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HOPE: Hold on to the great truths of the Faith...Own your challenging affliction...Persevere...Expect God's providence and intervention... ~Johnette Benkovich, Woman of Grace
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, help those especially in need of thy mercy. - OL of Fatima
Prescription #1: Give God the greatest possible glory and honor Him with your whole soul. If you have a sin on your conscience, remove it as soon as possible by means of a good Confession. ~St. John Bosco
Prescription #2: In thankful tenderness offer Reparation for the horrible mockery and blasphemies constantly uttered against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; against the Blessed Virgin Mary; the saints and angels; His Church; His priests and religious; His children; and His loving Heart by reciting the Golden Arrow which delightfully wounds Him:
'May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable and ineffable Name of God be forever praised, blessed, loved, and honored by all the creatures of God in heaven, on earth and in the hells through the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament of the altar. Amen.
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Monday, July 8, 2013

The Golden Arrow

Sr. Marie of St. Peter and of the Holy Family OCD received the devotion to the Holy Face July 8 in the 1840s at the Tours Carmelite Monastery...for reparation...
                                holy face
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Quotations from Sister Saint Pierre Carmelite of Tours


  • "He told me that He wished to give me a "Golden Arrow" wherewith to wound His Heart delightfully, and heal those wounds inflicted by sinner's malice."


  • "He has given it to me as a "Golden Arrow," assuring me that each time I would say it, I would open His Heart with a wound of love."


  • "At that moment it seemed to me I beheld issuing from the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced by this "Arrow," torrents of graces for the conversion of sinners."


  • "Our Lord has promised me that He will imprint His divine likeness on the souls of those who honour his most holy Countenance."


  • "All those who honour My Holy Face in a spirit of reparation, will be so doing perform the office of the pious Veronica."


  • "According to the care you take in making reparation to My Face disfigured by blasphemies, so will I take care of yours which has been disfigured by sin. I will reprint therein My image and render it as beautiful as it was on leaving the Baptismal font."


  • "Our Lord has promised me, that all those who defend His cause in this work of reparation, by words, by prayers, or in writing. He will defend them before His Father; at their death He will purify their souls by effacing all the blots of sin and will restore to them their primitive beauty.
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  • Sister Marie of Saint Pierre (from the Carmel of Tours) and the Golden Arrow 
  • In Tours, France during the 1840's a young Carmelite nun, Sister Marie of Saint Pierre, received a series of revelations from Our Lord about a powerful devotion He wished to be established worldwide - the devotion to his Holy Face. The express purpose of this devotion was to make reparation for the blasphemies and outrages of 'Revolutionary men' (the Communists), as well as for the blasphemies of atheists and freethinkers and others, plus, for blasphemy and the profanation of Sundays by Christians.
    This devotion is also an instrument given to the individual devotee as a seemingly unfailing method of appealing to God in prayer - through adoration of His Holy Face and Name.
    The following prayer was dictated by our Lord Himself to Sister Marie of Saint Pierre. Opening His Heart to her, our Saviour complained of blasphemy, saying that this frightful sin wounds His Divine Heart more grievously than all other sins, for it was like a "poisoned arrow".
    After that, our Saviour dictated the following prayer, which he called "The Golden Arrow", saying that those who would recite this prayer would pierce Him delightfully, and also heal those other wounds inflicted on Him by the malice of sinners. This prayer is regarded as the very basis of the Work of Reparation.

                                     The Golden Arrow Prayer

    "May the most holy, most sacred,
    most adorable, most mysterious
    and unutterable Name of God
    be 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."
    Amen

    "Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Adorable Face of Thy Beloved Son for the honor and glory of Thy Holy Name, for the conversion of sinners and the salvation of dying souls."
    -- Sister Saint-Pierre
    "O Jesus, who in Thy bitter Passion didst become "the most abject of men, a man of sorrows", I venerate Thy Sacred Face whereon there once did shine the beauty and sweetness of the Godhead; but now it has become for me as if it were the face of a leper! Nevertheless, under those disfigured features, I recognize Thy infinite Love and I am consumed with the desire to love Thee and make Thee loved by all men.
    The tears which well up abundantly in Thy sacred eyes appear to me as so many precious pearls that I love to gather up, in order to purchase the souls of poor sinners by means of their infinite value. O Jesus, whose adorable face ravishes my heart, I implore Thee to fix deep within me Thy divine image and to set me on fire with Thy Love, that I may be found worthy to come to the contemplation of Thy glorious Face in Heaven.  Amen."   ~St. Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face
    Psalm 30:20-21
    "O how great is the multitude of Thy sweetness, O Lord, which Thou hast hidden for them that fear Thee! Which Thou hast wrought for them that hope in Thee, in the sight of the sons of men. Thou shalt hide them in the secret of Thy Face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in Thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues."

  •  Picture taken by tantumergo(A Blog for Dallas Area Catholics)-thanks for this picture.
  • Carmelite Monastery of Infant Jesus of Prague and St. Joseph-Dallas TX - where the Gardener meets you with 'clear water'....
  • This chapel is also a Shrine to the Holy Face.  To the side of the altar is the Holy Face Icon which reflects the Confraternity of the Holy Face.  It was in this chapel before the Holy Face on March 6, 2005 that I became a confraternity member.  The chapel is so beautiful now.  In my heart I still see the bare white walls and St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross flying from the walls above the altar--simpler times.  My greatest blessings were before that Holy Face.  I still see Mother Mary Regina (I know it was her.) kneeling behind the grate as my name and my mother's were added to the roll.  It was in 2006 that I received a double blessing from Fr. Louis...little did I know of its import.
  • I don’t think we can imagine how much good their lives of prayer, sacrifice, suffering, and love do for all of us. 
     Tantumergo: A Blog for Dallas Catholics
  • I so miss the 'turn' ,Mothers.
  • Mother Juanita: I would not have survived the brutal North Face high cold winds of the mountain without those afternoons with you in my memories.  There have been mostly tears here in this great exile.
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