Dear Friend of Carmel,

The annual SOLEMN PUBLIC TRIDUUM in honor of OUR FATHER ST. JOSEPH will open in our Chap- el on Monday evening, from March 16th - March 18th and conclude on the Feast of St. Joseph, Thursday, March 19th. Our Triduum this year will be led by Fr. Ronan Murphy. Services each evening will begin with the Rosary at 7:15PM, followed by the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Holy Mass each evening will be offered for your intentions, and the Sacrament of Confession will be available throughout the Triduum.

According to the opinion of a great number ties which they experienced in it. Both, hop- of doctors, Our Father St. Joseph was sancti- ing to surmount them, chose St. Joseph as fied even in his mother’s womb. The Holy their guide and special patron, and very soon Ghost bestowed on him the title of Just, did they feel the effects of his patronage, so thus giving us to understand that he pos- that mediation or mental prayer became the sessed the plenitude of all virtues. His sanc- most consoling and agreeable of all their tity was commensurate with his high dignity, spiritual exercises. (“A Manual of Practical Devo- that of being the Virgin Mary’s spouse, lieu- tion to St. Joseph”, Patrignani, SJ ) tenant of the Eternal Father, guardian, foster -father, and father of the Man-God. No oth- If this be true of St. Joseph, in regard to our er saint approached the source of all sanctity spiritual life, in what will the daily protector so closely or for so long a period as Our Fa- and provider for the Holy Family, not inter- ther St. Joseph. He made rapid and continu- cede for on our behalf in all our needs. As a al progress in virtue under the eyes of Jesus good father, St. Joseph is concerned with and Mary, his living models. It is no wonder every aspect of our lives, and will not be slow then, that Our Holy Mother St. Teresa of to help those who call upon him with child- Jesus, Doctor of the Church, recommends like confidence. Just as it was said of the the great advantage of St. Joseph’s assistance patriarch Joseph of old, “Go to Joseph”, who to those souls who are desirous of advancing provided grain for the whole world in time of in the science of prayer. For St. Teresa, her- famine, so St. Joseph, will distribute every self, tells us in “The Way of Perfection” of grace and blessing to those who seek his help the necessity of practicing the virtues and and powerful intercession. mortification in order to grow in prayer and to dispose oneself for the gift of contempla- Devotion to Jesus, Mary and Joseph tion. In one of her ecstasies, St. Mary Magdalen It was by the aid of St. Joseph, that St. Tere- de Pazzi, beholding the glory of St. Joseph, sa was enabled to soar so high on the wings exclaimed, “In Paradise, St. Joseph’s purity of the eagle. To those souls who are anxious increases the luster of Mary’s: he always fa- to make progress in prayer, she writes, vors with especial protection those souls “Whoever cannot find a director capable of who are enrolled beneath the standard of guiding him through the paths of prayer, Mary! How resplendent does the sanctity of need only have recourse to St. Joseph in or- St. Joseph appear when united to that of Je- der to arrive happily at the possession of his sus and Mary.” Just as Jesus, Mary and Jo- heart’s treasure.” (from the Book of her Life) It seph were so closely allied to one another by is related by Pere Barri, one of the saint’s family ties, affection and holiness, so God historians, that he was acquainted with two desires that we be united to them with all individuals who could not endure the holy the fervor of our soul, fostering a true devo- exercise of prayer, on account of the difficul- tion to the Infancy of our Divine Lord, to which he preserved even in the midst of the most dis- which Mary and St. tracting duties. Joseph vowed all their love and energies. Frequently invoke these three names in life, so

that at the moment of death, we will experince The Three-fold end of Devotion to the Holy Face of their assistance. Jesus is: Adoration, Reparation, and Supplication

ADORATION “I desire that My Face, which shows My Soul’s deepest an- guish, my Heart’s sorrow and love, may be more honored. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I love you, save souls! Whoever contemplates me, consoles me.” Our Lord to Bd. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I give you my heart Marie Pierina First Friday of Lent 1936 and my soul.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, assist me in my last agony. Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus is a devotion for Jesus, Mary and Joseph, may I breathe forth my soul lovers of the Crucified Lord. It began on the sorrow- in peace with you. ful road to Calvary, when a pious woman named Ve- Practices in honor of St. Joseph ronica, moved by compassion for her suffering Lord, braved the angry mob, and dared to wipe the spittle,

dust, and blood from the Countenance of Our Lord. Invoking His Patronage Our Lord Jesus Christ showed his gratitude and love If Providence has placed you at the head of a family, for this supreme act of compassion, by leaving on her community or organization, entrust it to the care of a veil the imprint of His Holy Face. This sacred relic of saint to whom the Eternal Father confided all that was the Passion has been venerated by the Church since its most dear to Him, namely, Jesus and Mary. In this you earliest days and has been jealously guarded in a col- will follow Our Holy Mother St. Teresa’s example who umn of St. Peter’s Basilica. placed each new Carmel that she founded under the care “Look at His Face, look at His glazed eyes, look at His of her dear master and patron, St. Joseph. Just as Joseph wounds, look Jesus in the Face. There you will see how of old was told by Pharaoh, you shall be the head of He loves us.” St. Therese my house, so beg the ruler of the family of Jesus, St.

