NOVENA IN THE HOLY FACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
1st day. «Hear, Lord, my voice. I cry: "Have mercy on me!". Answer me. My heart said of you: "Seek his face". Your face, Lord, I seek. Do not hide your face from me, do not anger your servant. You are my help, don't leave me, don't abandon me, God of my salvation ». Lord Jesus, show us your face and we will be saved.
2nd day. Lord Jesus, your face is the irradiation of the Father's Glory and the image of his face. On your lips - spread grace; You are the most beautiful of the children of man. Whoever sees you sees your Father who sent you to us to be our wisdom, justice, sanctification and redemption. Lord Jesus, we adore you and thank you.
3rd day. Lord Jesus, in the incarnation you took on the face of each of us, in the passion you wanted to humble yourself until death and death on the cross, giving all of yourself for our redemption. Your face had no appearance or beauty. Despised and rejected by men, a man of pain who knows suffering, you have been pierced for our sins and crushed for our iniquities. Lord Jesus, let us dry your face by drying the suffering face of our brothers.
4th day. Lord Jesus, who showed compassion and tenderness towards all until weeping over human misfortunes and sufferings, makes your face shine on us again during our earthly pilgrimage until one day we can contemplate you face to face forever. Lord Jesus, who are the fullness of truth and grace, have mercy on us.
5th day. Lord Jesus, whom you looked with an eye of mercy on Peter inducing him to cry bitterly over his sin, look with benevolence on us too: cancel our faults, make us the joy of being saved. Lord Jesus, forgiveness is near you and your mercy is great.
6th day. Lord Jesus, who accepted the treacherous kiss of Judas and endured being slapped and spit in the face, help us to make our life a sacrifice pleasing to you, carrying our cross every day. Lord Jesus, help us complete what is missing from your passion.
7th day. Lord Jesus, we know that every man is the human face of God, who with our faults we disfigure and hide. You, who are mercy, do not look at our sins, do not hide your face from us. Your blood falls on us, you purify us and you renew us. Lord Jesus, who feast for every sinner who is converted, have mercy on us.
8th day. Lord Jesus, who in the transfiguration on Mount Tabor made your face shine like the sun, let us, walking in the splendor of your light, also transform our life and be light and leaven of truth and unity. Lord Jesus, who with your resurrection have overcome death and sin, walk with us.
9th day. O Mary, you who contemplated the face of the child Jesus with motherly affection and kissed his bloody face with deep emotion, help us to collaborate with you in the work of redemption so that the kingdom of your Son may be established in the world. of truth and life, of holiness and grace, of justice, of love and of peace. O Mary, Mother of the Church, intercede for us.