Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Offering of the Holy Face to Appease God’s Justice and Draw Down Mercy Upon Us


Offering of the Holy Face to Appease God’s Justice 
and Draw Down Mercy Upon Us

Eternal Father, turn away Your angry gaze from all guilty people whose faces have become unsightly in Your eyes.  Look instead upon the face of Your Beloved Son, for this is the Face of Him in whom You are well pleased.  We now offer You this Holy Face, covered with shame and disfigured by bloody bruises, in reparation for the crimes of our age, in order to appease Your anger, justly provoked against us.  Because of Your Divine Son, our Redeemer, has taken upon His Head all the sins of His people that they might be spared, we now beg of You, Eternal Father, to grant us mercy.  Amen

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