Devotion to Jesus: the unprecedented plea to the Holy Face for graces

O Jesus, our Savior, show us your Holy Face!

We beg you to turn your gaze, full of mercy and expression of pity and forgiveness, on this poor humanity, enveloped in the darkness of error and sin, as in the hour of your death. You promised that, once lifted from the earth, you would attract all men, all things to You. And we come to You precisely because You attracted us. We are grateful to you; but we ask you to attract to yourself, with the irresistible light of your Face, the innumerable children of your Father who, like the prodigal son of the Gospel parable, wander far from the father's house and disperse the gifts of God in a miserable way.

2. O Jesus, our Savior, show us your Holy Face!

Your Holy Face radiates light everywhere, like a luminous beacon that guides those who, perhaps without even knowing it, seek you with a restless heart. You make the loving invitation ring out incessantly: "Come to me, all you who are fatigued and oppressed, and I will refresh you!" We have listened to this invitation and we have seen the light of this lighthouse, which has guided us to You, until we discover the sweetness, the beauty and the kindness of your Holy Face. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. But we pray: the light of your Holy Face may break the mists that surround so many people, not only those who never knew you, but also those who, despite having known you, abandoned you, perhaps because they never looked at you in the Face.

3. O Jesus, our Savior, show us your Holy face!

We come to your Holy Face to celebrate your glory, to thank you for the countless spiritual and temporal benefits that you fill us with, to ask for your mercy and your forgiveness and your guidance in all moments of our life, to ask for your our sins and those of those who do not return your infinite love. You know, however, how many dangers and temptations our life and the life of our loved ones are exposed to; how many forces of evil try to push us out of the way you have indicated to us; how many worries, needs, infirmities, hardships hang over us and our families.

We trust in you. We always carry with us the image of your merciful and kind face. We beg you, however: if we were to distract our gaze from You and be attracted by flattery and perverse mirages, your Face may shine even more luminous in the eyes of our spirit and always attract us to You who alone are the Way, the Truth and the Life. .

4. O Jesus, our Savior, show us your Holy Face!

You have placed your Church in the world so that it may be the constant sign of your presence and the instrument of your grace so that the salvation for which you came into the world, died and rose again is realized. Salvation consists in our intimate communion with the Most Holy Trinity and in the fraternal union of the whole human race.

We thank you for the gift of the Church. But we pray that it always manifests the light of your Face, that it always be transparent and limpid, your holy Spouse, sure guide of humanity in the paths of history towards the definitive homeland of eternity. May your Holy Face constantly illuminate the Pope, the Bishops, the Priests, the Deacons, the male and female Religious, the faithful, so that all may reflect your light and be credible witnesses of your Gospel.

5. O Jesus, our Savior, show us your Holy Face!

And now we want to make a last supplication to you for those who are zealous in devotion to your Holy Face, collaborating in their state of life so that all the brothers and all the sisters may know and love you.

O Jesus, our Savior, may the apostles of your Holy Face radiate your light around him, give witness of faith, hope and charity, and accompany many lost brothers to the house of God the Father and Son and Holy Spirit . Amen.