The Eucharistic Holy Face Chaplet is best prayed in front of the Blessed Sacrament. This is a meditative prayer that will take you into the heart of Jesus when you contemplate it very deeply as you recite the words. To pray it with deep love, you need to learn a little more about this powerful prayer.
I love the Eucharistic Holy Face Chaplet; I have experienced this beautiful devotion as a wonderful prayer of intercession for priests. This prayer is most effective while in the adoration chapel, but it can be prayed anywhere.
The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration at the Saint Joseph Adoration Monastery have published this prayer in their Manual for Eucharistic Adoration, which can be purchased online. Their book of adoration prayers is well worth the investment. The Eucharistic Holy Face Chaplet was written by an anonymous Benedictine Monk of Perpetual Adoration, in Silverstream Priory, Stamullen, Co. Meath, Ireland.
The Eucharistic Holy Face Chaplet is a beautiful contemplative prayer that opens your heart to receive grace from the Lord by contemplating His Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist while also meditating on the eternal perfect love that exists between the Father and the Son. You will feel the healing power of God’s grace in your life and the lives of your loved ones through devotion to this prayer in adoration. It will help you to feel love for Jesus because the Eucharistic Holy Face Chaplet opens your heart and helps you to meditate on the Psalms.
Eucharistic Holy Face Chaplet Meditates on Scripture
The Eucharistic Holy Face Chaplet meditates on three verses in Psalms and a verse from the Gospel of John.
We begin by contemplating Psalms 41:3, recognizing the need to behold the face of God.
My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?
The second Psalm we meditate on is in chapter 26. Here we petition God in humility to show us His face and not decline our petition, recognizing we cannot enter into His presence without the right disposition.
My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O Lord, will I still seek. Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy servant.
Next we contemplate Psalms 84, verse 10, written by the sons of Korah. They pray, “O God, watch over our shield, and look upon the face of your anointed.” We contemplate the face of the anointed, the Eucharistic Face of Christ, the one who atones for the sins of mankind and saves us from eternal damnation, our Savior, our Messiah, our Lord.
O God, watch over our shield; look upon the face of your anointed.
Next, we contemplate the prayer of Jesus over his disciples when His hour had come. This is a long prayer, but we meditate on the first utterance when He asks the Father to give glory to Him so that He may glorify the Father. Our prayer imitates this prayer of Christ before His passion.
When Jesus had said this, he raised his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you."
The Poor Clares on the Power of the Eucharistic Holy Face Chaplet
The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration say that the Eucharistic Holy Face Chaplet is a powerful prayer of intercession for priests and it is most powerful when you pray it in the adoration chapel. The Eucharistic Holy Face Chaplet can be prayed on a regular set of rosary beads.
Eucharistic Holy Face Chaplet
Begin by Praying:
O sacred banquet in which Christ is received, the memory of His passion is renewed, the soul is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given us, Alleluia.
On each Our Father bead, pray:
My soul is thirsting for God, the strong and living God; when shall I enter and see the face of God? (Ps 41:3)
On the ten small decade beads, pray:
It is your Eucharistic face, O Lord, that I seek; hide not Your Eucharistic face from me. (Ps 26:8-9)
At the end of each decade, pray:
Behold, O God our protector, and look upon the face of Your Christ. (Ps 84:10)
Then pray:
Through Him, and with Him, and in Him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is Yours, almighty God and Father, forever and ever. AMEN.
Then pray 3 times:
Father, glorify the Eucharistic face of Your Son, that His Eucharistic face may glorify You. (Jn 17:1)
Hail Holy Queen
Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn, then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
℣. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God
℟. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ
Concluding Prayer
Let us pray. Almighty and everlasting God, who by the working of the Holy Spirit didst prepare both body and soul of the glorious virgin mother, Mary, that she might deserve to be made a worthy dwelling for Thy Son, grant that we who rejoice in her memory may, by her loving intercession, be delivered from present evils and from lasting death, through the same Christ our Lord. AMEN.
The Holy Face of Jesus Christ
The sweat cloth of Christ while He carried the cross is historically known as the “Veil of Veronica” or the “Vernicle”. This relic bears an image of the Holy Face of Jesus that miraculously appeared.
Church tradition honors the Holy Face of Jesus in the sixth Station of the Cross. In this station, Saint Veronica meets Jesus on His way to Calvary. Moved with emotion, she wipes the blood and sweat from his face with her veil, and afterward the miraculous imprint appears.
Although the Veil of Veronica is not recorded in the Bible, there has long been widespread belief that it existed, and evidence of this existence in as early as 692 A.D.
The Image of the Holy Face, much like the Shroud of Turin is not painted on the surface. In both images it is part of the cloth itself. Viewers can clearly see the image from certain angles but from other angles it is almost invisible.
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