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    NOVENA OF REPARATION

    IN HONOR OF THE

    HOLY FACE OF JESUS

    (FEAST: TUESDAY BEFORE ASH WEDNESDAY)

    Holy Face of Jesus Center & Convent1111 F. R. Hidalgo Street, Quiapo

    1001 Manila, PhilippinesTel. No.: (02)735-9717

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    WITH ECCLESIASTICAL APPROVAL

    Given in Manila, 6th

    day of November 2013

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    FOURTH DAY

    All kneel

    All:

    In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.Amen.

    O Saving Victim (Song)

    O Saving Victim opning wide

    The gate of heaven to men below

    Our foes press on from every side

    Your aid supply, your strength bestow.To your great name be endless praise.

    Immortal God-head, one in Three;

    Oh, grant us endless length of days

    In our true native land with Thee. Amen.

    Leader: Arise, O Lord, and let Your enemies be scattered.

    People: And let them that hate You, flee before Your Holy Face.

    Leader: Behold, O God, our Protector.

    People: And look on the Face of Your Christ.

    Leader: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

    People: As it was in the beginning, is now and will be forever. Amen.

    All: May the Most Holy, Most Sacred, Most Adorable, MostIncomprehensible, and ineffable Name of God be forever praised,

    blessed, loved, adored and glorified in heaven and on earth by all the

    creatures of God, and by the Most Holy Face of our Lord and Savior

    Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.

    Leader: Behold, O God, our Protector;

    People: And look on the Face of Your Christ.

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    All: We beseech You O Almighty and Merciful God; grant us and all

    who venerate the Countenance of Your dearly beloved Son all

    disfigured by our sins the grace to behold It throughout eternity in the

    glory of Its majesty through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

    THE ROSARY OF REPARATION:

    GLORIOUS MYSTERIES

    (Sundays and Wednesdays)

    THE RESURRECTION: By the glory of Your Face, risen Lord, give

    back to our souls the beauty which sin has made us lose.

    THE ASCENSION: Jesus, ascended into Heaven, teach us, in

    contemplating Your Face, to gaze towards Your Father, in order to

    better know and accomplish His will on earth as in heaven.

    PENTECOST: Jesus, You leave us in Your Church, transfigured by the

    Holy Spirit, the authentic image of Your Face. Make us recognize in her

    merciful presence amongst us, until the end of time.

    THE ASSUMPTION: Jesus, we love to contemplate Your Countenance

    in the all loving welcome You gave to Mary, Your Mother. Reveal to us

    also, in the hour of our death, the Face we honor upon earth.

    THE CORONATION OF MARY: Jesus, how do we represent the

    Coronation of Your Mother? The splendor of Your Face is reflected in

    hers, and upon all those who, through her, have obtained to participatein Your Glory: here is the crown in which the height of joy and the

    crowning in which we all ought to have our share. Assist us to

    understand it and to work for it, so that our brothers and sisters may not

    be indifferent to this eternal manifestation of Your Holy Face.

    Hail Holy Queen/ Pray for us/ O God whose only begotten Son..

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    PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN

    (Prayer of Leo Papin Dupont, the Holy Man of Tours)

    O Mary, Virgin most holy, I place myself under your protection, and

    through you I throw myself with confidence into the arms of divine

    mercy; to you I commit all the moments of my life and above all the

    hour of my death, I commit to you my body and my soul and all that

    belongs to me. Kindly receive once more my troubles and my fears, my

    consolations and my hope, so that by your powerful protection and your

    merits, I may have in all my actions, for one only and unique end your

    good pleasure and the holy will of your divine Son.

    PRAYER TO THE HOLY VIRGIN(To obtain the grace to live in union with Jesus redeeming Passion)

    The sorrowful Mother was in tears standing beside the Cross

    on which her Son hung.

    Into her weeping, broken heart, the sword was pierced.

    How sad and afflicted was the Mother

    blessed above all, the Mother of the only Son!

    How she suffered, how stricken she was,

    the tender Mother, in contemplating her divine Son tormented!

    Who could contemplate the sorrowful Mother of Christ

    without suffering like her?

