The John-Henry Westen Show - A Prophesied Catholic Devotion for the Latter Days to Fight Totalitarianism

00:00:00.000 This devotion has helped me to see that if we just give God great adoration and go back to

00:00:06.240 Gregorian chant, that the enemy is just going to collapse because God will make it happen

00:00:11.480 because that's how we win.

00:00:20.060 Hey friends, the best laid plans of mice and men often go to naught as we've seen so much

00:00:26.900 in our world today. You know, when we try and fight the things with our own ingenuity, our hard work,

00:00:34.880 our political campaigns and so on, we so often end up with failure. God has a different plan.

00:00:42.080 Yes, he wants us to still work and to use the intelligence that he gave us, the hard work that

00:00:47.660 we're supposed to do. Yes, we're supposed to do all of that, but first and foremost, we're to go by

00:00:52.880 God's rules and he usually makes it very simple. Do you remember when the Israelites were fighting 0.93

00:00:58.260 as God told them to, but they would lose when Moses, while he was praying, lowered his hands.

00:01:06.220 As he raised them, they would be victorious. As he lowered them, they wouldn't be. That sounds kind

00:01:10.960 of odd, but that's what our Lord wanted. Our Lord wanted to show that the victory is his. It's coming

00:01:16.100 from him, not through the great fighters. And I'm sure there were great fighters among the Israelites,

00:01:20.640 but he wanted to show that the power came from him. So Aaron and Joshua held his hands up and they

00:01:27.800 were victorious. It's just like that throughout history. And so often we fail our Lord. Back in

00:01:35.900 the day when St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was asked to tell the praying of France, let's put the image of

00:01:43.920 the sacred heart of Jesus on the armaments, on the shields and the weapons of the French soldiers.

00:01:49.520 France will be victorious. Our Lord will give France victory. Well, for a hundred years, 0.95

00:01:55.960 the King of France didn't do that. The Kings of France failed to do that. And then came the French 0.82

00:02:02.160 Revolution. The King of France, of course, was removed from his palace with his family and

00:02:08.360 eventually killed. We had a similar thing happen back in 1917. Our Lady came to warn, to bring Heaven's 0.95

00:02:17.360 warning that unless Russia was converted by being consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary,

00:02:27.620 that Russia would spread her errors throughout the world. The Heaven specifically called on the Pope 0.99

00:02:35.000 in union with the bishops of the world to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

00:02:39.740 Guess what? It wasn't done. It wasn't done for over 50 years. In fact, it wasn't done really at all

00:02:51.620 until very recently. And even that 83 consecration that was done by Pope John Paul II, it failed to

00:02:59.580 mention Russia specifically as was demanded by Our Lady. And in that intervening time,

00:03:04.980 Russia did spread her errors all throughout the world. And that's the same communism that we are 0.94

00:03:12.560 facing all over the world. It's not only communism, it's a communism that has become global. It's

00:03:17.960 manifested not only in China, but it's in all of the West. All of the nonsense we're experiencing

00:03:22.260 with the woke culture is communism. All of the effort to make world domination basically in the most

00:03:29.420 extreme form that was even imaginable, not even imaginable back in the day in 1917 for sure.

00:03:36.840 But we're facing it now. Do you know, there was a solution for communism given as well.

00:03:45.060 It's a very unknown devotion. It's called devotion to the Holy Face. It's actually quite simple.

00:03:51.940 We're going to find out about it. And why is the key to fighting this battle against communism,

00:03:59.940 which is worldwide right now, which we're facing. If you want to know the secret weapon,

00:04:04.780 stay tuned to this episode of the John Henry Weston Show.

