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The 24 Hours of the PassionOf Our Lord Jesus Christby Luisa PiccarretaLittle Daughter of the Divine Will
HOURS OF THE PASSIONOF OUR LORD JESUS CHRISTLuisa Piccarreta"The Little Daughter of the Divine Will"" The satisfaction that blessed Jesus receives from the meditation of these Hours is so great, that He would wantat least one copy of these meditations to be present and practiced in each city or town. In fact, it would happen, then,as if Jesus heard His own voice and His prayers being reproduced in those reparations, just as the ones He raised toHis Father during the 24 hours of His sorrowful Passion. And if this were done in each town or city at least, by asmany souls, Jesus seems to make me understand that Divine Justice would be placated in part, and in these sad timesof torments and bloodshed, Its scourges would be stopped, in part, and as though dampened. I let you, reverendFather, make appeal to all; may you complete, in this way, the little work that my lovable Jesus had me do "(from a letter of Luisa to her extraordinary Confessor,Blessed Annibale M. di Francia)TABLE OF CONTENTSPART I - Preface by Blessed Annibale Preface, by Blessed Annibale M. di Francia . p. 1About the first editions of the Hours of the Passion and the ‘pious Author’ . p. 3Overview of the Writings of the ‘pious Author’ of the Hours of the Passion . p. 6Exhortation . p. 7How these Hours can be done . p. 8Scheme of the 24 Hours of the Passion . p. 9Value and Effects of the Hours of the Passion from a letter of Luisa and from her Writings . p. 10PART II - The 24 Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Preparation before each Hour . p. 21Thanksgiving after each Hour . p. 21First Hour (from 5 to 6 pm) Jesus takes leave of his Most Holy Mother . p. 21Second Hour (from 6 to 7 pm) Jesus sets out for the Cenacle . p. 24Third Hour (from 7 to 8 pm) The Legal Supper . p. 27Fourth Hour (from 8 to 9 pm) The Eucharistic Supper . p. 30Fifth Hour (from 9 to 10 pm) First Hour of Agony in the Garden . p. 37Sixth Hour (from 10 to 11 pm) Second Hour of Agony in the Garden. p. 40Seventh Hour (from 11 pm to midnight) Third Hour of Agony in the Garden . p. 44-i-
Eighth Hour (from midnight to 1am) Jesus is arrested . p. 51Ninth Hour (from 1 to 2 am) Jesus falls into the Cedron stream . p. 54Tenth Hour (from 2 to 3 am) Jesus is presented to Annas . p. 55Eleventh Hour (from 3 to 4 am) Jesus in the house of Caiphas . p. 57Twelfth Hour (from 4 to 5 am) Jesus at the mercy of the soldiers . p. 59Thirteenth Hour (from 5 to 6 am) Jesus in prison . p. 61Fourteenth Hour (from 6 to 7 am) Jesus before Caiphas again, condemned to death . p. 64Fifteenth Hour (from 7 to 8 am) Jesus before Pilate who sends Him to Herod . p. 66Sixteenth Hour (from 8 to 9 am) Jesus back to Pilate, placed after Barabbas, and scourged . p. 68Seventeenth Hour (from 9 to 10 am) Crowned with thorns, “Ecce Homo”, condemned . p. 71Eighteenth Hour (from 10 to 11 am) Jesus takes up his Cross . p. 76Nineteenth Hour (from 11 am to 12 pm) Jesus is crucified . p. 82Twentieth Hour (from 12 to 1 pm) First Hour of Agony on the Cross . p. 90Twenty-first Hour (from 1 to 2 pm) Second Hour of Agony on the Cross . p. 94Twenty-second Hour (from 2 to 3 pm) Third Hour of Agony on the Cross, death of Jesus . p. 98Twenty-third Hour (from 3 to 4 pm) Jesus, dead, pierced by the lance . p. 102Twenty-fourth Hour (from 4 to 5 pm) The burial of Jesus, Most Desolate Mary . p. 104PART III - Selections of Chapters About The Passion of Our LordThe Divine Passion of Jesus Introductory note . p. February 4, 1919 - Volume 12 . p. March 18, 1919 - Volume 12 . p. March 20, 1919 - Volume 12 . p. May 8, 1919 - Volume 12 . p. June 4, 1919 - Volume 12 . p. August 19, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. February 16, 1923 - Volume 15 . p. May 29, 1923 - Volume 15 . p.113113114115116117118119120The Sorrows and Sufferings of Mary Most Holy October 3, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. March 23, 1923 - Volume 15 . p. April 28, 1926 - Volume 19 . p. July 11, 1926 - Volume 19 . p. August 22, 1926 - Volume 19 . p.121121122123125Chapters Referring to Each of the 24 HoursFirst Hour, from 5 to 6 pm: October 3, 1903 - Volume 5 . p. 126-ii-