    For the sins of all His people, she saw Him in His torments,

    suffering the blows of the whip.

    She saw her most dear child dying in desolation,

    while He gave up His spirit.Please, O Mother, source of love,

    make me to feel your sufferings so that I may weep with you.

    O holy Mother, help to engrave

    the Crucifieds wounds deeply in my heart!

    As a good son, may I weep with you all the days of my life!

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    All stand

    HOLY FACE SONG

    Oh Face Divine of Jesus in ages long ago

    Prophets and sages prayed that Thou

    On earth thy light would show

    Most Holy Face I cry to Thee

    Like them that thy beams may see

    Most Holy Face I cry to Thee. (2x)

    Oh suffering Face of Jesus

    Bleeding, soiled and torn

    Thy temple and thy brow transpiercedWith many a cruel thorns

    Most Holy Face I cry to Thee

    Offer thy wounds to God for me

    Most Holy Face I cry to Thee. (2x)

    Oh dying Face of Jesus

    Oh that redeeming tree

    Crying aloud, Oh why my God

    Hast Thou forsaken me

    Most Holy Face I cry to Thee

    Plead by Thine agony for me

    Most Holy Face I cry to Thee (2x)

    Oh Glorious Face of Jesus

    If after I have died My soul but in Thy likeness makeI shall be satisfied

    Most Holy Face I cry to Thee

    More like thee ever make thou me

    Most Holy Face I cry to Thee. (2x)

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    MEDITATION ON THE PASSION AND DEATH

    OF THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS

    FOURTH DAY

    THE HOLY FACE IN THE GARDEN OF OLIVES

    All kneel

    All:Lord, I desire to search again for Your Face; so do not push me

    far away from it on account of my sins; do not take Your Holy Spirit

    away from me. Let the light of Your Face shine upon me; instruct me in

    the way of Your commandments.

    All be seated

    Leader: Follow Jesus, who after the Last Supper is going to the

    Garden of Olives to prepare Himself for His Passion. He kneels down

    apart, in solitude in a lonely place. He prays a long time, lasting three

    hours. His soul is given up to sadness, to fear, to the anguish of death.

    From time to time, He interrupts His prayer to go towards His disciples,

    to seek a little strength and consolation from them, but He does not find

    it: I have sought, He says, for someone to console Me, and I have

    not found anyone.You should observe three things here:

    I. THE SORROWFUL CONDITION OF THE HOLY FACE. It

    reflects all the impressions of His soul: It appears sad, desolating,

    trembling; It sheds tears, sorrowful groans escape from His lips. See

    also how, after having prayed on His knees, eyes humbly cast down, inorder to give more intensity and fervour to His prayer, the Saviour

    prostrates Himself with His Face to the ground. Contemplate this divine

    Face lowered even into the dust, pressed against an earth which has

    been cursed following upon Adams sin and condemned to only

    produce thorns and brambles; purified by this kiss of peace, by these

    tears of the adorable Victim, our earth will see its inhabitants bringing

    forth, following this, a rich harvest of flowers and fruits of virtue; but

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    Jesus takes the thorns upon Himself, He will crown His forehead with

    them.

    II. THE APPARITION OF THE ANGEL. At this moment the

    anguish of the Man-God redoubles; he feels a kind of mortal agony; a

    mysterious sweat, a sweat of blood, bathes His Face, trickles down His

    forehead, and falls drop by drop upon the ground where He is

    prostrated. An Angel appears to strengthen Him; strengthened by the

    heavenly aid, Jesus rises, accepts the chalice which His Father offers to

    Him; He will drink it with love and to the end.

    Consoling Angel, you give me the example; I am envious of your

    lot; I desire to put myself in your place, it is for me to raise up thisadorable and languishing Victim, to make up for Him by the tenderness

    of my love and the generosity of my sacrifices; because it is for me that

    He suffers and is humiliated; it is for me that He resigned Himself to

    drink the chalice which His Father is presenting to Him.

    III. WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO. It is for you to offer and to

    imitate, O Jesus! You never refused the help of others and the Angels

    consolation.

