Holy Face Novena: Day 7

...and First Saturday...

(Console Holy Face and recite Daily Preparatory Prayer).(p.l)

Psalm 51,14-15.

Give me again the joy of your help,

with a spirit of fervour sustain me,

that I may teach transgressors your ways

and sinners may return to you.

Lord Jesus! After contemplating Thy features, disfigured

by grief, after meditating upon Thy passion with compunction

and love, how can our hearts fail to be inflamed with a holy

hatred of sin, which even now outrages Thy Adorable Face!

Lord, suffer us not to be content with mere compassion, but

give us grace so closely to follow Thee in this Calvary, so

that the approbrium destined for Thee may fall on us, 0

Jesus, that thus we may have a share, small though it may

be, in expiation of sin. Amen. Mary, our Mother, intercede

for us. Saint Joseph pray for us.

Through the merits of your precious blood and your Holy

Face, O Jesus, grant us our petition.................. Pardon

and mercy. 

Prayer in Honour of Mary

Hail Mary, Daughter of God the Father! Hail Mary, Mother

of God the Son! Hail Mary, Spouse of the Holy Spirit! Hail

Mary, Temple of the Most Holy Trinity! Hail Mary, our

mistress, our wealth, our mystic rose. Queen of our hearts,

our Mother, our life, our sweetness and our dearest hope!

We are all Thine, and all we have is Thine. O Virgin blessed

above all things, may Thy soul be in us to magnify the Lord;

may Thy spirit be in us to rejoice in God. Place Thyself, 0

faithful Virgin, as a seal upon our hearts, that in Thee and

through Thee we may be found faithful to God. Grant, most

gracious Virgin, that we may be numbered among those

whom Thou art pleased to love, to teach and to guide, to

favour and to protect as Thy children. Grant that with the help

of Thy love, we may despise all earthly consolation and cling

to heavenly things, until through the Holy Spirit, Thy faithful

spouse, and through Thee, His faithful spouse, Jesus Christ,

Thy Son, be formed within us for the glory of the Father.

Amen. (St. Grignon de Montfort)

Pray one (1) Our Father, three (3) Hail Mary's, one (1)

Glory Be.

O Bleeding Face, O Face Divine, be every adoration Thine.

(Three times)

....at the Foot of the Cross:  

Mary his mother, John the Beloved Apostle, Mary Magdalene and the 'other women'...

Rev. 12:6.  Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished...

                “In the Beginning He made them male and female.” -Genesis

His Mother remained beneath the Cross.  The Gold Medallion of the High Priest is still being tarnished.  It takes no intelligence to understand how ‘woman’ is denigrated everywhere--abused, beaten, raped, humiliated, murdered, used.  Christ our High Priest bent down and wrote in the sand...and they all went away beginning with the eldest.

                       “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.”

          *How hard today for even children to believe such a thing ever to be possible.*