St. Veronica Prayer
to the Sacred Image of Jesus Christ
O My Jesus, Saint Veronica served You
on the
way to Calvary by wiping
Your beloved face with a towel on which
Your sacred image then appeared.
She protected this treasure,
and
whenever people touched it,
they were miraculously healed.
I ask her to pray for the growth of my ability
to see Your sacred image in
others,
to recognize their hurts,
to stop and join them on their difficult journeys,
and to feel the same compassion for them
as she did
for You.
Show me how to wipe their faces,
serve their needs, and heal their wounds,
reminding me that as I do this for them,
I also do
this for You.
Saint Veronica, pray for me.
Amen.
Prayer to St. Veronica
O Jesus, who in your cruel passion did become the reproach of men and the "Man
of Sorrows", I worship your Divine Face. Once it shone with the beauty and sweetness of the divinity; now for my sake it is
become as the face of a leper. Yet in that disfigured countenance I recognize your infinite love, and I am consumed with the
desire of loving you and making you loved by all mankind. The tears that streamed in such abundance from your eyes are to me
as precious pearls which I delight to gather, so that with their infinite worth I may ransom the souls of the poor sinners.
O Jesus, whose face is the sole beauty that ravishes my heart, I may not behold here on earth the sweetness of your glance, nor feel the ineffable tenderness of your kiss. To this I consent but I pray you to imprint in me your divine likeness, and I implore you to so inflame me with your love, that it may quickly consume me, and soon I may reach the vision of your glorious face in heaven!
Amen.
