Prayer to the Holy Face of Christ

Prayer to the Holy Face of Christ

O sweet Jesus who in thy Passion became the man of sorrows and reproach.  I worship, honor and glorify thy Holy Face which shown with Divine Beauty and Innocence. I am thankful that your Divine Love and Light was in the world, and is upon the world today. 

Thy tears, in which you shed for our sake and for the salvation of all souls, let them become the Tears of My Pennants and let them redeem souls that worth of thee. 

Dear Lord I bow to your will and to the sacred will of our Holy Father for the greater good of all souls and all life upon the earth. I pray Holy Lord that I may see your beautiful face in the moments of my death and that you would allow me kind admittance into the Glorious Kingdom of God where I may honor, glorify and bless thee with thy Angels and Saints forever and ever onto eternity. Amen. 

Prayer of St Therese to the Holy Face of Jesus

“O Jesus, who, in Thy cruel Passion didst become the ‘reproach of men and the Man of Sorrows,’ I worship Thy divine Face. Once it shone with the beauty and sweetness of the Divinity; but now, for my sake, it is become as ‘the face of a leper.’

Yet, in that disfigured Countenance, I recognize Thy infinite love, and I am consumed with the desire of making Thee loved by all mankind.

The tears that flowed so abundantly from Thy Eyes are to me as precious pearls that I delight to gather, that with their worth I may ransom the souls of poor sinners.

O Jesus, whose Face is the sole beauty that ravishes my heart, I may not see here below the sweetness of Thy glance, nor feel the ineffable tenderness of Thy kiss, I bow to Thy Will, but I pray Thee to imprint in me Thy divine likeness, and I implore Thee so to inflame me with Thy love, that it may quickly consume me, and that I may soon reach the vision of Thy glorious Face in heaven. Amen.