NOVENA OF REPARATION IN HONOR OF THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS

(FEAST: TUESDAY BEFORE ASH WEDNESDAY)

Holy Face of Jesus Center & Convent 1111 F. R. Hidalgo Street, Quiapo 1001 Manila, Philippines Tel. No.: (02)735-9717

WITH ECCLESIASTICAL APPROVAL

Given in Manila, 6th day of November 2013

SIXTH DAY All kneel All: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. O Saving Victim (Song) O Saving Victim opning wide The gate of heaven to men below Our foes press on from every side Your aid supply, your strength bestow. To your great name be endless praise. Immortal God-head, one in Three; Oh, grant us endless length of days In our true native land with Thee. Amen. Leader: Arise, O Lord, and let Your enemies be scattered. People: And let them that hate You, flee before Your Holy Face. Leader: Behold, O God, our Protector. People: And look on the Face of Your Christ. Leader: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. People: As it was in the beginning, is now and will be forever. Amen. All: May the Most Holy, Most Sacred, Most Adorable, Most Incomprehensible, and ineffable Name of God be forever praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in heaven and on earth by all the creatures of God, and by the Most Holy Face of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen. Leader: Behold, O God, our Protector; People: And look on the Face of Your Christ.
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All: We beseech You O Almighty and Merciful God; grant us and all who venerate the Countenance of Your dearly beloved Son all disfigured by our sins the grace to behold It throughout eternity in the glory of Its majesty through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. THE ROSARY OF REPARATION: SORROWFUL MYSTERIES (Tuesdays & Fridays) THE AGONY: Holy Face of my Saviour, inclined towards earth, under the weight of the worlds sins, remove all pride and hardness from our hearts. THE FLAGELLATION: Adorable Face of Jesus, disfigured under the executioners blows, restore in my soul which is contemplating You, the wounds of sin which blemish and deface it. THE CROWING WITH THORNS: Adorable Face of my Saviour, concealed and covered with spittle, crowned with thorns and bruised with blows, deliver me from all the traces which sin has left in me. THE CARRYING OF THE CROSS: Adorable Face of my Saviour, may my soul be marked, with Your humiliations, in order that one day I may shine in Your Glory. THE CRUCIFIXION: Before Your Face, Jesus, the sun veils itself, the earth is covered with darkness. Grant that Your light may shine upon us, so that we may believe in Your Love which saves us. Hail Holy Queen/ Pray for us/ O God whose only begotten Son..

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN (Prayer of Leo Papin Dupont, the Holy Man of Tours) O Mary, Virgin most holy, I place myself under your protection, and through you I throw myself with confidence into the arms of divine mercy; to you I commit all the moments of my life and above all the hour of my death, I commit to you my body and my soul and all that belongs to me. Kindly receive once more my troubles and my fears, my consolations and my hope, so that by your powerful protection and your merits, I may have in all my actions, for one only and unique end your good pleasure and the holy will of your divine Son. PRAYER TO THE HOLY VIRGIN (To obtain the grace to live in union with Jesus redeeming Passion) The sorrowful Mother was in tears standing beside the Cross on which her Son hung. Into her weeping, broken heart, the sword was pierced. How sad and afflicted was the Mother blessed above all, the Mother of the only Son! How she suffered, how stricken she was, the tender Mother, in contemplating her divine Son tormented! Who could contemplate the sorrowful Mother of Christ without suffering like her? For the sins of all His people, she saw Him in His torments, suffering the blows of the whip. She saw her most dear child dying in desolation, while He gave up His spirit. Please, O Mother, source of love, make me to feel your sufferings so that I may weep with you. O holy Mother, help to engrave the Crucifieds wounds deeply in my heart! As a good son, may I weep with you all the days of my life!

All stand HOLY FACE SONG Oh Face Divine of Jesus in ages long ago Prophets and sages prayed that Thou On earth thy light would show Most Holy Face I cry to Thee Like them that thy beams may see Most Holy Face I cry to Thee. (2x) Oh suffering Face of Jesus Bleeding, soiled and torn Thy temple and thy brow transpierced With many a cruel thorns Most Holy Face I cry to Thee Offer thy wounds to God for me Most Holy Face I cry to Thee. (2x) Oh dying Face of Jesus Oh that redeeming tree Crying aloud, Oh why my God Hast Thou forsaken me Most Holy Face I cry to Thee Plead by Thine agony for me Most Holy Face I cry to Thee (2x) Oh Glorious Face of Jesus If after I have died My soul but in Thy likeness make I shall be satisfied Most Holy Face I cry to Thee More like thee ever make thou me Most Holy Face I cry to Thee. (2x)

