Traditional Prayers

Act of Consecration to the Holy Face of Jesus

Acts of consecration to the Holy Face were the standard means of enrollment in the Archconfraternity of the Holy Face, erected at Tours and raised to an archconfraternity by Pope Leo XIII in 1885.

O Lord Jesus Christ, I consecrate to Thy Holy Face my body and my soul, my thoughts, my words, and my works, my joys and my sorrows, and the whole of the life Thou hast given me. I consecrate to Thee my eyes, that they may seek Thee; my lips, that they may bless Thy Name; my heart, that it may love Thee; and my hands, that they may serve the least of Thy brethren, in whom Thy Face is hidden. Accept, O Jesus, this offering of reparation for the blasphemies of the world, and keep me faithful until the hour of my death, when I hope to gaze upon Thy Face unveiled in the light of everlasting glory. Amen.

Archconfraternity of the Holy Face, Tours (traditional enrollment form)

About the prayer

Members promised a daily act of reparation and offered their ordinary lives — work, family duties, illness, and small humiliations — in union with the disfigured Face of Christ. The consecration ends where the whole devotion points: the beatific vision, the unveiled Face promised to the pure of heart. It is traditionally renewed on the Feast of the Holy Face (Shrove Tuesday), on the anniversary of one's enrollment, and at the start of Lent.

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