The Holy Face

Friends have been inspired recently by the Holy Face devotion.  I came across these paragraphs in reference to St Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face.  ‘Saint Therese was introduced to the devotion by Sister Agnes of Jesus. She studied it in a personal way …. She did this principally at the time of her father’s illness. She signed her name for the first time as “Sister Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face” the day she received the habit on January 10, 1889. Before her death on September 30, 1897, after she was taken to her infirmary bed, she “pinned her favorite holy pictures on the brown curtains surrounding her bed…The Holy Face of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin, her `dear’ Theophane Venard…” …

One year after Saint Therese’s death in 1898, the photographer Secondo Pia took the first photos of the Holy Shroud of Turin and made an incredible discovery. The dark yellow shadows visible on the linen cloth turned out to be a photographic negative — when on the negatives the photographer developed, the “positive” image of a man who underwent incredible sufferings appeared. He realized that the image on the shroud was not a painting, not a forgery, but a supernatural photo, created in the moment of His glorious resurrection.’

[courtesy of carmelitesofboston.org.]

Intercessions

Pope Leo as he undergoes an operation

Cancer: Brian Davis, Bernard (and wife Angela caring for him), Catherine, Alex (43 with five children), Theresa K, Elena

Ivy – sick child

Brian (recovering from Pneumonia)

Kevin (heart attack)

William Gove (in recovery)

Illness:  Katy Keeling, Noreen

David OCDS – housebound

Grace – troubling ailments, job difficulties, family (deceased mother and health of father)

Mark – brain infection

Michael, Kira – vulnerable youngsters

Defence of the unborn and the elderly