MEDITATION ON THE PASSION AND DEATH OF THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS SIXTH DAY THE HOLY FACE IN THE PRAETORIUM OF PILATE All kneel All: Lord, I desire to search again for Your Face; so do not push me far away from it on account of my sins; do not take Your Holy Spirit away from me. Let the light of Your Face shine upon me; instruct me in the way of Your commandments. All be seated Leader: Pilates Praetorium was for Our Lord the bloody place of two equally ignominious and cruel tortures, the flagellation and the crowning with thorns. I. SUFFERINGS OF JESUS. The whips of the executioners who were scourging Jesus did not spare His sweet and lovable Face; He was furrowed in all ways, bruised, stained with blood, torn by the rods. Then seeing that Jesus was condemned to death because He called Himself King, the soldiers made this title a subject of bitter derision and sacrilegious mockeries. They threw a purple mantle over His shoulders, they put a reed in His hands in the guise of a scepter, and by a refinement of unheard malice, they made a crown with thorns, which they intertwined and forced down upon His Forehead with heavy blows. The long, hard, sharp thorns penetrated deeply into the Saviours Head, causing Him atrocious pains, and inundated His Holy Face with trickles of blood. II JESUS HUMILIATION. It was in this pitiable state that Pilate presented Jesus to the people, hoping to arouse their compassion and to deliver Him. Behold the Man he said. This sight served only to inflame their fury: Crucify Him! Crucify Him! they cried out.
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Shall I crucify your king? We have no other king but Caesar: we do not wish Him to rule over us. The Saviours enemies triumph. Amongst that crowd there were many whom He had loaded with blessings, who perhaps in secret called themselves His disciples and His friends; none of them raised a voice to declare themselves as His disciple and defend Him; no one dared to recognize Him as his king and his God. This shameful abandonment, joined to other outrages, was a painful martyrdom for Jesus: My people, what have I done to you? Why do you outrage the Face of your Saviour? Why have you crowned Me with a diadem of thorns? III. HONOUR DUE TO JESUS. It is not without a profound mystery that this divine Saviour was thus crowned; He must reign. The soldiers, without doubting it, attested Jesus Christs royalty as well as Pilate; without knowing it, they enter into Gods designs, who desires that His Son may be recognized as king and receive with the title the homage of all creatures. Yes, O Jesus, by the diadem which crowns Your Head, you have acquired the right to reign over my heart; this diadem of ignominy and pain is a crown of expiation and love. Many times I have disowned Your royalty in despising Your holy law and Your divine teachings; many times I have caused Your Blood to flow upon Your august Face in pressing in the thorns which pierce Your Forehead by my re-iterated faults; I have run after the joys of this world and crowned myself with roses; I have aspired to slack merry-making of an easy and pleasant life with our dreaming that I was the subject of a king crowned with thorns. No, O good Master, I do not wish that You may suffer more the thorns of my iniquities; I desire to please you by my homage, to adorn You with the flowers of my virtues, and cause You to triumph in me by generous love which may be worthy of You. ACT OF OFFERING O Jesus, my king and my God, here is my soul with its thoughts, my heart with its affections, my will with its
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aspirations! Here is my spirit and my body; I place myself entirely under Your rule; reign over me forever. VIRTUE TO PRACTICE By mortification make all desires and unlawful tendencies to die in you, those which might offend Our Lord and in some manner to renew His sufferings. SPIRITUAL BOUQUET Should a subject be sensual and fastidious under a Head crowned with thorns? All kneel All: I have prayed before your Face with my whole Heart (Psalm 118:58): have pity on me according to your promise. Let the light of Your Face shine upon me in Your mercy, Lord, I shall not be confounded, because I have called upon You. All powerful and merciful God, grant, we beg of You, that in venerating the Face of Your Christ, disfigured in His Passion because of our sins, we may merit to contemplate It eternally, in the light of celestial glory, through the same Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen. INVOCATIONS TO THE HOLY FACE Leader: O Jesus, whose adorable Face Mary and Joseph worshipped with profoundest reverence, People: * Have mercy on us. (Response after each invocation) Leader: O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the masterpiece of the Holy Spirit, in which the Father was well pleased,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face ravished with joy the angels, shepherds and Magi in the stable of Bethlehem,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face wounded with a dart of love the aged Simeon and the Prophetess Anna in the temple,*
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O Jesus, whose adorable Face was bathed in tears in your Holy Infancy,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face at the age of twelve astonished doctors in the temple,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face is white with purity and ruddy with charity,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face is more beautiful than the sun, brighter than the moon and more brilliant than the stars,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face is lovelier than the roses of spring,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face is more precious than gold, silver, and gems,* O Jesus, the charms and grace of whose adorable Face win all hearts,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face is most noble in Its heavenly features,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the admiration of angels,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the sweet delight of the Saints,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was the delight of Your Virgin-Mother and Your holy father St. Joseph,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the ineffable mirror of divine perfections,* O Jesus, the modesty and mildness of whose adorable Face attracted both just and sinners,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face appeases the divine wrath,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the terror of the evil spirits,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the treasures of graces and blessings,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was exposed to the inclemency of the weather in the desert,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was scorched by the sun and bathed in sweat on Your journeys,* O Jesus, the expression of whose adorable Face is wholly divine,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face gave a holy kiss and blessing to the little children,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face sorrowed and wept at the grave of Lazarus,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was brilliant as the sun and radiant with glory on Mount Tabor,*
