The Feast of the Holy Face always falls on “Shrove Tuesday” which is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.  This year the feast day falls on Tuesday, March 4th. 

Please join us on this special occasion for a Holy Hour of Reparation to the Holy Face of Jesus from 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM followed by Compline Night prayers.  Included are time for veneration of a Vatican verified Holy Face relic, Eucharistic Adoration, Rosary, and prayers of reparations.  All are welcomed and encouraged to attend!

When did the Feast of the Holy Face Begin?

On the first Friday in Lent in 1936, Mother Maria Pierina de Michelli (beatifed May 30th, 2010) reported a vision of Jesus. She reported Jesus' desire of a special feast day on the Tuesday preceding Ash Wednesday each year (Shrove Tuesday), to be preceded by a 9 day novena prayer.  In 1958 Pope Pius XII declared the feast of the Holy Face of Jesus for all Roman Catholics to be the day before Ash Wednesday (Shrove Tuesday).

The Holy Face Novena this year will begin on Sunday, February 23rd–nine days of prayer leading up to the Feast Day of the Holy Face on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025–and can be found by clicking here 9 Day Novena to the Holy Face.

“Do you see how I suffer? Yet very few understand me. Those who say they love me are very ungrateful! I have given my HEART as the sensible object of my great LOVE to men and I give my FACE as the sensible object of my sorrow for the sins of men. I wish that it be venerated by a special Feast on Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. I wish that the feast be preceded by a novena in which the faithful make reparation with Me, joining together and sharing in my sorrow.” – Words of Our Lord to Bl. Mother Maria Pierina de Micheli (1890-1945)

Another holy nun, Sr. Marie St. Pierre (1816-1848) of Tours, France, was given revelations about devotion to the Face of Jesus. She received communications from Our Lord, who asked for a devotion to His Holy Face and a Work of Reparation: the offering His Holy Face to the Father in reparation for the sins of blasphemy, sacrilege, the crimes of atheistic communism, the profanation of the Holy Name, and the Holy Day of Sunday. The sins against the first three Commandments of the Ten Commandments are the greatest sins against God. The damage done by our sins to our relationship with God are reflected in the Face of of His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. For this reason, devotion and reparation to the Holy Face is fitting in order to make amends for what we have done to Him.

Our Lord said to her, “I have taken upon my Head all the sins of mankind, so that my members may be spared. Therefore, offer my Face to the Father, this is the means of appeasing Him.”

“My daughter, I give you my Face and my Heart, I give you my Blood, and I open my wounds to you; draw from them and pour it out. Buy without money, my Blood that is the price of souls. Oh! What grief for my Heart to see the remedies which have cost me so dearly, scorned. Ask from my Father as many souls as the number of drops of Blood that I shed during my Passion.”

“All who will undertake this work and who will truly devote themselves to it will not die the eternal death. I will defend their cause before my Father, and I will give them the kingdom of Heaven.” 

“This work is the essence of charity!” — Our Lord to Sr. Marie St. Pierre