Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
- God the Father of Heaven,
have mercy on us. - God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
have mercy on us. - God the Holy Ghost,
have mercy on us. - Holy Trinity, One God,
have mercy on us.
- O adorable Face, who was adored with profound reverence by Mary and Joseph, when they saw You for the first time,
have mercy on us. - O adorable Face, who delighted the angels, shepherds and Magi in the stable of Bethlehem,
have mercy... - O adorable Face, who wounded with a stroke of love, in the temple, the elder Simeon and Anne the prophetess,
- O adorable Face, who was bathed in tears in Your holy infancy,
- O adorable Face, who filled with admiration the doctors of the law, when they saw You in the temple at the age of twelve,
- O adorable Face, white with purity, vivid with charity,
- O adorable Face, more beautiful than the sun, more graceful than the moon, more radiant than the stars,
- O adorable Face, more precious than gold, silver and diamonds,
- O adorable Face, whose features were ravishing and whose graces charming,
- O adorable Face, whose nobility characterized every feature,
- O adorable Face, contemplated by Angels,
- O adorable Face, the sweet delight of the Saints,
- O adorable Face, masterpiece of the Holy Spirit, in whom the Eternal Father placed His complacency,
- O adorable Face, delights of Mary and Joseph,
- O adorable Face, ineffable mirror of divine perfections,
- O adorable Face, whose beauty is ever ancient and ever new,
- O adorable Face, who appeases the wrath of God,
- O adorable Face, who makes demons tremble,
- O adorable Face, treasure of graces and blessings,
- O adorable Face, exposed in the desert to the harshness of the season,
- O adorable Face, scorched by the sun and bathed in sweat during journeys,
- O adorable Face, whose expression is all divine,
- O adorable Face, whose modesty and meekness attracted the righteous and sinners alike,
- O adorable Face, who would give a holy kiss to children after blessing them,
- O adorable Face, troubled and weeping at the tomb of Lazarus,
- O adorable Face, shining like the sun and radiant with glory on Mount Tabor,
- O adorable Face, saddened at the sight of Jerusalem and shedding tears over that ungrateful city,
- O adorable Face, lowered to the ground in the Garden of Olives and bearing the confusion of our sins,
- O adorable Face, covered with the sweat of blood,
- O adorable Face, kissed by the perfidious Judas,
- O adorable Face, whose holiness and majesty seized the soldiers with terror and overthrew them,
- O adorable Face, struck by an infamous servant, covered with a veil of ignominy and profaned by the sacrilegious hands of Your enemies,
- O adorable Face, soiled with spittle and bruised by so many slaps and blows,
- O adorable Face, whose divine gaze wounded the heart of Saint Peter with a stab of pain and love,
- O adorable Face, humiliated for us in the courts of Jerusalem,
- O adorable Face, who preserved Your serenity when Pilate pronounced the fatal judgment,
- O adorable Face, covered in sweat and blood, falling in the mud under the burden of the cross,
- O adorable Face, deserving of all our respect, homage and adoration,
- O adorable Face, wiped with a veil by a pious woman on the road to Calvary,
- O adorable Face, raised on the instrument of the most shameful torture,
- O adorable Face, whose forehead was crowned with thorns,
- O adorable Face, whose eyes were filled with blood,
- O adorable Face, whose divine mouth was filled with gall and vinegar,
- O adorable Face, whose hair and beard were torn out by the executioners,
- O adorable Face, which became like that of a leper,
- O adorable Face, whose incomparable beauty was obscured under the awful clouds of the sins of the world,
- O adorable Face, covered with the sad shadows of death,
- O adorable Face, perfumed by Mary and the holy women and covered with a shroud,
- O adorable Face, enclosed in the sepulcher,
- O adorable Face, who deigned to imprint Yourself on the holy shroud,
- O adorable Face, resplendent in glory and beauty on the day of the Resurrection,
- O adorable Face, dazzling with light at the moment of Ascension,
- O adorable Face, hidden in the Eucharist,
- O adorable Face, who will appear at the end of time in the air, with great power and majesty,
- O adorable Face, who will make sinners tremble and will fill the righteous with joy,
- O adorable Face, who in Heaven will be the eternal rapture of the Saints,
- Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
spare us, O Lord. - Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
graciously hear us, O Lord. - Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us.
Act of Reparation. – I greet Thee, I adore Thee and I love Thee, O Jesus my Saviour, covered with new outrages by blasphemers, and I offer Thee, in the Heart of the divine Mary, as incense and a sweet-smelling perfume, the homages of the Angels and of all the Saints, humbly beseeching Thee, by the virtue of Thy Holy Face, to repair and restore in me and in all men, Thy image disfigured by sin. Amen.