November 28, 1920 - Volume 12 . p. 127July 6, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. 128Second Hour, from 6 to 7 pm: May 9, 1913 - Volume 11 . p. 128Third Hour, from 7 to 8 pm: October 9, 1921 - Volume 13 . p. 129Fourth Hour, from 8 to 9 pm: November 4, 1926 - Volume 20 . p. June 18, 1923 - Volume 15 . p. March 24, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. July 6, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. April 16, 1927 - Volume 21 . p.130131132133133Fifth Hour, from 9 to 10 pm: November 25, 1909 - Volume 9 . p. 134 November 20, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. 135 October 30, 1924 - Volume 17 . p. 136Sixth Hour, from 10 to 11 pm: July 28, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. 137 January 4, 1924 - Volume 16 . p. 138Seventh Hour, from 11 pm to Midnight: November 19, 1921 - Volume 13 . p. 139 April 8, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. 141Eighth Hour, from Midnight to 1 am: November 16, 1921 - Volume 13 . p. 142 March 18, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. 142Ninth Hour, from 1 to 2 am: January 22, 1913 - Volume 11 . p. 143Tenth Hour, from 2 to 3 am: May 31, 1899 - Volume 2 . p. 144Eleventh Hour, from 3 to 4 am: December 22, 1910 - Volume 10 . p. 145-iii-
January 28, 1911 - Volume 10 . p. 145September 4, 1918 - Volume 12 . p. 145April 7, 1919 - Volume 12 . p. 146Twelfth Hour, from 4 to 5 am: March 19, 1901 - Volume 4 . p. 146 January 2, 1919 - Volume 12 . p. 147Thirteenth Hour, from 5 to 6 am: December 4, 1918 - Volume 12 . p. 147 October 29, 1921 - Volume 13 . p. 148 December 3, 1926 - Volume 20 . p. 149 December 25, 1926 - Volume 20 . p. 149Fourteenth Hour, from 6 to 7 am: September 21, 1921 - Volume 13 . p. 150Fifteenth Hour, from 7 to 8 am: November 22, 1921 - Volume 13 . p. 150 June 1, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. 151 December 1, 1922 - Volume 15 . p. 152 July 5, 1923 - Volume 15 . p. 153 September 16, 1921 - Volume 13 . p. 154 November 24, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. 154 January 4, 1927 - Volume 20 . p. 155Sixteenth Hour, from 8 to 9 am: April 1, 1922 - Volume 14 . February 9, 1922 - Volume 14 . January 14, 1924 - Volume 16 . July 1, 1924 - Volume 17 .p.p.p.p.155156157158Seventeenth Hour, from 9 to 10 am: October 12, 1903 - Volume 5 . p. April 24, 1915 - Volume 11 . p. August 19, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. March 6, 1903 - Volume 4 . p. June 20, 1926 - Volume 19 . p. October 3, 1928 - Volume 24 . p.159160160161162162Eighteenth Hour, from 10 to 11 am:-iv-
July 27, 1906 - Volume 7 . p.February 24, 1922 - Volume 14 . p.December 17, 1903 - Volume 6 . p.March 28, 1905 - Volume 6 . p.November 12, 1910 - Volume 10 . p.September 2, 1910 - Volume 9 . p.April 10, 1914 - Volume 11 . p.164164164165165166166Nineteenth Hour, from 11 am to 12 pm: November 18, 1913 - Volume 11 . p. 167 May 15, 1920 - Volume 12 . p. 167 June 6, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. 168 September 1, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. 169Twentieth Hour, from 12 to 1 pm: November 16, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. 170 October 21, 1925 - Volume 18 . p. 170Twenty-first Hour, from 1 to 2 pm: November 21, 1926 - Volume 20 . p. March 22, 1938 - Volume 35 . p. December 18, 1920 - Volume 12 . p. October 10, 1925 - Volume 18 . p. January 4, 1919 - Volume 12 . p. August 2, 1922 - Volume 14 . p. March 12, 1923 - Volume 15 . p.171171173173174174175Twenty-second Hour, from 2 to 3 pm: July 4, 1910 - Volume 9 . p. April 20, 1938 - Volume 36 . p. May 9, 1912 - Volume 11 . p. May 21, 1913 - Volume 11 . p. August 7, 1918 - Volume 12 . p. October 16, 1921 - Volume 13 . p.176176178178178179Twenty-third Hour, from 3 to 4 pm: July 4, 1910 - Volume 9 . January 27, 1919 - Volume 12 . February 26, 1922 - Volume 14 . April 12, 1928 - Volume 24 .180180181182-v-p.p.p.p.
