Jack Sullivan on Holy Face Novena 2023 –… Holy Face Novena 2023 – Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus.Thou art good, all good, highest good, Lord God living and true. Thou art the Lord God Triune and One all good. Thou art the Almighty King, Thou, holy Father, King of heaven and earth. Francis’s “Praises of God” are now now quite faded, but, this much can be still read: “Thou art holy, Lord God, who alone workest wonders. “May the Lord bless and keep you may He make His Face shine upon you and be merciful to you may He turn His Countenance toward you and give you His Peace!” (Num. Francis desired to impart to his friend, Brother Leo: Peace is the summit of these six actions of God in our favor, His most sublime gift, in which He turns toward us the splendor of His Face.” “The blessing repeats the three times Holy Name of God, a Name not to be spoken, and each time linked to two words indicating an action in favor of man. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, in his homily for the World Day of Peace, 2013, spoke of this blessing from the Book of Numbers which was for the priests and the people of Israel. Francis of Assisi by Jose Beniliure y Gil The text in the middle, written in black, and marked with a large “Tau” cross is in Francis’s own handwriting, he writes the praises of God* and grants to Brother Leo the blessing from the Book of Numbers 6: 22-27 which later became known as “the Blessing of St.
“One day Blessed Francis called him, saying, ‘Bring me paper and ink, for I wish to write the words of God and His praises which I have been meditating in my heart.’ What he asked for being straightway brought, he writes with his own hand the praises of God and the words which he wished, and lastly a blessing of the brother, saying: ‘Take this sheet for thyself and until the day of thy death guard it carefully.’ All temptation was at once driven away the letter is kept and worked wonders for the time to come.” Brother Leo kept it faithfully folding it in four, he carried it in his pocket and guarded it jealously for a good forty-six years.
Francis’s friend, Brother Leo, had greatly desired to have some memorial from the words of Our Lord written by St. Thomas of Celano wrote that for a long time St. It was written on Mount La Verna after St. Francis, now displayed in a silver reliquary.
Francis in Assisi is a precious relic: a small, crumpled piece of yellowed parchment with the writing of St.
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