sixth day: novena of reparation in honor of the holy face of jesus

8/12/2019 SIXTH DAY: NOVENA OF REPARATION IN HONOR OF THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS

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NOVENA OF REPARATION

IN HONOR OF THE

HOLY FACE OF JESUS

(FEAST: TUESDAY BEFORE ASH WEDNESDAY)

Holy Face of Jesus Center & Convent1111 F. R. Hidalgo Street, Quiapo

1001 Manila, PhilippinesTel. No.: (02)735-9717



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WITH ECCLESIASTICAL APPROVAL

Given in Manila, 6th

day of November 2013



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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 op’ning 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, MostIncomprehensible, 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 world’s sins, remove all pride and hardness

from our hearts.

THE FLAGELLATION: Adorable Face of Jesus, disfigured under

the executioner’s 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 shineupon us, so that we may believe in Your Love which saves us.

Hail Holy Queen…/ Pray for us…/ O God whose only begotten Son..



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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 transpiercedWith many a cruel thorns


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


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 makeI shall be satisfied


More like thee ever make thou me

Most Holy Face I cry to Thee. (2x)



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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: Pilate’s 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

“K ing”, 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 Saviour’s 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 Saviour’s 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. Thesoldiers, without doubting it, attested Jesus Christ’s royalty as well as

Pilate; without knowing it, they enter into God’s 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 thethorns 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 (Psalm118:58): 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 Peter’s 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 bythe 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 usPeople: 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.

Siya’y 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 Mukha’y itanghal natin

Sapagkat ito’y daan ng kapayapaan.

Sinumang may nais sa Kanya’y sumunod

Dalhin mo ang krus at sundan si Jesus.

BENEDICTION

LET US RAISE OUR VOICE

Let us raise our voice

To proclaim our faithChrist 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 life’s 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 man’s redemption. Full of

trust, we proclaim that paschal mystery in the sacramental signs of theEucharist. 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 ConceptionBlessed 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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