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00:05:46.740 Now, Father Carney, you've written this book, The Secret of the Holy Faith, The Devotion,

00:05:52.020 Destined to Save Society. That's quite something. You know, in the intro, I talked about how heaven has

00:06:01.020 all these methods for us, which are totally outside the world. The world has, you know, there's scheming

00:06:08.120 and all sorts of the best laid plans of mice and men, if you will, to try and solve the great problems

00:06:13.700 of the universe. But heaven comes with very simple solutions, solutions that the world wouldn't think

00:06:20.940 of that really put God in charge. How does that concept get spelled out in this devotion of the

00:06:28.660 Holy Faith? Yeah, that's a very good question. Jesus said, if anyone wants to enter the kingdom of 0.97

00:06:34.460 heaven, he needs to become like a little child. And he held a child in his arms. He said, become like

00:06:40.080 one of these. So this devotion helps us to be a simple child, to fight the battles, because God revealed

00:06:52.260 to Sister Mary St. Peter, a blueprint of how to overcome the evils of this world today, especially

00:06:59.920 the revolution against God, which Jesus actually named as communism, as part of it. If we follow this 0.94

00:07:09.340 devotion that Jesus gave Sister Mary St. Peter, who was a humble nun in the 1840s, then we know that if we do

00:07:17.960 what God says, then he will fulfill the promises that he gave us. And this is just like in the Old

00:07:25.240 Testament, when the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, they started to do what God wanted them to do to the 0.99

00:07:34.420 know, and that's how they escaped. And that's a similar situation that we have now, because it seems like

00:07:43.060 the powers, the elites want to have world slavery. And one of the promoters of this devotion, his name

00:07:53.280 is Venerable Leota Pont, and he lived in tourism in the 1840s until he died around 1880. And he saw

00:08:02.700 that communist manifesto when it came out, and he said, if these revolutionary men have their way, the

00:08:10.000 whole world's going to be enslaved. And he said, the churches are going to be closed up. And he

00:08:14.200 mentioned this in the 1800s, way before it is kind of a dress rehearsal that we've seen in the last

00:08:20.200 few years. It's an amazing thing that heaven has these seemingly simple solutions. You see this when

00:08:31.420 Moses raised his hands, and the Israelite army was able to win. And as soon as he lowered them,

00:08:37.540 they weren't. And you know, he had Joshua and Aaron, I believe, holding up his hands. Very simple

00:08:46.040 things to demonstrate to mankind that God's in charge. What is the devotion to the Holy Face? What

00:08:53.880 is the Holy Face? And how are people meant to engage with this devotion? Devotion to the Holy Face of

00:09:02.160 Jesus is God. You give devotion to him. Venerable Leota Pont said that devotion to the sacred heart

00:09:10.960 represents the humanity of Jesus, and devotion to his face represents the divinity of Jesus. Devotion

00:09:18.700 to the Holy Face is old. But in the 1840s, Jesus gave Sister Mary St. Peter's revelations to give us

00:09:27.760 a more specific way to be devoted to his Holy Face. And the object of the devotion that Jesus left with us

00:09:36.560 is the Vella Veronica. This is the face of his passion. There's other miraculous faces that Jesus left,

00:09:44.840 like the Shroud of Turin, which deals with not the passion, but the death. And then there's the Vella

00:09:50.160 Montapello in Italy, which deals with the resurrection, because they think that was the napkin

00:09:55.380 that's mentioned in the gospel when St. John and St. Peter rushed to the tomb. So in these times,

00:10:04.760 1840s, Jesus told Sister Mary St. Peter that my father is greatly offended by two sins, and that is

00:10:14.880 blasphemy and propanation of Sundays and holy days of obligation. So this was in the 1840s. And Jesus said

00:10:22.680 to her, my father's not going to so much punish the human race with the elements, but he's going to

00:10:29.840 punish the human race with the scourge of revolutionary men. So that's the main point 0.71

00:10:34.640 of this devotion, because, you know, we know there's a world revolution going on against God.