    Allow me, despite my unworthiness, to approach You and render

    you the same service. Let me compassionate You in Your sadness, to

    raise You from the ground and respectfully to hold You in my arms. It

    is for me to prostrate myself to the ground, to humble myself in a spirit

    of reparation; I associate myself with Your humiliations and Your grief;

    like You I accept the chalice of trial, with you I bow my head andresign myself to the divine will, saying: here I am, Lord, I come to do

    your will; this law will be always engraved in my heart; may Your will

    be done, and not my own, not what I desire, but as you wish.

    ACT OF ABANDONMENTOffer yourself entirely to God to do

    nothing but His adorable will; make this offering in union with Jesus

    praying with His Face to the ground in the Garden of Olives.

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    VIRTUE TO PRACTICE Do penance; move yourself to

    contrition for your own faults and for those of others; accept in a spirit

    of expiation the trials which it may please God to send you.

    SPIRITUAL BOUQUET My nourishment, that is to say my joy

    and my delights, is to do the will of my Heavenly Father.

    All kneel

    All: I have prayed before your Face with my whole Heart (Psalm

    118:58): have pity on me according to your promise.

    Let the light of Your Face shine upon me in Your mercy, Lord, I shallnot be confounded, because I have called upon You. All powerful and

    merciful God, grant, we beg of You, that in venerating the Face of Your

    Christ, disfigured in His Passion because of our sins, we may merit to

    contemplate It eternally, in the light of celestial glory, through the same

    Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

    INVOCATIONS TO THE HOLY FACE

    Leader: O Jesus, whose adorable Face Mary and Joseph worshipped

    with profoundest reverence,

    People: * Have mercy on us. (Response after each invocation)

    Leader:

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the masterpiece of the Holy Spirit, in

    which the Father was well pleased,*O Jesus, whose adorable Face ravished with joy the angels, shepherds

    and Magi in the stable of Bethlehem,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face wounded with a dart of love the aged

    Simeon and the Prophetess Anna in the temple,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was bathed in tears in your Holy

    Infancy,*

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    O Jesus, whose adorable Face at the age of twelve astonished doctors in

    the temple,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face is white with purity and ruddy with

    charity,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face is more beautiful than the sun, brighter

    than the moon and more brilliant than the stars,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face is lovelier than the roses of spring,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face is more precious than gold, silver, and

    gems,*

    O Jesus, the charms and grace of whose adorable Face win all hearts,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face is most noble in Its heavenly features,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the admiration of angels,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the sweet delight of the Saints,*O Jesus, whose adorable Face was the delight of Your Virgin-Mother

    and Your holy father St. Joseph,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the ineffable mirror of divine

    perfections,*

    O Jesus, the modesty and mildness of whose adorable Face attracted

    both just and sinners,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face appeases the divine wrath,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the terror of the evil spirits,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the treasures of graces and blessings,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was exposed to the inclemency of the

    weather in the desert,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was scorched by the sun and bathed in

    sweat on Your journeys,*

    O Jesus, the expression of whose adorable Face is wholly divine,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face gave a holy kiss and blessing to the littlechildren,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face sorrowed and wept at the grave of

    Lazarus,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was brilliant as the sun and radiant with

    glory on Mount Tabor,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face is worthy of all reverence, veneration and

    worship,*

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    O Jesus, whose adorable Face grew sad at the sight of Jerusalem when

    You did weep over that ungrateful city,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was bowed to the earth in the garden of

    Olives because of our sins,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was bathed in bloody sweat,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was kissed by Judas the traitor,*

    O Jesus, the power of whose adorable Face smote the soldiers to the

    ground in the garden of Olives,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was struck by a vile servant, derided by

    enemies and desecrated by their unholy hands,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was defiled with spittle and bruised by

    blows,*

    O Jesus, the divine look of whose adorable Face wounded Peters heartwith repentant sorrow and love,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was humbled for us before the tribunals

    of Jerusalem,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face preserved Its serenity and dignity when

    Pilate pronounced the death sentence,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was covered with bloody sweat which

    fell to the ground under the Cross,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face the pious Veronica wiped on the way to