Twenty-fourth Hour, from 4 to 5 pm: October 1914 - Volume 11 . p. 183 April 16, 1927 - Volume 21 . p. 183 November 24, 1923 - Volume 16 . p. 184-vi-
Part IPrefaceby Blessed Annibale M. di Francia
Prefaceby Saint Annibale M. di FranciaJ.M.J.A.Messina, October 29, 1926Intelligentes quae sit voluntas Dei.We begin, with this first printing, the publication of more than 20 handwritten volumes of sublimerevelations which, always excepting the judgments of the Holy Church, we piously believe to havebeen given by Our Lord Jesus Christ to a soul, a dearest daughter and disciple of His, who is thepious author of the Hours of the Passion.Even now we make known that these revelations, which are continuing and will continue, we don’tknow for how much longer, have as their goal the establishment of the complete Triumph of theKingdom of the Divine Will upon earth.Who is this beloved daughter and disciple of Our Lord, the author of the Hours of the Passion, who,up to now, has written 20 volumes of divine revelations?We cannot disclose her name and address because this would mean prostrating her to the most severeaffliction, and to the most deeply felt crushing of soul and body.She wants to live solitary, hidden and unknown. For no reason in the world would she have put intowriting the intimate and prolonged communications with adorable Jesus, from her tenderest age untiltoday, which still continue, who knows until when, if Our Lord Himself had not repeatedly obligedher to, both personally and through holy obedience to her Directors, to which she always surrenderswith enormous violence to herself, and also with great strength and generosity, because her conceptof holy obedience would make her refuse even an entrance into Paradise, as did actually occur, andwill be seen in the revelations of October 11 and 30, 1909.So very gracious are her discourses and dialogues with Lady Obedience, as she calls her, almostwanting to get even for the subjection to which she is forced. Now she speaks to her as to a greatPrincess and Queen who imposes herself severely, now she portrays her as a most powerful Warrior,who arms himself from head to foot, ready to strike the moment one dares to contradict him.In substance, this soul is in a tremendous fight between an overwhelming love of hiddenness and theinexorable empire of Obedience to which she absolutely must surrender – and Obedience always wins.This constitutes one of the most important traits of a true spirit - of a solid and tested virtue, becauseshe has been submitting to the dominion of the great Lady Obedience, with the greatest violence toherself, for about forty years!This solitary soul is a most pure virgin, wholly of God, who appears to be the object of singular
-2predilection of Jesus, Divine Redeemer. It seems that Our Lord, who century after century increasesthe wonders of His Love more and more, wanted to make of this virgin with no education, whom Hecalls the littlest one that He found on earth, the instrument of a mission so sublime that no other canbe compared to it - that is, the triumph of the Divine Will upon the whole earth, in conformity withwhat is said in the ‘Our Father’: Fiat Voluntas Tua sicut in Coelo et in terra.This virgin of the Lord has been placed in bed as victim of Divine Love for more than 40 years, fromthe time when she was still adolescent. It has been a state of a long series of sufferings, both naturaland supernatural, and of inebriations of the eternal Charity of the Heart of Jesus. The origin of thesepains, which exceed every natural order, has been, almost continuously, an intermittent privation ofGod, which constitutes that dark night of the soul, called "bitter and terrible" by the mystic andDoctor, St. John of the Cross, so much so, as to compare it to the pains which the souls in Purgatorysuffer because of the privation of God. He compares it somehow to a suffocation of the soul, as whensomeone is breathless, because the breath of the soul is God: Christus spiritus oris nostri (JesusChrist, the breath of our mouth).In the course of these publications one will be able to read the laments of this wounded dovesearching for her Beloved – so intimate, sharp, sensible, as to leave a profound impression of thisvictim of Divine Love. But sometimes the thick veil is torn, the soul sees Jesus, they embrace, theydelight in each other, and the soul asks for the mystical kiss of the Sacred Spouse of the Canticles.At times, the inebriation is such that, in a delirium of love, her human resistance grows weak, and thesoul exclaims: "Enough, enough! No more, Lord, for I cannot sustain it!", as once St. Francis Xavierexclaimed in similar circumstances.All of these operations of Divine Love take place mostly in the silence of the night, and in themorning, after Holy Communion, when she remains cloistered and recollected for a couple of hours.The sufferings of the body add to those of the soul, and occur at a mystical level for the most part.With no sign appearing on her hands, feet, side or forehead, she receives frequent crucifixion fromOur Lord Himself. Jesus Himself lays her upon a cross, and pierces her with nails. And then, whatSaint Teresa described when she received the wound from the Seraphim, happens within her: a painmost sharp, such as to make her faint, and at the same time, a rapture of love.But if Jesus did not do so, it would be for this soul an infinitely greater spiritual suffering, because,with the Seraphim of Carmel, she also says: to suffer or to die.Here is another sign of her true spirit. Often times, when Our Lord appears to her crowned withthorns, after He has abstracted her from her senses, she gracefully removes the crown of thorns fromHis head and drives it onto hers, experiencing atrocious spasms, but mystical contentments.In the course of these publications one will remain astonished in noticing an extraordinary intimacyof Our Lord with this soul, which is in nothing inferior to those of St. Gertrude, St. Metilde, St.Margaret or any other saint. Often times, as the aforementioned mystic and Doctor observes in similarcases, the familiarity and intimacy with which Our Lord deals with this soul, renders her daring inusing certain expressions and in advancing certain demands, which would appear excessive if one did