00:10:41.440 It's a neo-paganism. But this devotion helps us to become wise, because we see that God is actually

00:10:48.000 the one giving us the curse, and he actually tells us how to get out of it. And that is to be

00:10:55.320 devoted to reparation, which is restoring the relationship between God our father and the

00:11:02.600 human race, because we keep sinning and offending God and turning our back on God. So we need to make

00:11:07.940 reparations so that his face can turn upon us and be benign and smile. And we need to turn to him and not

00:11:15.940 turn our backs on him and follow the Ten Commandments. So one of the things that this

00:11:21.400 devotion illustrates is how important it is to focus on the first three commandments. We almost

00:11:26.180 worship man instead of God. He's telling us in this devotion how we need to make reparation for

00:11:32.480 idolatry, which has even happened in the highest places in our church, for irreverence in the

00:11:38.080 sanctuaries, and to make reparation for blasphemy. And blessed Pius IX, he mentioned about

00:11:45.460 reparation. He said, reparation is destined to save society. So that's why I titled my book,

00:11:52.820 The Secret of the Holy Faith, The Devotion Destined to Save Society, because Jesus not only reveals that 0.88

00:11:59.400 to Sister Mary St. Peter, but Pope Pius IX even mentions that reparation is destined to save society.

00:12:07.380 Another part of this devotion is the three ends of sacrifice. So we know that they're

00:12:12.740 adoration, petition, and thanksgiving. But reparation is one of them that it seems like

00:12:20.100 we don't stress very much in our world and in our Catholic church. So this devotion helps us to become

00:12:26.520 very tender towards making that relationship between our human family and God to restore that. And the

00:12:35.180 devotion is the passion of our Lord. And to think of him crying and to think of him sweating in the mud

00:12:43.500 on his face and the blood and the crown of thorns. It just really helps us to become very tender

00:12:50.300 towards certain aspects of his passion. The origin story of this current revolution that seems all

00:13:00.940 encompassing that seems to have taken over the world, that really seems we're at the apex of not

00:13:09.440 only the world domination, the goal for one world government, it's kind of been a dream for all

00:13:17.480 sorts of people of power who thought they could control the whole wide world. We're there in a very

00:13:23.860 big way, like the world has never, ever seen before. The amount of control that they can have over

00:13:29.660 people, especially with the advent of AI and this delving down into everyone's secret lives,

00:13:38.160 you're being monitored 24-7. That kind of control was never even conceivable in the past, and yet it's

00:13:44.760 here. But even beyond that, we're at a point of heresy where the whole wide world has gone much more

00:13:53.380 so even than the Aryan heresy, because in the Aryan heresy, you at least had one heresy. Now we have

00:13:58.400 modernism sort of a, it's all the heresies altogether, and everybody at this point can see it, and it's

00:14:04.160 coming from all the levels of the church, quite literally. So we have this storm, and the Genesis 0.58

00:14:12.080 story of that, how in the world did we get here, is answered in what you just said, which is super

00:14:18.040 fascinating. Our Lord tells us that it was the blasphemy and the disregard for the Sabbath day

00:14:29.900 for Sundays as a holy day, really the offense against God in the first place. And that's so 0.97

00:14:36.180 interesting because it also follows exactly the progression of how we got here. Many people think

00:14:43.000 that, for instance, oh, the very first thing that happened was, well, we legalized contraception

00:14:48.980 and divorce, perhaps. And then it went from there to abortion, and then went from there to

00:14:53.840 homosexuality and same-sex marriage eventually, and now it's just at everything. But actually, no.

00:15:00.560 The very first thing we did was usually kick God out of public square. If you could speak to that part.

00:15:06.360 What we do in the sanctuary determines what happens in the world, because the holy sacrifice of the Mass

00:15:11.900 is the offering of Jesus Christ, who is a perfect God, to his Father. So it's a perfect offering to

00:15:21.240 make satisfaction for the offenses that we as a human family have committed against God. So if we have in

00:15:28.120 our sanctuary's true reverence, like getting back to the old Latin Mass, things like that, if we really

00:15:37.700 do believe that God is on the altar, then that is the source that will change the whole world. Just

00:15:44.380 like St. John Moriviani said, that if anyone knew the power of the priest, they were a cry of joy.

