“Thus I have searched among them for someone who would build a wall or stand in the breach before me to keep me from destroying the land.” Ezekiel 22:30

The world is disfigured by sin. The image of Christ’s face in the Veil of Veronica profoundly illustrates man’s response to God’s saving work. Instead of running to God for forgiveness and healing, the world tortured, mocked, abused, and put our Lord to death. These offenses against the Holy Face of Jesus continue into this present day, in particular though sins against the first three commandments against idolatry, blasphemy, and profanation of the Holy Day.

And yet, Christ persists in His saving work and invites us to join Him in this work of love. He came not to condemn sinners, but to save them. To be their healer, not their executioner. The great work of the Devotion of the Holy Face of Jesus is to ask God’s pardon for sinners, to adore His face as a reparation for all the times He has been rejected and despised, so that a great multitude of sinners can be saved.