-3not consider that Adorable Jesus, in the matters of Faith, has given us proofs of His love even greaterthan those which can be found in the intimate conversations between Jesus and any privileged soul.It is enough, above all, that He has given Himself to us even as food in the Most Holy Eucharist.After having mentioned her long and continuous stay in bed as victim, for years and years, with theexperience of many spiritual and physical sufferings, it might seem that the sight of this unknownvirgin would be afflicting, as though seeing a person lying with all the marks of past pains, of currentsufferings, and the like.Yet, here there is something admirable. In seeing this spouse of Jesus Crucified, who spends the nightin painful ecstasies and in sufferings of every kind, during the day, sitting on her bed doing herneedlework - nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing appears, of one who has suffered so much duringthe night; there is nothing, not one thing extraordinary or supernatural in her air. On the contrary, sheappears as a healthy person, happy and jovial. She speaks, converses, laughs when appropriate, butreceives few friends.Sometimes, some troubled heart confides in her, and asks for her prayers. She listens kindly andcomforts, but never advances to make prophecies, never a word which might hint at revelations. Thegreat comfort which she presents is always one, always the same: the Divine Will.Although she possesses no human knowledge, she is abundantly endowed with a Wisdom all celestial- with the Science of the Saints. Her words illuminate and console. By nature her intellect is not poor.She studied up to the first grade when she was a child; her writing is filled with mistakes, althoughshe does not lack appropriate terms, in conformity with the revelations; terms which seem to beinfused by Our Lord.The Hours of the PassionAt the same time as the sublime revelations about the virtues in general, and about the Divine Willin particular, for many years, at nighttime, this soul has entered the contemplation of the sufferingsof Our Lord Jesus Christ, with the addition of distinct information about many scenes of the Passion.The method was that of going through the 24 hours of the Adorable Passion of Our Lord JesusChrist, which begin with the Legal Supper and end with His death on the Cross. These visions weresometimes accompanied by corresponding revelations of Our Lord.Since nothing was published of the visions and revelations of this soul, in her excessive desire to keepeverything hidden, fearing that a publication, even anonymous, might uncover her, she wanted to burythis Treasure of divine knowledges, of superhuman compassion, of a superhuman fount of the mostloving affections within herself.But her Spiritual Father placed the majestic Lady Obedience, the strong Warrior armed from headto foot, before her; and Our Lord Himself pushed her to manifest them for the good of many souls.She surrendered, and to the author of this Preface was entrusted the printing of the writings which
-4she put on paper regarding this topic so important.As the first Edition of this admirable Treatise of the 24 Hours of the Passion of Our Lord appeared,the blessing of God seemed evident. In a short time all copies were depleted, which at that time were5,000, without being sent to specific addresses. It was enough to send one copy to some devoutperson, that requests would begin to arrive. An announcement was placed in the periodical of ourAnthonian Orphanages "Dio e il Prossimo" ["God and Neighbor"] under the name of a Book of Gold,and immediately the requests increased, in such a way that the Edition was soon exhausted.Most Eminent Cardinal Cassetta, to whom nothing had been sent directly, requested 50 copies atonce.Then came the 2nd Edition, a larger one, and then the 3rd. Both of them were rapidly depleted.For the purpose of promotion, sales were made at moderate prices, just to cover the expenses.At that time a pleasant circumstance occurred, which we remember with pleasure. A letter, addresseddirectly to me, arrived from the Vatican, written by that angelic Bishop - today Apostolic Nuncio ofVenezuela, at that time the Secretary of Bishop Msgr. Tacci (who is today an emeritus Cardinal) Msgr. Cento, who was then appointed Bishop of Acireale, and will perhaps be a Cardinal of the HolyChurch. There had been no previous contacts between this lovable person and myself. In this letterhe appeared enthusiastic from the reading
HOURS OF THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST Luisa Piccarreta "The Little Daughter of the Divine Will" " The satisfaction that blessed Jesus r eceives from the meditation of these Hou rs is so great, that He would want at least one copy of these meditations to be present and pr acticed in each city or town. In fact, it would happen, then,File Size: 850KBPage Count: 196