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O Jesus, whose adorable Face is worthy of all reverence, veneration and worship,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face grew sad at the sight of Jerusalem when You did weep over that ungrateful city,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was bowed to the earth in the garden of Olives because of our sins,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was bathed in bloody sweat,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was kissed by Judas the traitor,* O Jesus, the power of whose adorable Face smote the soldiers to the ground in the garden of Olives,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was struck by a vile servant, derided by enemies and desecrated by their unholy hands,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was defiled with spittle and bruised by blows,* O Jesus, the divine look of whose adorable Face wounded Peters heart with repentant sorrow and love,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was humbled for us before the tribunals of Jerusalem,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face preserved Its serenity and dignity when Pilate pronounced the death sentence,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was covered with bloody sweat which fell to the ground under the Cross,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face the pious Veronica wiped on the way to Calvary,* O Jesus, the eyes of whose adorable Face shed tears of blood,* O Jesus, the mouth of whose adorable Face was tormented with vinegar and gall,* O Jesus, the hair and beard of whose adorable Face were plucked out by the executioners,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was disfigured like to that of a leper,* O Jesus, the incomparable beauty of whose adorable Face was disfigured by the sins of the world,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was overcast by the mournful shadows of death,*
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O Jesus, whose adorable Face was washed, anointed and wrapped in a shroud by Mary and the holy women,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was laid to rest in the grave,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was resplendent in beauty on the day of Your resurrection,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face was radiant in glory on the day of Your ascension,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face will appear in the clouds at the end of the world with great power and majesty,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face will be the terror of sinners,* O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the joy of the just in heaven,* Leader: The light of Your Face has been shed upon us People: You have given joy to our hearts All: O powerful and merciful God, grant us to see forever beaming with glory the Face of our Lord Jesus Christ which we honor here below all disfigured in His Passion by our sins, through the same Jesus Christ. Amen. SALUTATIONS TO THE HOLY FACE IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR People: Hail! O Adorable Face present in the Sacrament more resplendent than the sun. Hail! You noble seal of the divinity, You mirror of divine perfections! With all the powers of my soul, I turn to You, O Jesus, and humbly pray to You, to imprint upon our hearts, all the features of Your Divine Countenance. Amen. BLESSING The Lord bless us, and keep us; The Lord show His Face to us, and have mercy on us; The Lord turn His Countenance to us, and give us peace. Amen.
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BANAL NA MUKHA AY ITATANGHAL (Himig: AtingPangarap) Ang banal na Mukha ay ating itanghal Sa puso ng lahat na kanyang nilalang. Siyay ating pag-asa, sandigan sa dusa Laging naghihintay at nag-aanyaya. Kung ikaw ay dudulog sa Kanya tuwina Buhay mo ay sasaya, di ka magdurusa. Kay ganda ng buhay, huwag nating sayangin Di lang natin alam may nagmamahal din. Ang banal Niyang Mukhay itanghal natin Sapagkat itoy daan ng kapayapaan. Sinumang may nais sa Kanyay sumunod Dalhin mo ang krus at sundan si Jesus. BENEDICTION LET US RAISE OUR VOICE Let us raise our voice To proclaim our faith Christ the Lord for us has died, Dying, He destroyed our death, Rising, He restored our life, O Lord Jesus, we await Your last return in glory. When we eat the bread And we drink the cup
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In the Blessed Eucharist, We meet You, Our risen Saviour, Giving life to us anew, Through lifes journey, be with us To strengthen us forever. Amen V. You have given them bread from heaven. (Alleluia) R. The source of all happiness. (Alleluia) LET US PRAY: Lord God, by the paschal mystery of the death and resurrection of Your only Son You accomplished the work of mans redemption. Full of trust, we proclaim that paschal mystery in the sacramental signs of the Eucharist. Help us to see ever growing in us the fruits of Your saving work through Christ our Lord. Amen. THE DIVINE PRAISES All: Blessed be God Blessed be His Holy Name Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man Blessed be the Name of Jesus Blessed be His most Sacred Heart Blessed be His most Precious Blood Blessed be Jesus in the most holy Sacrament of the altar Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception Blessed be her glorious Assumption Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother Blessed be St. Joseph, her most Chaste spouse Blessed be God in His angels and in His saints

(The Blessed Sacrament is returned to the tabernacle)

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O SACRAMENT MOST HOLY O Sacrament, Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, All praise and all thanksgiving Be every moment Thine.

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