God's Holy Face

Part I
A consecration to the Holy Face

Lord, Jesus I give thanks to you that you have made me know your Holy Face. It was on the Feast day of the Holy Trinity, after the Mass in Jebal Ali Church I came to the camp and I was just reading the passage from the Prayers of St. Therese of Lisieux (chapter 11 & 12) I was so touched by her love for Jesus Christ and her attitude towards His Holy Face, and it was contemplative. (Then I remembered the time when I came to Jesus I was just going through the word of God, and not understanding anything. Then I remember when Br. Joemon has given me Is. 53 to read and meditate. When I read this, it was so touched and my heart was filled with the image of Jesus’ blood stained face. St. Therese was so touched by this particular chapter of Isaiah 53 and ‘They were the foundation of all her piety’. In her own words “I too, have desired to be without beauty, alone in treading the wine press, unknown to everyone”, yes indeed! Like Mother Mary she never tried to be known to anyone.

I felt I would write a song in her honour and the Spirit of God was guiding me to write this.

St. Therese, St. Therese, of child Jesus

Oh Little Flower; of God’s own garden

Pray for us, pray for us, poor souls,

Pray for us, pray for us, poor sinners.

          You saw the Face of Jesus our Lord,

          In the light of His eternal glory,

          When we see Him face to face,

          Pray for us, to share His eternity…... (Pray for us.)

You wrote the prayers; in the heart of Jesus

Together we do the sacrifice, for the poor souls

An act of oblation we make for God,

To save the poor sinners, for Jesus…....(Pray for us.)

          You prayed to Jesus; wholeheartedly,

          In his Holy Heart you rest in peace.

          When you walk with Jesus hand in hand

          Tell my sorrows to Him graciously… (Pray for us.)

         

Oh my Little Flower! Together we can search the Face of our Lord and pray for the salvation of many souls. Lord your beauty was snatched away by our sins Is.53: 2.We betrayed you without any reason and we are not able to see your Face, because it is blood stained. ‘We averted our gaze, despised, for whom we have no regard’ Is. 53:3. Lord we never respect you and never consider you, as you are our creator and our only God. But you bear all our sins in a pleasant way; and with a smiling face you are looking to us. Lord, we have no regard about your suffering.

But we thought God was punished you for your guiltiness Is.53: 4-5.

‘Yet ours were the sufferings he was bearing,

Ours the sorrows he was carrying,

While we thought of him as someone being punished

And struck with affliction by God;

Where as he was being wounded for our rebellions,

Crushed because of our guilt;

The punishment reconciling us fell on him,

And we have been healed by his bruises.’

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