Today we celebrate the feast of the Holy Face of Jesus

    

The Holy Face of Jesus as seen in the Shroud of Turin.

                        

The Venerable Leo Dupont.

He was very instrumental in spreading devotion to the Holy Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ in France in the 19th century.

                    

The famous Saint Therese of Liseux wrote this prayer to the Holy face:

O Jesus, who in Thy bitter Passion didst become "the most abject of men, a man of sorrows", I venerate Thy Sacred Face whereon there once did shine the beauty and sweetness of the Godhead; but now it has become for me as if it were the face of a leper! Nevertheless, under those disfigured features, I recognize Thy infinite Love and I am consumed with the desire to love Thee and make Thee loved by all men. The tears which well up abundantly in Thy sacred eyes appear to me as so many precious pearls that I love to gather up, in order to purchase the souls of poor sinners by means of their infinite value. O Jesus, whose adorable Face ravishes my heart, I implore Thee to fix deep within me Thy divine image and to set me on fire with Thy Love, that I may be found worthy to come to the contemplation of Thy glorious Face in Heaven.

Amen.