The Novena: To The Holy Face - Starts on Feb 8 2026

The Novena: To The Holy Face
Novena Begins : Sunday February 8, 2026
Novena Ends: Monday February 16, 2026
Feast of the Holy Face: Fecruary
Novena to the Holy Face — League of St. Martin
FIRST DAY
The Holy Face at Bethlehem
At the commencement say: Lord, I desire to seek thy Face; do not Thou repel me far from it on account of my sins; do not remove Thy Holy Spirit from me. Let the light of Thy Face shine upon me; teach me in the way of Thy commandments.
Enter into the grotto at Bethlehem, consider the newborn Child, laid in the cradle, wrapped in poor swaddling clothes. Mary and Joseph stand before him and contemplate him. You also gaze upon his sweet and radiant Face. It is the Face of the Emmanuel, of the Son of “God with us”; of the “most beautiful of the children of men”. During four thousand years the patriarchs and prophets had desired to see it; they earnestly entreated for it as the salvation promised to the world.
“Lord,” they unceasingly exclaimed, “Show us Thy Face, and …More