the face of
our shepherds, so that we recognize it, especially when times
get dark and confusing, right, so we know where to go.
Christ didn't want to just be on earth for thirty
three years. He wanted to leave his image here, and
so he gives us his heart. In the Eucharist, he
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imprints his very face upon the Eucharistic hoast, and we
take that host to ourselves. It's like a kiss when
we receive that presence of Christ within us, and in
adoration we sit and we gaze on the face of
Christ and the Eucharist. Rarely do we see his face
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like on a painting on the host. It's happened to people, right,
But our hearts see him and recognize him. And of
course on Calvary and on the veil of Veronica, on
the hearts of all of those, especially his mother who
watched him suffer, Christ leaves that impression of his crucified
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face that we love and we adore and we want
to repair and heal. And Christ wants to do that.
Just like Veronica Giuliani or Saint Clair of Montefalco, he
imprinted his image physically on their hearts. They found it
after their death. We asked Christ to imprint his image
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upon our hearts and then to radiate it from us
to the world. And in the resurrection his face must
have been so glorified. Mary Magdalen didn't even recognize them.
At first, every wound was glorified. Imagine the light and
the beauty. That's why I love that section. I don't
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have a Bible right here. That section of scripture that
speaks about the fiery flame that Christ's face takes on
in the Book of Revelation. That's a glorified Christ. And
we imagine his face not only when he appears in
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the Resurrection, but then he speaks those last words to
the apostles, and then he goes up into heaven in
the ascension. Imagine how grateful the people were that they
had gazed upon Christ as long as they had, because
when he was gone, their memory was full of the
image of his face. And for you and I, who
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never knew him walking on earth, somehow Christ uses love
to paint every detail of his face upon our minds
and our hearts. We don't want that image desecrated. We
want that image honored. We want, like our lady, to
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magnify the Lord. And we do that by allowing him
to press image upon us, and then to be magnified
from within us, so that others who might not want
to stop and look at the face of Christ. They're
too distracted by the world or too overwhelmed with images
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of evil, that they might encounter us. They might not
walk into a church, they might not go upstairs into
my hallway and see an image of Christ. But by
looking at me, by looking at you, they may come
to see that image of Christ who loves them, and
they can be changed. There is a special chaplet of
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the Holy Face that Christ asked be prayed. I don't
pray it often. I will tell you that, but you say,
in honor of the sense of touch, Oh Lord, our God,
my Jesus, mercy, in honor of the sense of hearing, right,
and you go through all your senses, and then you
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say from the psalms, arise O Lord, let thy enemies
be scattered, Let all that hate THEE flee before thy
Holy Face. So let's say that ten times, and we
pray that tonight, and we pray that over the rest
of our lives. Arise O Lord, let thy enemies be scattered,
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and let all that hate THEE flee before thy Holy face.
A rise O Lord, let thy enemies be scattered. Let
all that hate THEE flee before thy Holy face. Arise
O Lord, let thy enemies be scattered. Let all that
hate THEE flee before thy holy face. Arise O, Lord,
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let thy enemies be scattered. Let all that hate THEE
flee from before thy holy face. Arise O, Lord, let
thy enemies be scattered. Let all that hate THEE flee
from before thy holy face. Arise O, Lord, let thy
enemies be scattered. Let all who hate THEE flee from
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before thy holy face. Arise O, Lord, let thy enemies
be scattered. Let all who hate THEE flee from before
thy holy face. Arise O, Lord, let thy enemies be scattered.
Let all that hate THEE flee from before thy holy face.
Arise O, Lord, let thy enemies be scattered. Let all
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that hate THEE flee from before thy holy face. And
then at the end, you say, God, our Protector, look
upon us, and cast thy eyes upon the face of
thy Christ. May the thrice holy name of God overflow,
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overthrow all their plans. May the Holy Name of the
Living God split them up by disagreements. May the terrible
Name of God of Eternity stamp out all of their godlessness. Amen,
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I was just looking to see. Then they have a
whole special mass. It's not in there. I was looking
to see if it was that Book of Revelation. There's
a special mass in honor of the Holy Face that
would be beautiful if you're priests listening to us, that
you find it and that you offer it in reparation
for the sins of blasphemy in the world. Souls that
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are devoted to reparation are devoted to peace. They are
the peacemakers. Blessed are the peacemakers right. And Christ is
asking us to gaze upon His face, to grow in
love for his Holy Face, to honor it, to adore it,
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not only so that we become holy, but as acts
of adoration and reparation to bring peace to this world.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and
to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning,
is now and ever shall be world without end Aimen, Alleluia.
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Thank you for being with me tonight, Gabbie with you.
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Hello, God's Beloved. I'm Annabel Moseley, author, professor of theology,
and host of then Sings My Soul and Destination Sainthood
on WCAT Radio. I invite you to listen in and
find inspiration along this sacred journey we're traveling together to
make our lives a masterpiece and with God's grace, become saints.
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Join me Annabel Moseley for then sings My Soul and
Nation Sainthood on WCAT Radio. God bless you. Remember you
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Please join us in our mission of evangelization, and don't forget.
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