00:15:50.260 So the priest and a bishop, they're the most powerful people in the world spiritually. It's just,

00:15:56.280 down here, we've just forgotten our bearings that we have to follow the first three commandments. We can't

00:16:03.480 just make up, okay, well, God's going to let us just do what we want there. No, if we can't get the first

00:16:11.440 three commandments right, how can we get the last seven? So we got to go back to being more reverent, to

00:16:19.520 overcoming idolatry, with reparation, and by blessing the name of God. You know, this devotion,

00:16:27.840 as devotions in general make people tender towards certain aspects of God or his church,

00:16:33.520 this devotion has helped me and the people that I talk to about it see the Psalms of David and

00:16:39.940 in the Holy Scriptures, the holy face of God is mentioned 840 times in the holy name of God,

00:16:47.460 and how important it is to keep his commandments. It really has just opened that up to me because

00:16:52.140 at first I would pray the Psalms and these things would kind of gloss over. But when I got into this

00:16:58.060 devotion, it's really helped me to become, I should say, to see things as God does, which

00:17:03.440 the spiritual theologians say that that's wisdom. And when you see things as God does,

00:17:09.460 you become very peaceful in a time of tribulation. And so what I've seen in this devotion is just helps

00:17:14.660 me to see, wait a minute, God's behind all of this punishment. And in his providence,

00:17:19.540 he's so perfectly good that what is happening, he's permitting, is the greatest and quickest way

00:17:24.880 for the greatest good to happen. So when I tell people this that are just like the sky's falling,

00:17:30.880 and they're just, they're so disturbed, this devotion, and telling no providence is at hand here,

00:17:39.340 it brings them peace. And God does not want us to be so full of anxiety and agitation because that's

00:17:46.460 the work of the devil. That happens not only on this sort of global level that we're talking about

00:17:52.940 right now, it also happens personally because a lot of people are in just heartbreaking situations.

00:18:04.040 But to realize, just as you said there, that whatever is happening is God's perfect plan for

00:18:14.040 us, that the scriptures are really real when they talk about how all things work for good for those

00:18:19.660 who love him, that what is happening to us, despite the horror, it is God's perfect plan for us that

00:18:25.580 will bring us to salvation better and faster than anything else, is an immense consolation.

00:18:32.600 You know, if we just worship God and give him,

00:19:02.580 you know, I work for some Benedictines of Mary, nuns, queen of apostles, they chant the divine office,

00:19:08.280 Gregorian chant eight times a day. And you know, if we really got serious about giving great reverence

00:19:15.580 to God and the holy sacrifice of the mass, it would change things. Because in the Old Testament,

00:19:20.580 King Jeroboam, he was greatly outnumbered by the enemy. And he put the singing man in the vanguard.

00:19:28.300 What did they do? They were chanting the Psalms of his grandfather, David. And they were chanting,

00:19:33.900 great is the mercy of God, his mercy endureth forever. And so what did the enemy do? When they

00:19:38.560 saw this vanguard of singing men, it was like their camp was destroyed and they started to fight against

00:19:44.380 each other. So this devotion has helped me to see that if we just give God great adoration and go back

00:19:52.000 to Gregorian chant, that the enemy is just going to collapse because God will make it happen.

00:19:57.880 Because that's how we win. And we want to win for God. We want to give him greater reverence.

00:20:03.340 And I tell people when I promote the devotion to the holy face, you know, this is so much fun because

00:20:08.100 I'm promoting God. The one thing that God created us for was right worship. And so this devotion helps

00:20:15.380 us to have a greater understanding of how to approach God with awe and to give honor to his

00:20:22.220 name. And it's a practice for hopefully the beatific vision for us. Seeing the face of God

00:20:27.620 Jesus gave us, our father gave us in the nativity of the passion, death and resurrection, to see his

00:20:34.400 face is a practice, is practice for seeing the beatific vision. What St. Thomas says is the greatest

00:20:41.700 gift God can give to a preacher is to see him face to face. So this devotion, when I first discovered

00:20:49.120 it, I didn't know how rich it was going to be. I've been studying it for like six or seven years now,

00:20:55.860 and it just keeps giving more and more treasures. It's like you find a treasure box and you've just

00:21:02.280 put the shovel on the top of the box. You've hit it. I think that's where I'm at with this devotion.

