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   June 19th - Saint Juliana Falconieri, Virgin   
      
   Saint Juliana Falconieri was born in 1270, in answer to prayer. Her father   
   was   
   the builder of the splendid church of the Annunziata in Florence, while her   
   uncle, Saint Alexis Falconieri, became one of the seven Founders of the   
   Servite   
   Order. Under his surveillance Juliana grew up "more like an angel than a   
   human   
   being," as he said. Her great modesty was remarkable; never during her   
   entire   
   lifetime did she look at her reflection in a mirror. The mere mention of sin   
   made her shudder and tremble, and once, on hearing of a scandal, she   
   fainted.   
      
   Her devotion to the sorrows of Our Lady drew her to the Servants of Mary or   
   Servite Order, and at the age of fourteen, after refusing an offer of   
   marriage,   
   she received the habit from Saint Philip Benizi, General of the Order. Her   
   sanctity attracted many novices, for whose direction she was bidden to draw   
   up a   
   rule, and thus she became foundress of the Mantellate.   
      
   She was the servant of her Sisters rather than their mistress, while outside   
   her   
   convent she led a life of apostolic charity, converting sinners, reconciling   
   enemies, and healing the sick. She was sometimes rapt for whole days in   
   ecstasy,   
   and her prayers saved the Servite Order when it was in danger of being   
   suppressed.   
      
   Saint Juliana in her old age suffered various painful illnesses. She was   
   wasting   
   away through a disease of the stomach which prevented her taking food, and   
   bore   
   her silent agony with constant cheerfulness, grieving only for the privation   
   of   
   Holy Communion. At last, when in her seventieth year she was at the point of   
   death, she begged to be allowed once more to see and adore the Blessed   
   Sacrament. It was brought to her cell and reverently laid on a corporal,   
   which   
   was placed over her heart. At this moment she expired, and the Sacred Host   
   disappeared. After her death the form of the Host was found stamped upon her   
   heart, at the exact spot over which the Blessed Sacrament had been placed.   
   Saint   
   Juliana died in her convent in Florence in 1340. Miracles have been   
   frequently   
   effected through her intercession.   
      
   Reflection. "Meditate often," says Saint Paul of the Cross, "on the sorrows   
   of   
   the Blessed Mother, sorrows inseparable from those of Her beloved Son. If   
   you   
   seek the Cross, there you will find the Mother; and where the Mother is,   
   there   
   also is the Son."   
      
   Source: Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, a compilation based on   
   Butler's   
   Lives of the Saints, and other sources by John Gilmary Shea (Benziger   
   Brothers:   
   New York, 1894).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the   
   fault-finding of men.  He will easily be content and pacified, whose   
   conscience   
   is pure.  You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if   
   you   
   are found fault with.  What you are, that you are; neither by word can you   
   be   
   made greater than what you are in the sight of God.   
   --St. Thomas à Kempis   
      
   Bible Quote   
   And he said to them: You are they who justify yourselves before men, but God   
   knoweth your hearts; for that which is high to men, is an abomination before   
   God.   (Luke 16:15)   
      
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   Litany of the Sacred Face   
      
   Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us.   
   Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.   
      
   God, the Father of Heaven, Have mercy on us. God, the Son, Redeemer of the   
   world, Have mercy on us. God, the Holy Ghost,  Have mercy on us.   
      
   Sacred Face of Jesus, object of the eternal complacency of the Father,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, bathed in tears in Your holy infancy,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, beautiful above all the children of men,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, adored by all the Angels and Saints in Heaven,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, delight of pure souls,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, mirror of the divine perfection,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, exposed for our sakes to the heat of the sun   
   and inclemency of seasons while on earth, I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, sorrowful and weeping at the grave of Lazarus,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, saddened at the sight of Jerusalem,   
   and shedding tears over that guilty city, .I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, pressed to the earth in the garden of Olives,   
   and bearing the confusion due to our sins, I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, covered with sweat and blood,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, suffering the traitor's kiss,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, whose majesty cast to the ground an armed multitude,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, struck, blindfolded, and profaned by impious hands,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, bruised and spit upon in Your Passion,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, whose look of tender reproach wounded   
   the heart of Peter with sorrow and love,  .I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, humbled for us in the tribunals of Jerusalem,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, falling in the mire under the weight of the Cross,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, wiped by the veil of Veronica on the way to Calvary,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, raised up on the shameful gibbet for our Redemption,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, wounded for our iniquities and bruised for our sins,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, covered with the shade of death,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, beautiful in Your disfigurement and noble in Your   
   shame,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, covered with a shroud and laid in the tomb,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, hidden in the Holy Eucharist,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, still outraged by the wicked,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, scorned and blasphemed by the impious,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, too often forgotten by those who call themselves   
   Your friends, .I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, in whose presence so many shameful sins are omitted,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, which will be seen at the end of time in great majesty   
   and dazzling beauty,  .I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, whose beauty will ravish the blessed for ever,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, the sunshine of our exile here below,   
   I adore and love You.   
   Sacred Face of Jesus, the countenance of God and the seal of the divinity,   
   I adore and love You. - Amen.   
      
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