Veronica wipes the face of Jesus

Fr Gerard Bogan

There is a legend that on his way to the cross, a woman takes pity on Jesus and wipes his face.
The image of his face is left imprinted on the towel.
Her name Veronica means ‘the true image’.

We are smiled upon by the invisible God, and this is mirrored in our faces.
As children we learn to smile by being smiled at by our parents and others.

In Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote, the priest calls the human face – the mirror image of God

 Pope Francis said – Here this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.

 We are the body of Christ and so we must be his face.

Excerpt from Stations of the Cross by Timothy Radcliffe