00:21:07.460 I can't wait to unlock it, open it up and see the rest of the secrets God wants to give us.

00:21:13.380 And my goal is to promote this so that a million people get enrolled in the arch confraternity of

00:21:20.920 the Holy Face. Now, people may ask, Father Carnie, what is the arch confraternity of the Holy Face?

00:21:27.980 Well, it's a spiritual army that it was first a confraternity by the Archbishop of Tours,

00:21:35.100 and he petitioned Pope Leo XIII to make it an arch confraternity, which his holiness did by the

00:21:44.100 grace of God in 1885. And some of the first members to sign up were St. Charles of Lisieux of the

00:21:50.500 Little Childies and of the Holy Face, and Zellie and Louis Martin, St. Zellie and Louis Martin now,

00:21:58.000 her mom and dad. And this arch confraternity has six requirements. This is what's really important,

00:22:08.940 John Henry. This is very important. Whenever heaven tells us to do something, we should do it exactly as

00:22:14.620 it says. And Jesus told Sister Mary, St. Peter, I want this to have a canonical foundation before

00:22:20.780 it's going to have any fruit. And that's when I saw that. I saw, wow, this is canonically founded.

00:22:26.700 This is of the church. This is of a pope. It gives us these specific things. First,

00:22:32.740 join the confraternity by enrolling. Second, there's only six. Second is receive the enrollment papers.

00:22:39.620 Third is to wear an effigy, like a scapular or a cross or a medal. Fourth is to go to the monthly

00:22:50.920 meetings. Fifth is to promote it. And sixth is once a day to say in from the Psalms, the Lord show us

00:22:58.040 the face and we shall be saved. And then to say a potter, an Ave Maria, and a glory be. And that's it.

00:23:04.940 And I tell spiritual directors and people that are interested in this, tell your spiritual director,

00:23:09.800 if you have too much on your plate, this only adds one minute a day and maybe up to 30 minutes

00:23:15.060 once a month, go to the monthly meetings. What is a confraternity anyway?

00:23:20.980 It's a canonical group of people that has been established by something approved by the hierarchy

00:23:28.700 of the church to get together and to unite on a certain front. And they usually produce statutes

00:23:38.780 of how they're going to live as a confraternity. So it's con means to be with and fraternity brotherly,

00:23:45.740 to be with each other together. So in the Catholic church, we Catholics have a right to assemble

00:23:52.560 together with doing things, of course, that are upstanding and moral because we're crazy. We're 0.95

00:23:59.880 a church. So that's basically what a confraternity is. And it's important. There's different levels

00:24:05.460 in canon law. Some of them are private, some of them are public, and then some become of diocesan

00:24:10.640 right and then papal right. So this large confraternity obviously is of papal right. So it's the highest

00:24:15.780 form of the canonical union of people within the Catholic church.

00:24:18.940 Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you stumbled into this in the first place.

00:24:24.640 Sure. So I was ordained a priest in Wichita, Kansas in 2007. After six years, I took a sabbatical

00:24:34.160 and went on a Camino in Spain. And I wore my cassock. And about a thousand people talked to me over

00:24:44.120 those 32 days about God. It was really awesome. So I came back to the States and was discerning

00:24:49.800 with my bishop what I should do. And I got invited to become the chaplain of these nuns

00:24:55.640 in Gower, Missouri. And I said, I need to be able to keep walking because what happened on the Camino,

00:25:01.900 I should take the States. So I went to St. Joseph, Eta Adiosif, go to Joseph, St. Joseph, Missouri.

