The Golden Arrow Prayer
(Dictated by Our Lord to Sister Mary of St. Peter)
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.
After reciting this prayer, Sister Mary of St. Peter was given a vision in which she saw the Sacred Heart of Jesus delightfully wounded by this “Golden Arrow,” as torrents of graces streamed from It for the conversion of sinners.
An Offering of the Holy Face
O Eternal Father, I offer Thee the adorable Face of Thy Beloved Son Jesus for the honour and glory of Thy Name, for the conversion of sinners and for the salvation of the dying. Amen.
Litany of the Holy Face of Jesus
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.
O Jesus, whose adorable Face Mary and Joseph worshipped with profoundest reverence, have mercy on us.
O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the masterpiece of the Holy Ghost, in which the Father was well pleased, have mercy on us.
O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the delight of the Angels, have mercy on us.
O Jesus, whose adorable Face was bathed in sweat and tears in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on us.
O Jesus, whose adorable Face was struck by a vile servant, blindfolded, and profaned by the sacrilegious hands of Thine enemies, have mercy on us.
O Jesus, whose adorable Face was defiled with spittle and bruised by so many buffets and blows, have mercy on us.
O Jesus, whose adorable Face had Its divine glance dimmed by the blood and tears which streamed from Thine eyes, have mercy on us.
O Jesus, whose adorable Face was adored by the Angels and looked upon by the Blessed Mother with reverence and love, have mercy on us.
O Jesus, whose adorable Face was covered with the sweat of death and dishonoured by the kiss of a traitor, have mercy on us.
O Jesus, whose adorable Face was imprinted on the veil of Veronica, have mercy on us.
O Jesus, whose adorable Face we now adore in spirit and in truth, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Contexte Historique
The Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus has ancient roots in the tradition of the Veil of Veronica, but it was formally established in the 1840s through revelations to a Carmelite nun, Sister Marie of St. Peter, in Tours, France. Our Lord revealed to her that this devotion was intended to make reparation for the sins of blasphemy and the profanation of Sunday, which He described as arrows that wound His Sacred Heart. The devotion was championed by the Venerable Leo Dupont, the ‘Holy Man of Tours,’ and later approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885. It is a powerful means of adoring the disfigured Face of Christ in His Passion and making amends for offenses against God.