Holy Face Devotion: Perfect Reparation
Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
The Marian Fathers
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🗓️ 11 January 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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One of the most powerful devotions in history, and one that keeps surfacing around the world, is the Holy Face (from the Veil of Veronica and the Shroud of Turin). What is so powerful about this and how do we differentiate one image of Christ from another? How did they come to be? Fr. Chris Alar explains this incredible gift of grace. To access our weekly podcast, go to your preferred podcasting platform and search: Explaining the Faith
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good morning. I'm coming to you here from the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy. |
| 0:04.2 | We are live and a snowy, super snowy day. We're in western Massachusetts. We're going to be talking |
| 0:12.1 | at the end of the show about a holy face ministry in Buffalo. I feel like we're in Buffalo, but praise |
| 0:17.6 | me to God you're here with us. We had some super troopers make it in and we're excited to talk to you today about |
| 0:22.9 | I'm not exaggerating one of the most powerful devotions that when I used to list devotions I never included this devotion and I regret that |
| 0:31.7 | because the way God speaks to me other than beating me over head, is he keeps putting things in front of me. |
| 0:40.2 | And this devotion, today we're going to be talking about the holy face, keeps coming up over and over and over from around the world. |
| 0:51.4 | Everywhere I go, I see it. Every time I receive messages from you, I get it. So I was like, |
| 0:57.5 | okay, there's something going on here. And after preparing this, now I know why. So we're going to |
| 1:04.2 | talk about the Holy Face, the images of Christ, the different images, the veil of Veronica, which is really, there's two beliefs in that, the shroud of Turin, the Holy Face Medal, and we're going to talk about a lot of good stuff. |
| 1:24.3 | And so how this whole devotion came to be and why the Holy Face is so important. And why |
| 1:32.3 | Padre Pio called it the greatest of all miracles, meaning the veil of Veronica, and we'll talk again |
| 1:40.8 | why we need to know this. So we're grateful you could be with us. Let us begin |
| 1:45.1 | in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, |
| 1:51.7 | through the Holy Face of Jesus, we ask that the graces of your Son be granted to us through |
| 2:00.5 | divine mercy through the holy face. |
| 2:03.7 | We were taught and shown that Miserei Cordia Voltus, the face of the Father's mercy, |
| 2:11.1 | is the image of divine mercy, the face of Jesus itself. |
| 2:14.7 | And we ask to gaze upon that face for all eternity. We ask this through Christ, |
| 2:21.4 | our Lord. Amen. In the name of the Father, into the Son, into the Holy Spirit. Amen. So this is |
| 2:27.8 | great to have you guys with us. Thank you. Again, this holy face devotion. I forever regret over the last few years not putting this up there as the top devotions. |
| 2:39.3 | And again, it was my mistake because I am seeing it now. |
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