    Calvary,*

    O Jesus, the eyes of whose adorable Face shed tears of blood,*

    O Jesus, the mouth of whose adorable Face was tormented with vinegar

    and gall,*

    O Jesus, the hair and beard of whose adorable Face were plucked out by

    the executioners,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was disfigured like to that of a leper,*O Jesus, the incomparable beauty of whose adorable Face was

    disfigured by the sins of the world,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was overcast by the mournful shadows of

    death,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was washed, anointed and wrapped in a

    shroud by Mary and the holy women,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was laid to rest in the grave,*

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    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was resplendent in beauty on the day of

    Your resurrection,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face was radiant in glory on the day of Your

    ascension,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face will appear in the clouds at the end of the

    world with great power and majesty,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face will be the terror of sinners,*

    O Jesus, whose adorable Face is the joy of the just in heaven,*

    Leader: The light of Your Face has been shed upon us

    People: You have given joy to our hearts

    All: O powerful and merciful God, grant us to see forever beaming withglory the Face of our Lord Jesus Christ which we honor here below all

    disfigured in His Passion by our sins, through the same Jesus Christ.

    Amen.

    SALUTATIONS TO THE HOLY FACE IN THE BLESSED

    SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR

    People: Hail! O Adorable Face present in the Sacrament more

    resplendent than the sun. Hail! You noble seal of the divinity, You

    mirror of divine perfections! With all the powers of my soul, I turn to

    You, O Jesus, and humbly pray to You, to imprint upon our hearts, all

    the features of Your Divine Countenance. Amen.

    BLESSING

    The Lord bless us, and keep us; The Lord show His Face to us, and

    have mercy on us; The Lord turn His Countenance to us, and give us

    peace. Amen.

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    BANAL NA MUKHA AY ITATANGHAL

    (Himig: AtingPangarap)

    Ang banal na Mukha ay ating itanghal

    Sa puso ng lahat na kanyang nilalang.

    Siyayating pag-asa, sandigan sa dusa

    Laging naghihintay at nag-aanyaya.

    Kung ikaw ay dudulog sa Kanya tuwina

    Buhay mo ay sasaya, di ka magdurusa.

    Kay ganda ng buhay, huwag nating sayangin

    Di lang natin alam may nagmamahal din.

    Ang banal Niyang Mukhayitanghal natin

    Sapagkat itoydaan ng kapayapaan.

    Sinumang may nais sa Kanyaysumunod

    Dalhin mo ang krus at sundan si Jesus.

    BENEDICTION

    LET US RAISE OUR VOICE

    Let us raise our voiceTo proclaim our faith

    Christ the Lord for us has died,

    Dying, He destroyed our death,

    Rising, He restored our life,

    O Lord Jesus, we await

    Your last return in glory.

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    When we eat the bread

    And we drink the cup

    In the Blessed Eucharist,

    We meet You, Our risen Saviour,

    Giving life to us anew,

    Through lifes journey, be with us

    To strengthen us forever. Amen

    V. You have given them bread from heaven. (Alleluia)

    R. The source of all happiness. (Alleluia)

    LET US PRAY:

    Lord God, by the paschal mystery of the death and resurrection of Youronly Son You accomplished the work of mans redemption. Full of

    trust, we proclaim that paschal mystery in the sacramental signs of the

    Eucharist. Help us to see ever growing in us the fruits of Your saving

    work through Christ our Lord. Amen.

    THE DIVINE PRAISES

    All: Blessed be God

    Blessed be His Holy Name

    Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man

    Blessed be the Name of Jesus

    Blessed be His most Sacred Heart

    Blessed be His most Precious Blood

    Blessed be Jesus in the most holy Sacrament of the altar

    Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the ParacleteBlessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy

    Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception

    Blessed be her glorious Assumption

    Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother

    Blessed be St. Joseph, her most Chaste spouse

    Blessed be God in His angels and in His saints

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    (The Blessed Sacrament is returned to the tabernacle)

    O SACRAMENT MOST HOLY

    O Sacrament, Most Holy,

    O Sacrament Divine,

    All praise and all thanksgiving

    Be every moment Thine.