_"If you ask the Father anything in My Name, He will give it you."_-- John 16:23.

O Eternal Father, Thy Only-Begotten Son, the dear Child Jesus, belongs to me since Thou hast given Him. I offer Thee the infinite merits of His Divine Childhood, and I beseech Thee in His Name to open the gates of Heaven to a countless host of little ones who will for ever follow this Divine Lamb.

_"Just as the King's image is a talisman through which anything may be purchased in his Kingdom, so through My Adorable Face--that priceless coin of my Humanity--you will obtain all you desire."_ Our Lord to Sister Mary of St. Peter.[7]

Eternal Father, since Thou hast given me for my inheritance the Adorable Face of Thy Divine Son, I offer that Face to Thee, and I beg Thee, in exchange for this _coin_ of infinite value, to forget the ingratitude of those souls who are consecrated to Thee, and to pardon all poor sinners.

[7] Sister Mary of St. Peter entered the Carmel of Tours in 1840. Three years later she had the first of a series of revelations concerning devotion to the Holy Face as a means of reparation for blasphemy. See _Life of Léon Papin-Dupont,_ known as "The Holy Man of Tours."