When a man’s name is reviled, it is reflected on his face. Consider the Holy Face of Our Lord in His Passion; stained, bloody, bruised, covered with filth, dust, and spittle. These indignities suffered by Our Lord represent the sins against the first three Commandments. Blasphemy, the disrespect of God and sacred things, atheism, and the profanation of the Holy Name and the Holy Day of Sunday are the greatest sins against God ans are reflected in the Holy Face of Jesus Christ. How can we console Him?
Our Lord told Blessed Maria Pierina De Micheli, Daughter of the Immaculate Conception, “I firmly wish that My Face reflecting the intimate pains of My Soul, the suffering and love of My Heart, be more honored. Whoever gazes upon Me, already consoles Me...”
The mystery of the sorrowful Face of Christ was also revealed to Sr. Marie St. Pierre, a Carmelite nun of Tours, France. The Lord made her see that the Church, His spouse, is His mystical body and that religion is the face of His body, which is the target for the enemies of His Name. “I saw,” she said “through this illuminationm that the impious by... evil words, and blaspheming the Holy Name of God, spit in the Face of the Savior and cover it with mud; that all the blows given by sectarians to the Holy Church and to religion, are a renewal of the numberless blows which were inflicted on the Face of Our Lord ...”
After giving Sr. Marie St. Pierre this revelation, the Savior said to her: “I seek for Veronicas to wipe and honor My Divine Face, for It has few worshippers... As for you, I give you MY FACE, in order to recompense the great desires you have conceived in your heart. I give it to you in the name of My Father, in the virtue of the Holy Spirit, in the presence of the angels and of the saints; I make this gift to you by the hands of My Most Holy Mother and St. Veronica who will teach you how to honor It... Henceforth, if any do not recognize My work in this, it will be because they close their eyes to it.”