After the Novena to the Holy Face, due to the pen of the regretted Rev. Father Janvier, had been published, the faithful desired to possess a series of Meditations which might piously occupy them during a whole month. We have attempted to respond to this desire, and to fulfill a wish by writing the present little book, which we have entitled The Month of the Holy Face.

This little work, very imperfect as it doubtless is, consists of thirty-one meditations inspired by the Litanies of Sister Marie de Saint- Pierre. followed by a practical resolution given under the form of a spiritual Bouquet, and terminated by an incident borrowed from the life of St Veronica, from the history of the devotion to the Holy Face, from the revelations of Sister Marie de Saint-Pierre, from the life of M. Dupont, and from the miracles worked at his house during his life time and after his death. Each incident is followed by an invocation to the Holy Face. Our sole object has been to edify the friends of the Holy Face, by inspiring them with pious thoughts, and exciting in them a zeal for Reparation. May we have the happiness of attaining it; and of thereby procuring the glory of God and the good of souls!

Several months of the year have been consecrated by the piety of the faithful to God and to the Saints— March to St Joseph, May to the Blessed Virgin, June to the Sacred Heart, July to the Precious Blood, September to Our Lady of the Seven Dolors, October to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, etc.

The month of April seems reserved for the Holy Face. It is during this month that we celebrate most frequently the mystery of the sorrowful Passion and the Resurrection of Our Lord. It is at this epoch that the great pilgrimages of reparation take place at the Oratory of the Holy Face. It is during this month that we perform every day the exercise indicated in the Month of the Holy Face.

Let us continue, dear associates, to be united in spirit and in heart in one and the same thought of reparation with the Blessed Virgin of the Seven Dolors, with St Veronica, with M. Dupont and with Sister Saint-Pierre, and we shall see that there will be fulfilled on our behalf the promise made to the holy Carmelite of Tours: I will defend in the presence of my Father the cause of all who defend my cause by words, by prayers or by writings, in this work of reparation. At their death I will wipe the face of their souls, by effacing all the stains of sin and restoring to them their primitive beauty.