The Holy Face & Work of Reparation
Prayers from the Series on Sister Mary of St. Peter
Episode 1 — The Golden Arrow
Prayer
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible 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.
Source
Dorothy Scallan, ed., The Golden Arrow, 225–226.
Episode 2 — Offering of the Holy Face
Prayer
Eternal Father, turn away Your angry gaze from our guilty people whose face has become unsightly in Your eyes. Look instead upon the Face of Your Beloved Son, for this is the Face of Him in Whom You are well pleased. We now offer You this Holy Face, covered with shame and disfigured by bloody bruises in reparation for the crimes of our age in order to appease Your anger, justly provoked against us. Because Your divine Son, our Redeemer, has taken upon His Head all the sins of His members, that they might be spared, we now beg of You, Eternal Father, to grant us mercy. Amen.
Source
Dorothy Scallan, ed., The Golden Arrow, 227.
Episode 3 — Salutation to the Holy Face
Prayer
I salute you, I adore you, and I love you, O adorable Face of my beloved Jesus, as the noble stamp of the Divinity. Completely surrendering my soul to you, I most humbly beg you to stamp this seal upon us all, so that the image of God may once more be reproduced by its imprint in our souls. Amen.
Source
Dorothy Scallan, ed., The Golden Arrow, 228.
Episode 4 — Offering of the Holy Face for Reparation
Prayer
O Eternal Father, since it has pleased our Divine Saviour to reveal to mankind in our present century the power residing in His Holy Face, we now avail ourselves of this treasure in our great needs. Since our Saviour Himself promised that by offering to You, O Eternal Father, the Holy Face disfigured in the Passion, we can procure the settlement of all the affairs of our household, and that nothing whatsoever will be refused us, we now come before Your throne.
Offering to You, O God, this adorable Countenance, disfigured with painful bruises and covered with shame and confusion, we beg through the merits of this Holy Face to obtain these our most pressing needs.
Grant us pardon, Eternal Father, for the worst crimes of our age, which are atheism, blasphemy, and the desecration of Your holy days.
Avert from us destruction by war and its consequences. May this offering of the Holy Face of our Saviour before Your throne obtain for us deliverance from these evils.
Send us, O God, zealous and enlightened laborers, that by their prayers, their works, and their sacrifices, they may spread the blessings of Your Church and confound Your enemies. Amen.
Source
Dorothy Scallan, ed., The Golden Arrow, 229.
Episode 5
Promises of Our Lord — Devotion to the Holy Face
These are drawn from the revelations to Sister Mary of St. Peter and preserved in The Golden Arrow.
Those who honor My Face in a spirit of reparation will, by doing so, fulfill the role of the pious Veronica. According to the care they take in repairing My Face disfigured by blasphemers, so will I take care of their souls disfigured by sin. My Face is the seal of the Divinity, and it has the power to reproduce the image of God in souls.
Those who defend this work of reparation, whether by word, prayer, or writing, I will defend before My Father and will give them My Kingdom.
By offering My Face to My Eternal Father, nothing will be refused, and the conversion of many sinners will be obtained.
By My Holy Face, they will work wonders, appease the anger of God, and draw down mercy upon sinners.
As in a kingdom one obtains what is desired with a coin stamped with the king’s image, so in the Kingdom of Heaven they will obtain what they desire with the precious coin of My Holy Face.
Those who contemplate the wounds of My Face on earth will behold it radiant with glory in Heaven.
They will receive in their souls a constant irradiation of My Divinity, and by their likeness to My Face they will shine with particular splendor in Heaven.
I will defend them, preserve them, and assure them of final perseverance.
Source
Dorothy Scallan, ed., The Golden Arrow: The Autobiography and Revelations of Sister Mary of St. Peter (1816–1848) on Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus (Charlotte, NC: TAN Books, 2012), 233.
Episode 7 — Response in Daily Life
Prayer
Lord Jesus, in the life that has already been given to me, do not let me pass through it without response. In what is ordinary, teach me to be attentive. In what is difficult, teach me to offer it. In what would normally go unnoticed, draw me back to You.
I bring this present moment to You as it is. I do not set it aside or wait for something different. I ask that it become something real, something given, and something directed.
Let what is small be enough, if it is offered. Let what is hidden be seen by You. And let this moment not pass without response.
Amen.
Source
Derived from Episode 7 closing synthesis.
Episode 8 — Return to the Golden Arrow
Prayer
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible 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.
Source
Dorothy Scallan, ed., The Golden Arrow, 226.