DEVOTION
Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus
A devotion of the Catholic faithful
A devotion of reparation honoring the Holy Face of Christ disfigured in his Passion, making amends for blasphemy and the profanation of Sundays.
background
Promoted by the Carmelite Sister Marie of St. Peter and by the Venerable Leo Dupont in nineteenth-century Tours, the devotion was approved and enriched with indulgences by Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XII, who set its feast on Shrove Tuesday.
practice Instructions
Venerate an image of the Holy Face, offer the prayers and the Golden Arrow of reparation, and make amends for sins against the holy Name of God and the sanctity of the Lord's Day, contemplating the suffering love revealed in the Face of Christ.