~ The Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus ~ In 1958, Pope Pius XII declared the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus for all Roman Catholics to be the day before Ash Wednesday (Shrove Tuesday). The primary purpose of the devotion is to make reparation for sins against the first three commandments: Denial of God (atheism / communism), Blasphemy, and the profanation of Sundays and Holy Days The devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus, based on the life and writings of Sr. Marie of St. Peter, was eventually appr

From the Apostolic Constitution of Blessed Pope Pius IX solemnly defining the dogma of the Immaulate Conception, 8 December 1854: "Accordingly, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, for the honor of the Holy and undivided Trinity, for the glory and adornment of the Virgin Mother of God, for the exaltation of the Catholic Faith, and for the furtherance of the Catholic religion, by the authority of Jesus Christ our Lord, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own: "We declare, pronoun