I've tried to find this book for years....because I had two other books by this author that I really liked. Her name is listed merely as E. Seton. It makes one wonder if it was written by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, but I think the publisher would have said so if it had been. :)

I finally located it on interlibrary loan. Look at that beautiful cover. One can just stare into those Eyes, swollen by the beatings of His enemies, and in our hearts, offer Him our love and sympathy.

E. Seton writes of how St. Veronica had the enormous privilege of wiping the Face of Our Lord during His Passion with her veil. She says:

"Our Lord's first Veronica has an office which the Angels 'who desire to look into His Face' might envy. It is hers to remove tenderly from that Countenance which is the Light of all the world the dimness with which It has been oppressed. It is the office of reparation to comfort Him tenderly in His desolation Who is the one Sole Consolation, to bring some little happiness to the Uncreated Joy in His woe and disappointment. And the service done to Him is more than rewarded...."

Then she goes on to encourage us to be like Veronica...to meditate on His beautiful Face, His loving Face, that could convert people with a look, and think of all that He suffered for us. Then she says we can be like Veronica by offering our love and sympathy, and being rewarded just as the saint was.

What a grace that we can actually comfort Him by our love, and by uniting our sufferings to His!

Whether you are a man, a woman, or a child, it does not matter. Let us be other Veronicas!