00:25:07.600 And I walked around for five years and people began to talk to me. And I was just, it came

00:25:14.220 to me after six months that, wait a minute, this is one of the ways Jesus did it during

00:25:18.160 his public ministry. He just started walking around. I did that for a while. And then one

00:25:23.480 of the nuns, her name is Sister Scholastica. I had started a community of men at the time

00:25:30.980 and I was writing a newsletter. I said, what should I write about? She said, write about the

00:25:34.380 holy face. Now this nun is very holy. She's not really allowed to talk to me very much

00:25:39.860 except like during Christmas and special times. So when she says something, I really take it

00:25:45.780 to note. So when I started to read about this devotion, I saw that November 11th was a very

00:25:53.760 important day of it because St. Martin of Tours is where this devotion really developed. And

00:26:00.040 that's my birthday, November 11th. So St. Martin of Tours is a patron of this as long

00:26:05.340 also with St. Michael the Archangel and St. Louis the King of France. So I've been promoting

00:26:12.260 this devotion now for about five years. And it's such a joy to be able to do it with people

00:26:18.240 like you. And last year, my Bishop of Wichita asked me to move back because there's a project

00:26:25.240 that we hope to do with the nuns coming here someday. And I also continue to walk the streets

00:26:31.500 and I have a chance to continue to promote the devotion to the holy face. So that's pretty

00:26:38.940 much my life. I walk around and propagate the faith. I say the old traditional Latin mass 0.99

00:26:45.320 and then I promote this arch-compaternity of the holy face and trying to get a million people

00:26:50.140 before I die. And I'm inspired by that because St. Louis de Montfort wrote a book called The

00:26:55.200 Secret of the Holy Face, where he talked about Blessed Alan de la Roche, who was a Dominican

00:27:02.540 who was commissioned by the Blessed Virgin Mary to promote the rosary because it almost died.

00:27:09.780 And he was like a second apostle of the rosary. And he died in 1475, but he got 100,000 people

00:27:16.860 to enroll in the compaternity. So this devotion is very similar to the rosary. It almost died too.

00:27:23.800 But our Lord told Sister Mary St. Peter that this devotion will grow cool over some time,

00:27:29.120 but there will be some apostles in the latter times who will reinvigorate it and promote it.

00:27:34.460 So I really feel like that's where we're at, is people like yourself and so many people are getting

00:27:40.220 behind this devotion because once people start to see how powerful it is and how it is a devotion

00:27:46.480 for our times, because it's about the face of God, the image of God. And the enemy is doing things

00:27:52.920 like wanting to cover our faces. And it's just so many things like that. And, you know, to fight

00:27:58.440 against communism, not so much with tanks and missiles and becoming a president of the United

00:28:03.760 States or a governor of a state, but being the best Catholics we can be, God tells us in this

00:28:08.700 devotion how we can change the tide of history.

00:28:11.960 Beautiful. Father, today is February 21st. It is the feast day of the Holy Face. What's the

00:28:17.740 significance behind that day?

00:28:20.280 Yeah, the feast day of the Holy Face is always on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.

00:28:26.780 So Pope St. Pius X wanted it to be on that day, and then Blessed Pius XII extended it to the

00:28:35.920 universal church. So that is the day that we celebrate the mass of the Holy Face. And it's

00:28:44.260 such a fitting thing because we have this tug of war constantly going on between paganism and

00:28:50.600 between Christianity. You know, Mardi Gras and just getting drunk in New Orleans and eating to 0.97

00:28:56.020 gluttony is a pagan way of celebrating the day before Ash Wednesday. But the popes were seeing this and

00:29:03.000 they were saying, no, we need to focus on preparing for Lent. And why not prepare with the devotion to

00:29:09.380 the Holy Face of Jesus, starting to get our minds on meditating on his face throughout the different

00:29:15.960 stages of his passion. So that's why we have that mass. There's more and more people that are

00:29:23.060 asking their priests to celebrate it. I only have the Missal page insert for the Latin mass.

