He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was
despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed
him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement
that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep
have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD
has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah
53, 4-6)
The Most Holy Face of Jesus - what a tremendous gift given to us by our Heavenly Father! Happy are those who hear His message. Happier and more blessed indeed are those who act upon it! Our Lord said, "When I return, will there be faith on Earth?" We have been given an awesome opportunity by our Heavenly Father, the Devotion to the Most Holy Face of Jesus, His Beloved Son with whom He was so well pleased.
To promote this devotion, the Holy Face Association was established in Montreal, Canada on May 26, 1976. The goal of this apostolate is reparation to God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) through contemplative devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus. This is accomplished through the diffusion of Holy Face pictures, leaflets and medals throughout the world. The apostolate recalls the words of St. Paul "that Christ crucified must be preached ." This is not just another devotion - it is a plea from God. Promises of Our Lord Jesus Christ to those devoted to His Holy Face:
These inestimable promises are drawn from the works of St. Gertrude, of St. Mechtilde, and from the writings of Sister Maria de Saint-Pierre, a Carmelite who died at Tours, France in the odour of sanctity.
This is a copy of a letter created by Our Lord Jesus Christ for Saints Matilda, Bridget and Elizabeth (of Hungary) who had asked Him detailed questions about His scourging before He was crucified. It is called "The Oration" and was found in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, circa the late 1800's. It is preserved in a silver box in the Vatican, starting with Pope Leo XIII in Rome on April 5, 1890. The letter records the actual Words of Christ when He appeared
to the above saints.
Consecrating the Drops of Blood which Our Lord lost on His way to Calvary : "I descended from heaven to the earth in order to convert you. In olden times, people were religious and their harvests were abundant; at present, on the contrary, they are scanty. If you want to reap an abundant harvest you must not work on Sunday, for on Sunday you must go to Church and pray to God to forgive your sins. He gave you six days in which to work and one for rest and devotion and to tender your help to the poor and assist the Church. Those people, who brawl against my religion and cast slurs on this Sacred Letter, shall be forsaken by me. On the contrary, those people who shall carry a copy of this letter with them shall be free from death by drowning and from sudden death. They shall be free from all contagious diseases and lightning; they shall not die without confession, and shall be free from their enemies and from the hand of wrongful authority, and from all their slanderers and false witnesses. Women in peril at child-birth will, by keeping this Oration about them, immediately overcome the difficulty. In the house where this Oration is kept no evil thing will ever happen: and forty days before the death of a person who has this Oration about him or her, the Blessed Virgin will appear to him or her. So said St. Gregorius. To all those faithful who shall recite for 3 years, each day 2 Our Fathers, Hail Marys and Glory Be's, in honor of the drops of blood I lost, I will concede the following 5 graces:: 1.- The plenary indulgence and remittance of your sins. 2.- You will be free from the pains of Purgatory. 3.- If you should die before completing the said 3 years, for you it will be the same as if you had completed them. 4.- It will be upon your death the same as if you had shed all your blood for the Holy Faith. 5.- I will descend from Heaven to take your soul and that of your relatives, until the fourth generation. Be it know that the number of armed soldiers were 150; those who trailed me while I was bound were 23. The executioners of justice were 83; the blows received on my head were 150; those on my stomach, 108; kicks on my shoulders, 80. I was led, bound with cords by the hair, 24 times; spits in the face were 180; I was beaten on the body 6666 times; beaten on the head, 110 times. I was roughly pushed, and at 12 o'clock was lifted up by the hair; pricked with thorns and pulled by the beard 23 times; received 20 wounds on the head; thorns of marine junks, 72; pricks of thorns in the head, 110; mortal thorns in the forehead, 3. I was afterwards flogged and dressed as a mocked king; wounds in the body, 1000. The soldiers who led me to the Calvary were 608; those who watched me were 3, and those who mocked me were 1008; the drops of blood which I lost were 28,430." Benedtta DA S.S, Pope Leo XIII, in Roma 5 Aprile 1890
Words from Our Lord Jesus Christ to Sister Faustina:
¿And what does this powerful instrument from Divine Mercy consist
of?
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These are the
days of Divine Love and Divine Mercy. We have been given a remedy for these
days in which there is such a great lack of faith. We have been shown through
a holy nun, Mother Pierina, how we can receive this great gift of faith
and fortitude as well as other important graces. This message is for simple
souls:
"Unless you become like a little child, you cannot enter into
the Kingdom of Heaven.".
