"Arise, O Lord!!!"

The prayer found in Psalm 68 and Psalm 67 of the Douay-Rheims Version Bible has its origins with Moses, as recorded in Numbers 10:35. Moses would recite this prayer when the Israelites, carrying the Ark of the Covenant, went into battle against enemy forces. Today, this prayer is often recited in times of distress or when facing spiritual or physical attacks from adversaries, whether earthly or ethereal. Notably, elements of this prayer are incorporated into other devotions, such as the Orthodox Prayer of the Cross and The Holy Face Chaplet.

Orthodox Prayer To The Cross

"Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered; and let those who hate Him flee from His face. As smoke vanishes, let them vanish; and as wax melts from the presence of fire, so let the demons perish from the presence of those who love God and who sign themselves with the Sign of the Cross and say with gladness: Hail, most precious and life-giving Cross of the Lord, for Thou drivest away the demons by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ Who was crucified on thee, went down to hell and trampled on the power of the devil, and gave us thee, His honorable Cross, for driving away all enemies. O most precious and life-giving Cross of the Lord, help me with our holy Lady, the Virgin Theotokos, and with all the Saints throughout the ages. Amen."

Saint Augustine even wrote an Exposition on Psalm 68, interpreting the first line to be about Christ's resurrection and victory over death and Satan.

Psalm 68 is used liturgically in Catholicism and Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christianity during the Paschal season and the Ascension of Christ, as well as in the Liturgy of the Hours.

The prayer is powerful against the forces of darkness, not only against bodiless spirits but also against the evil of men, particularly the tyranny of godless communists.

Such men had offended God through blasphemies and the profanation of holy days and the Sunday Sabbath, as revealed by Christ to Sister Mary of St. Peter in the late 1880s.

In these private revelations, Jesus revealed his desire for reparation through the Golden Arrow Prayer and the Holy Face Chaplet.

Golden Arrow Prayer

"May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen."

Our Lord revealed to her the graces and heavenly promises of offering up reparation through devotion to His Holy Face: "Those who will contemplate the wounds on My Face here on earth shall contemplate it radiant in heaven."

The promises of devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus are:

* "By my Holy Face you will work marvels."

* "You will obtain from my Holy Face the salvation of a multitude of sinners."

* "If you could comprehend how agreeable the sight of my Holy Face is to my Heavenly Father!"

* "According to the care you take to repair my countenance disfigured by blasphemy, so shall I be animated in the same degree to transform your soul which has been disfigured by sin; I will imprint thereon my own image, and I will render it as beautiful as when it came forth from the baptismal font."

* "My adorable Face is the seal of the Divinity, having the power to imprint itself on the souls of those who apply it to their persons."

* "As in an earthly kingdom, the subjects can procure all they desire by being provided with a piece of money stamped with the effigy of the monarch, so also shall you be able to obtain all that you desire in the kingdom of heaven, on presenting the impress of my sacred humanity, which is my Holy Face."

According to Sister Mary, "The Holy Face is a picture of the Divinity outraged by the opprobrium of blasphemies, as the Sacred Heart is a picture of the immense love of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist."

Pope Leo XIII approved the Archconfraternity of the Holy Face in 1885, extending it to the universal Church and granting indulgences to those who practice the devotion.

There are two versions of the chaplet, but I am unsure as to why? It seems the version I learned is the newer one, which has been phased out by the revived Archconfraternity of the Holy Face.

In total, I have three chaplets: the first is a simple cord chaplet with a plastic crucifix that was made by my late friend Jim, and two are from a friend's brother who makes them.

The first two are the newer version, and my newest is the original version of the chaplet in Thin Blue Line colors.