00:29:30.920 So I don't know if it exists in the Novus Ordo, but it's just a beautiful thing to start the day

00:29:37.000 before Lent. So we don't start off on like a paganism type of foot. We're Christians every day, not

00:29:45.560 some days of the year. Father, there's an aspect that I wanted to get into a little bit more,

00:29:52.300 and that is reparation. That is sort of the key to all of this. Define reparation for us,

00:30:00.000 if you will. Reparation means to repair the damage and the relationship between

00:30:07.520 the Trinity and the human family. So we can make reparation for our own sins, reparation for the

00:30:17.400 sins of priests and bishops, for the sins of Catholics, for the sins of pagans, for the sins of,

00:30:23.140 you know, non-Christians. So reparation is something that's destined to save society, 1.00

00:30:31.180 as the Pope said, and it's restoring that relationship. So we have to remember that

00:30:36.940 we're a human family, and we're responsible for each other, because Cain and Abel's story is very

00:30:41.720 clear. When Cain killed Abel, what did our Lord, what did God say? You know, where are you?

00:30:47.300 What have you done? Where's your brother? And he said, am I the master of my brother? I need to

00:30:52.660 take care of my own self. And that's not a charitable way. We should have fraternal charity.

00:30:58.220 So anyone that has a great amount of fraternal charity is a sign that they're in one of the

00:31:03.400 highest stages in a unitive way. So reparation is having a care for everyone, wanting everyone to

00:31:11.060 get to heaven, wanting to give God what is his due, which is called religion, to give God the honor and

00:31:18.200 reverence that's due to him. So reparation is making acts of penance, fasting, abstaining, doing prayers,

00:31:27.860 offering masses, holy hours in the spirit of reparation. And that helps to return that

00:31:37.400 broken relationship between God and the human family. Father, what an incredible way for us to

00:31:44.680 begin the day before Lent, to begin our Lent. And I'm sure a lot of people are going to have a

00:31:52.960 pancake or whatever else, and there's no sin in that in terms of also getting rid of your

00:31:57.360 sweets or whatever else you have at home before we start into Lent. But give us again, if you would,

00:32:05.440 the name of your book, how we can access it. The book is called The Secret of the Holy Face,

00:32:11.880 The Devotion Destined to Save Society. And it's put out by TAN Publishers. And TAN Publishers has a

00:32:19.820 website where you can go and buy it for them directly. And then how you can enroll into the

00:32:29.060 Arch-Concentrate of the Holy Face, the League of St. Martin, which is a pious association of faithful

00:32:34.040 that I started. We promote enrollment to the Holy Face, Arch-Concentrate of the Holy Face, and of the

00:32:41.220 Rosary. So if people type in League of St. Martin, they can go to our website and find out on the page

00:32:48.720 called Ecclesiastical Enrollments, so they can sign up for the Holy Face and sign up for the Rosary.

00:32:53.620 And the website is www.martinians.org. So I hope that a million people will go and sign up and become

00:33:04.680 members of this very beautiful army that St. Charles of Lisieux is a part of. Because isn't it beautiful

00:33:11.180 to have an Arch-Concentrate we can join? Because she is definitely working hard in heaven. She's saving 0.99

00:33:19.460 souls out there in heaven. And I think that when more and more people join this, there's going to be

00:33:25.340 a great superabundance of spiritual favors that God will bestow on our human family.

00:33:31.780 Father Lawrence, thank you so much. Before you go, would you mind giving us your blessing, please?

00:33:36.200 Absolutely. John Henry.

00:33:40.080 Dominus Hobiscum.

00:33:41.780 Et conspiritu tua.

00:33:43.820 Benediccia demli potentis patris et fili, spiritus han shindit super, vos et mania et sempec. Amen.

00:33:52.660 Amen. Thank you so much, Father, for all that you do, promoting the Holy Face, for walking around

00:33:58.880 and getting asked questions to answer them for the faith. God bless you.

00:34:01.880 Thank you, John Henry, for being a host and having me on your beautiful show.

00:34:08.780 And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.

00:34:31.880 May God bless you.

The John-Henry Westen Show - February 20, 2023

A Prophesied Catholic Devotion for the Latter Days to Fight Totalitarianism

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