Blowing Kisses to Jesus

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I’ve blown kisses to Jesus, A lot of times I kiss my finger tips and touch the feet on the Crucifix or I look at Jesus/Mary in my home and kiss my finger tips and touch my heart and say I love you. I thought everyone did this. I hope it’s something that catches on as its a little devotion in itself.
 
I actually started blowing kisses to Jesus a while ago as part of a Holy Face devotion 🙂

I haven’t been doing it with abandon though because as those guys say it feels a little silly in church, especially when it’s my own private devotion rather than something done by a group. I can see where young guys like these friars would be holding back.
 
I hope this catches on as a devotion, too! I’m kind of a burly dude, so this sort of thing isn’t typically my style, but I find it to be very powerful. I, too, like to aim them at my crucifix. 🙂
 
I totally get why most folks (including myself, honestly) would feel weird about doing this in public. But then when I think about it, I realize I’m committing the same sin that the good friars committed! Hopefully I won’t have to get a youtube channel in order to complete my penance 😉

Do you have a good resource for the Holy Face devotion? If you do, would you mind sharing it? And is blowing kisses to Jesus typically a part of that devotion?
 
The 12 disciples never did that.

As Jesus was crucified - perhaps the Pharisees did -

I’d never do that.
 
There is a woman who sings to Jesus during Adoration. Not loud but not softly either. At first I was terribly annoyed she is disturbing other people there who are worshipping in their own quiet way.
But then since St Therese’ example is always in my heart the best I could do is appreciate she is singing lovingly to our Lord vs blaspheming etc…
 
A good resource on Holy Face Devotion is at holyfacedevotion.com .

I started saying the Holy Face chaplet last year as part of a Novena led by Fr. Heilman. The chaplet is from Sr. Marie of St. Peter, but it contains a Holy Face Medal that is the version later promoted by Bl. Maria Pierina de Micheli. I was reading about the different versions of the medal and found this page about how Jesus said to Bl. Maria that he would like to be kissed on his Holy Face to make up for Judas’ kiss.

www.mysticsofthechurch.com

Maria Pierina de Micheli & The Holy Face of Jesus Devotion

Mystics of the Church website
www.mysticsofthechurch.com www.mysticsofthechurch.com

I already do this little thing while saying The “Look down upon me o Good and Gentle Jesus” Prayer after Communion where I cross myself 5 times contemplating His 5 Wounds during the prayer, so at the end now I blow a kiss to the crucifix for his face. I just do it quietly because I don’t want to make a show of myself after Communion.
 
I don’t see anything wrong with it. I usually bow if I am some distance away, though I will kiss his feet if I am walking the stations of the cross on the 12th or 13th station. At another church where the stations are too high, I kiss my hand and touch his feet.
 
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The 12 disciples never did that.
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God - would NOT have wanted that done - as Jesus hung dying.
It seems an effeminate gesture -
A gesture that little school kids on Valentine’s day might make -
NOT grown men who were traveling the hostile land on foot.
Psalms does say KISS the Son - not blow Him a Judas kiss - lol
Some people have too much time on their hands.
Read the ancient fathers - instead.
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Actually, “blowing kisses” originated as a way to honor pagan gods in Mesopotamia, about 3500 BC, and persisted among many of the pagan religions. I have read that one of the Greek words for “worship” used repeatedly in the NT is “proskuneo” which literally means “to kiss toward”. I don’t know if the Apostles would have blown kisses to Jesus because of the association of the custom with the pagans, but it wasn’t considered an effeminate custom at the time.

I do know that Roman men would greet one another with a kiss (you see this in the NT letters, “Greet one another with a holy kiss”) based on social rank. Social equals kissed on the cheek as Judas did to Jesus. If you were kissing someone way above you like the emperor, you kissed his foot.
 
I don’t blow kisses to Him.

I either try to kiss Christ’s feet on the cross or, When I can’t do this, I kiss the tip of my finger and touch His feet.
 
Now that you mention it, I’ve done that sort of thing for a long while. For some reason, actually blowing kisses to Jesus seems very different to me. I think part of it is that I associate kissing the cross directly with Good Friday, which gives it a much more somber feeling. Blowing kisses to Jesus, according to the friars in the video, is about worshiping the Lord freely and with child-like abandon instead. I totally resonate with their take on this devotion, which is surprising to me since my focus has been on the LOTH for a while now.
 
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