REVELATION OF OCTOBER 27, 1845
The author of the “Golden Arrow” Dorothy Scallon, declares that this revelation of the Holy Face is one of the most exalted conferred on the Carmelite Nun of Tours. It is a very lengthy revelation, so I would like to outline six main points why it is so incredible.
A little background first – It was given to her by our Lord on the Vigil of the Feast of Sts. Simon and Jude, Who seemed to be intentional about the days that He communicated His messages to her. If you remember from last year, and if you don’t that’s okay too, that St. Jude having the same name as the traitor Judas, took great pains to not be mistaken for the bad guy by wearing a medallion of Our Lord’s countenance around his neck everywhere he went. Images and statues of him depict this fact. Also, the previous revelation to this one was given on Oct. 11th – traditionally the feast day of the Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our Lord chose this date to reveal to Sr. St. Pierre for the first time that His Holy Face is to be the exterior object of adoration in the Work of Reparation. We can see that our Lord is again intentional in having His Mother as co-pilot, tying in the utmost important aspects of this devotion to her. Later in this revelation, He would say “Before all the angels and saints, I offer you this gift of my Holy Countenance through the hands of My Mother”. Those two hearts are never separated! Also, take note also that the word ADORATION as opposed to veneration is used by our Lord, as His Holy Face is the emblem of the Godhead – the Holy Trinity, which He punctuates by telling Sr. St. Pierre on this date, “To you, therefore, I now give this Holy Face in the presence of My Eternal Father and in virtue of the Holy Ghost.”
- Our Lord told her that His Holy Face which he presented to mankind was a mirror of those unutterable Divine perfections comprised and contained in the Most Holy Name of God. Isn’t that a mouthful, and it would take the likes of St. Thomas Aquinas to completely unpack it. However, two takeaways from this are that our Lord makes the connection between His Holy Face and His Holy Name. When we hear His Holy Name uttered with deep reverence, we can’t help but picture His Face! And secondly, those who blaspheme His Holy Name or attack our Catholic religion, renew the outrages that He incurred on His Face during His Passion, which is truly what we make reparation for!
- Our Lord then made a comparison between devotion to His Sacred Heart and His Holy Face. He told Sr. St. Pierre that His Sacred Heart is the exterior object offered for our adoration to represent His boundless love in the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. This represents the love from His Human Heart. In a parallel manner, the adorable Face of our Lord is the exterior object of His Divinity offered for our adoration in the work of reparation! Again, this is heady, but because our Lord is outside of time, it is throughout time, that His Name is so sadly taken in vain or used without love. When we make Reparation, we atone today in our time for these fresh outrages which in effect attack the Divinity or Godhead of which His Holy Face is the mirror and the emblem. That is why daily praying the 24 Acts composed by Sr. St. Pierre is a beautiful way of atoning for blasphemies which will be sadly uttered around the clock each day & every day!
- Our Lord then told her something else amazing by saying, “I seek Veronicas to wipe and venerate My Divine Face which has but few adorers!” He then reassured Sr. St. Pierre that those who apply themselves to Reparation perform the exact same service in His behalf as that which St. Veronica had performed. This, folks is how we mystically enter into the 6th Station of the Cross! Let’s change the “few adorers” to a multitude of them!
- Now this is profound when our Lord pronounced – that the gift of His adorable Countenance which He presented to her this day was, next to the Sacraments, the greatest gift that He could bestow upon her. So, when someone makes the claim to you that this is just another devotion in the sea of devotions, you can say “Oh no no no no no!” It is all about adoring the Blessed Trinity; there is nothing higher than that!
- Next, He gave this Carmelite to understand that He had appointed St. Louis, the King of France as the protector of the Work of Reparation on account of the zeal which this saint manifested for the glory of His Holy Name – apparently, he demanded this highest respect of Our Lord’s Holy Name by of all of his subjects unequivocally and under pain of punishment for a transgression. And, our Lord also said that St. Veronica was to be its protectress because of the service of love which she had rendered Him in wiping His adorable Face on the road to Calvary. Again – a connecting point between two saints – one keeping holy His Name, the other ministering to in love, His Holy Face!
- Now as a last emphatic point, our Lord declared, “Now if there will still be those who will not recognize that this is truly My Work, it is because they close their eyes!” Thanks be to God that your eyes are all open!!
So, dear friends, let a prayer be made daily from our hearts and lips for Bishops, priests, and Joe and Cindy-loo Catholic sitting beside us in the pew, that for them it may be as the worship song goes, “Open the eyes of my heart Lord, open the eyes of my heart, I want to SEE you”!
by the Littlest Wren St. Jospeh’s Missionaries of the Holy Face