Joseph, to be the head of your house. Reparation Imitation of St. Joseph “I seek Veronicas to wipe and venerate my Divine Face which has but few adorers” Our Lord to Sr. Marie The Venerable Louis Lallemant, taking St. Joseph for de St. Pierre the master and model of his interior life, would daily In 1843, Our Lord began communicating with a Car- practice the following exercises: melite Nun, in Tours, France, Sr. Marie de St. Pierre, in order to spread devotion to His Holy Face. Our To enter in spirit into the heart of St. Joseph and re- Lord first spoke to her of the need to make reparation flect how docile it had been to the inspirations of the for the sins of Blasphemy and also the profanation of Holy Ghost; then looking into his own heart, humbled Sundays and Holy Days. She writes, “Our Lord made himself for his resistance and made the resolution to me visualize the act of blasphemy as a poisoned arrow be more faithful to grace in the future. continually wounding His Divine Heart. After that He revealed to me that He wanted to give me a To consider with what perfection St. Joseph united ‘Golden Arrow’ which would have the power of the interior life to the laborious occupations of his state of life, then reflecting on his own occupations, “St. Joseph was patient in poverty, assiduous in examining whether he had committed any faults in his work, full of sweetness towards those who insult- manner of performing them. By these practices Pere ed him, and full of zeal and devotion in serving Lallemant reached a high degree of union with God, the Holy Family.” (St. Bridget) wounding Him delightfully, and which would heal those gone, Satan). In the center of the cross is Veronica’s other wounds inflicted by the malice of sinners” Veil and on each side is the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, reminding wearers to THE GOLDEN ARROW PRAYER run to Jesus and Mary in times of temptation. May the most, holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God be always SUPPLICATION praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified, in Heaven, “Nothing that you ask in virtue of this offering will be on earth and in the hells, by all the creatures of God and refused you! Ah! If you did but know how pleasing is by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the the sight of My Face to My Father” Promise of Our Lord Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. to Sr. Marie de St. Pierre Our Lord, so greatly desiring the salvation of all souls, Our Lord also told Sr. Marie de St. Pierre, “Oh, if you gave many prayers and promises to Sr. Marie de St. only knew what merit you acquire by saying even once, Pierre, for our own sanctification and that of all man- ‘Admirable is the Name of God’ in a spirit of repara- kind. tion.” Our Lord explained that reparation for blasphe- mies also included all attacks against Religion and Holy PROMISES OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO THOSE Church; that is all heretical attacks (which are so nu- WHO PRACTICE DEVOTION TO HIS HOLY FACE merous in our times, even from within the Church). Our Lord said that only Reparation could disarm the By offering My Face to my Eternal Father, nothing will Justice of God because the guilt of men had provoked be refused, and the conversion of many sinners will be His anger. On October 4th, 1846 Sr. Marie was given to obtained. know that in the future, “God’s justice would use as the 2. By my Holy Face, they will work wonders, appease instrument of punishment, ‘the malice of revolutionary the anger of God and draw down mercy upon sinners. men-that is the Communists’.” Our Lord ordered Sr. 3. All those who honor My Face in a spirit of reparation Marie to wage war against the enemies of the Church, will by so doing perform the office of the pious Veroni- the Communists, through prayers and devotion to His ca. Holy Face and the instruments of His Passion which 4. According to the care they take in making reparation would be her only weapons against them and the devil to My Face disfigured by blasphemers, so will I take himself. Thus Devotion to the Holy Face is a sister de- care of their souls, which have been disfigured by sin. votion to Fatima. Our Lord Himself called Devotion to My Face is the seal of the Divinity, which has the virtue His Holy Face, “The most beautiful work under the of reproducing in souls the image of God. sun”. 5. Those who, by words, prayers or writings defend my A holy man of Tours, Leo DuPont, a friend of the Car- cause in the Work of Reparation, especially my Priests, mel of Tours, took up the prayers and devotion to the I will defend before My Father, and will give them My Holy Face, and arranged to have the prayers dictated by Kingdom. our Lord to Sr. Marie of St. Pierre, printed and circulat- 6. As in a kingdom they can procure all that is desired ed, calling the pamphlet, “The Work of Reparation” with a coin stamped with the King’s effigy, so in the against the sins of the profanation of Sundays, and blas- Kingdom of Heaven, they will obtain all they desire phemy. The Servant of God, Leo DuPont, was called by with the precious coin of My Holy Face. Pope Leo XIII, the “wonder worker” on account of the 7. Those who on earth contemplate the wounds of my many miracles which came about through the use of oil Face, shall in Heaven behold it radiant with glory. from a lamp which he burned perpetually in front of an 8. They will receive in their souls a bright and constant image of the Holy Face. Shortly before his death, devo- radiation of my Divinity, that by their likeness to My tion to the Holy Face was officially approved by the Face they shall shine with particular splendor in Heav- Church, and in 1885 Pope Leo XIII established the en. Archconfraternity of the Holy Face in his public orato- 9. I will defend them, I will preserve them and I assure ry, which is still a place of pilgrimage to this day. In ad- them of Final Perseverance. dition, Our Lord asked that each member of the Con- fraternity (and indeed all who are devoted to the Holy Face) wear a special cross called “The Holy Face Protec- tion Cross”. The cross bears the words on the front “Sit Nomen Domini Benedictum” (Blessed be the Name of the Lord) and on the reverse, Vade Retro Satana (be UPCOMING EVENTS AT CARMEL:

As a Reminder: Reparation and Devotions to the Holy Face of Jesus are of- fered every Third Sunday of the Month, with Eucharistic Adoration throughout the day, in our Chapel, after the 8:30AM Mass until public Devotions at 4:00PM, followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

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