~ 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