HOLY FACE PRAYER - Feast of the Holy Face is on Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras) “I Fainted From Fright”: Jesus’ Revelations About the Sins Committed During Mardi Gras Every year during the month of February …More
HOLY FACE PRAYER - Feast of the Holy Face is on Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
“I Fainted From Fright”: Jesus’ Revelations About the Sins Committed During Mardi Gras
Every year during the month of February, different cultures around the world celebrate Carnival, or Mardi Gras.
This celebration takes place the two days before Ash Wednesday, the date that marks the beginning of Lent for Catholics.
Various saints, including St. Philip of Neri and St. John Bosco tried promoting activities that would reconcile this celebration with the Catholic faith, especially due to the contradiction between the austerity of the Lenten spirit and the excesses of Mardi Gras (Carnival).
However, St. Faustina Kowalska and St. Margaret Mary Alacoque experienced visions of Christ on the Cross and the sins committed on these days.
The visions of Jesus about Mardi Gras
St. Faustina recounts three times in her diary the revelations she had during the time of this celebration. In Feb. 1933, St. Faustina said, “My …More
“I Fainted From Fright”: Jesus’ Revelations About the Sins Committed During Mardi Gras
Every year during the month of February, different cultures around the world celebrate Carnival, or Mardi Gras.
This celebration takes place the two days before Ash Wednesday, the date that marks the beginning of Lent for Catholics.
Various saints, including St. Philip of Neri and St. John Bosco tried promoting activities that would reconcile this celebration with the Catholic faith, especially due to the contradiction between the austerity of the Lenten spirit and the excesses of Mardi Gras (Carnival).
However, St. Faustina Kowalska and St. Margaret Mary Alacoque experienced visions of Christ on the Cross and the sins committed on these days.
The visions of Jesus about Mardi Gras
St. Faustina recounts three times in her diary the revelations she had during the time of this celebration. In Feb. 1933, St. Faustina said, “My …More