The prayer of reparation is not vain repetition, as the Bible speaks of in Matthew 6:7. It is not vain to repeat prayers, as St. Paul said to "pray without ceasing" (1 Thessalonians 5). We know that the Scriptures, especially the Psalms, were repeatedly prayed before and during the earthly life of Christ in synagogues and in the Temple. Even in the early centuries, monks prayed all 150 Psalms daily. Only later did it develop for illiterate monks and laymen to pray 150 Lord's Prayers, Angelic Salutations or Ave Marias, and, of course, the Jesus Prayer, which is a variation of the Publican's Prayer.

Jesus Prayer

"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner."

Vain repetition was practiced by pagans who believed that if they missed the name of a god or did not offer up the correct order and complete prayers, rituals, or spells, the gods would punish them, or they would become cursed with misfortune. We do not approach Christ in fear, believing that if we do not offer up a number of devotions in reparation, He will punish us. Such a belief is superstitious and spiritually harmful, as it can result in scrupulosity or a lack of true love for God.

St. Anthony of Egypt is quoted as having said, "I no longer fear God but love Him." We must approach reparation to Christ and God with love and true devotion.

It is true that these prayers are extremely powerful. They burn and scourge the denizens of Hell and convert the hearts of heathens and blasphemers, especially communists, humanist eugenists, and transhumanists, who would have us live in pods eating bugs as characterless flesh-bots enslaved to the towering, "Babylonian 1%."

We must offer these prayers out of love for God and His Christ, and for our enemies, and then our neighbors/family.

There are many devotions and prayers to the Holy Face of Jesus going back to the earliest centuries, such as the Image of Edessa (known as the Mandylion), the Veil of Veronica, the Shroud of Turin, and countless prayers.

St. Thérèse of Lisieux a Carmelite Nun was devoted to the Infant Jesus and the Holy Face of Jesus. St Thérèse composed a prayer to the Holy Face of Jesus.

St. Thérèse of Lisieux Prayer To The Holy Face

"O Jesus, who, in Thy cruel Passion didst become the 'reproach of men and the Man of Sorrows,' I worship Thy divine Face. Once it shone with the beauty and sweetness of the Divinity; but now, for my sake, it is become as 'the face of a leper.' Yet, in that disfigured Countenance, I recognize Thy infinite love, and I am consumed with the desire of making Thee loved by all mankind. The tears that flowed so abundantly from Thy Eyes are to me as precious pearls that I delight to gather, that with their worth I may ransom the souls of poor sinners. O Jesus, whose Face is the sole beauty that ravishes my heart, I may not see here below the sweetness of Thy glance, nor feel the ineffable tenderness of Thy kiss, I bow to Thy Will—but I pray Thee to imprint in me Thy divine likeness, and I implore Thee so to inflame me with Thy love, that it may quickly consume me, and that I may soon reach the vision of Thy glorious Face in heaven. Amen.”

Many people burn a perpetual oil lamp in front of an icon or sacred image of the Holy Face of Jesus, and some carry or wear a medal of the Holy Face of Jesus and kiss it, making reparation for the kiss of Judas.

In Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches On August 16th the day after the Dormition of the Theotokos known as the Assumption of Mary in the Latin Church the Church celebrates the Feast of The Icon of The Savior Not-Made-By-Hands or alternatively as The Third Feast of the Savior. Hymns are sung in honor of the Holy Mandylion.

Troparion

"We venerate Your most pure image, O Good One,

And ask forgiveness of our transgressions, O Christ God.

Of Your own will You were pleased to ascend the Cross in the flesh

To deliver Your creatures from bondage to the Enemy.

Therefore with thanksgiving we cry aloud to You:

"You have filled all with joy, O our Savior,

By coming to save the world."

Kontakion

Uncircumscribed Word of the Father

As we behold the victorious image of Your true incarnation,

Not made by hands,

But divinely wrought in Your ineffable and divine dispensation towards us,

We honor it with veneration!

However we honor and worship Christ, let's offer prayers of thanksgiving, veneration, and reparation with true love and zeal for God.

In loving memory of the Servant of Christ, Jim Carrol, a devout devotee to the Holy Face of Jesus.