Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ:

It is with joyful soul, but sadness in heart and mind that I present to you a meditation of reparation that I ask you all to make at the bequest of my own angel guardian and the pressing imminence of future events that are about to unfold.

The Musical Score
This music is to be sung as an act of reparation that can most fruitfully be made by those pure hearts in a state of grace as a result of the blasphemies, outrages and indifferences against our most Holy God, Jesus Christ, especially in the Eucharist that are multiplying daily.

I have posted here a copy of the score in PDF format so that choirs may take on this request, an MP4 so that individuals can sing this even in private devotion. (I have also included PDF scores of cantus/keyboard cantus alone. They are in the Key of D for easier singing by all)

Also attached are the three images Christ left with us to the end of time, those true images of his Passion (The Veil of Seraphina (Veronica), Death (Shroud of Turin) and Ressurrection (Veil of Mannopelo). I have created a high resolution PDF so that you can print them out and frame them or post them in your residence, office and choir loft/sacristy.

The Texts
“The Golden Arrow” is a prayer that Jesus gave to Sister Marie of St. Peter in August of 1843 in France. Sister Marie, a Carmelite nun, spoke of it as “an Act of Praise that Our Lord Himself dictated to me, notwithstanding my unworthiness, for the reparation of Blasphemy against His Holy Name.

While opening His Heart to her, Jesus complained bitterly of blasphemy. He said that this most grievous sin was the sin that most offends the divine Majesty; more than all other sins, for it was like “a poisoned arrow.”

Then He dictated what He called “The Golden Arrow” prayer. He told Sister Mary that He would be most delightfully pierced by those who would recite this prayer, and that in addition, it would also heal those other wounds inflicted on Him by the malice of sinners.

The Golden Arrow
“May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God be forever praised, blessed, loved, adored, and glorified in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.

Eternal Father, I offer Thee the adorable Face of Thy Beloved Son Jesus for the honor and glory of Thy Name, for the conversion of sinners and the salvation of the dying.

O Jesus, through the merits of your Holy Face, have pity on us, and on the whole world.” (3X)

In closing the meditation, I also added a scripture taken from Isaiah, chapter 53 verse 3; the famous passage that forshadowed the suffering Christ.

“He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.”

Please consider this plea most seriously. It takes only five minutes of your time to complete this prayer.

In JMJ,

Francis Koerber
Composer

Link to MP4 Demonstration

http://www.myopus.com/preview/adOfTheHolyFace.mp4