(Click here for The Hours of the Passion) 

Jesus promptly departs from His Mother, although His Most Tender Heart undergoes a shock.

Are we ready to sacrifice even the most legitimate and holy affections in order to fulfill the Divine Volition? (Let us examine ourselves especially in the cases of separation from the sense of the Divine Presence or from sensible devotion).

Jesus did not take His last steps in vain.  In them, He glorified the Father and asked for the salvation of souls.  We must place in our steps the same intentions that Jesus placed—that is, to sacrifice ourselves for the glory of the Father and for the good of souls.  We must also imagine placing our steps in those of Jesus Christ; and as Jesus Christ did not make them in vain, but enclosed in His steps all those of the creatures, repairing for all their missteps, to give the glory due to the Father, and Life to all the missteps of creatures so that they might walk along the path of good—so we should do it in the same way, placing our steps in those of Jesus Christ with His own Intentions.

Do we walk on the street modest and composed, so as to be an example for others?  As the afflicted Jesus walked, He talked to the apostles every once in a while, speaking to them about His imminent Passion.  What do we say in our conversations?  When the opportunity arises, do we make the Passion of the Divine Redeemer the object of our conversations?

In seeing the apostles sad and discouraged, Loving Jesus tried to comfort them.  Do we place in our conversations the intention of relieving Jesus Christ?  Do we try to do them in the Will of God, infusing in others the Spirit of Jesus Christ?  Jesus goes to the cenacle.  We must enclose our thoughts, affections, heartbeats, prayers, actions, food and work in the Heart of Jesus Christ in the act of operating; and by doing this, our actions will acquire the Divine Attitude.  However, since it is difficult to always keep this Divine Attitude, because it is hard for the soul to fuse her acts continuously in Him, the soul can compensate with the attitude of her good will, and Jesus will be very pleased.  (See May 27, 1922 from Volume 14 below) He will become the vigilant Sentry of her every thought, of her every word and of her every heartbeat.  He will place these acts as cortege inside and outside Himself, looking at them with great Love, as the fruit of the good will of the creature.  Then when the soul, fusing herself in Him, does her immediate acts with Jesus, Good Jesus will feel so attracted toward that soul that He will do what she does together with her, transmuting the work of the creature into Divine Work.  All this is the effect of the Goodness of God, which takes everything into account and rewards everything, even a tiny act in the Will of God, so that the creature may not be defrauded of anything.

O my Life and my All, may Your steps direct mine, and as I tread the earth, let my thoughts be in Heaven! 

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Book of Heaven
Volume 14; May 27, 1922

The prevenient act and the actual act.

I was thinking to myself: “If one act done in His Will is so great, how many of them, alas, do I let escape!’ And my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, there is the prevenient act and the actual act. The prevenient act is when the soul, at the first rising of the day, fixes her will in Mine, and decides and confirms that she wants to live and operate only in my Volition. She anticipates all of her acts and makes them all flow in my Will. With the prevenient will, my Sun rises, my Life remains duplicated in all of her acts, as though in one single act; and this makes up for the actual act. However, the prevenient act can be shaded – obscured by the human ways, by one’s own will, by self-esteem, by negligence and other things, which are like clouds before the Sun, that render its light less vivid on the face of the earth.

On the other hand, the actual act is not subject to clouds; on the contrary, it has the virtue of dispelling the clouds, if there are any, and it makes many more suns rise, in which my Life is duplicated, with such vividness of light and heat as to form as many new suns, one more beautiful than the other. However, both of them are necessary: the prevenient act gives the hand, disposes and forms the plane for the actual act; the actual act preserves and expands the plane of the prevenient.”

One characteristic of sanctifying Sunday is rest from strenuous physical work.  during the first centuries Christians did not enjoy freedom of religion and were persecuted. For the early Christians, therefore, Sunday was an ordinary workday.  Since they had to work during the day, they conducted their Sunday services in the late evening, or early morning.

Sunday rest began to assume greater significance when in 313 A.D. the Church was granted complete religious freedom under emperor Constantine the Great.  The first laws regarding Sunday rest did not come from the Church, but from the state.  In 321 A.D. Emperor Constantine issued an edict in which he decreed:  “On the most revered day of the Sun let all judges, townspeople and all laborers rest.  Only let the farmers in the villages work freely without hinderance.”  The historian Eusebius (+c.340) testified that the Emperor Constantine the Great made Sunday a day of prayer, ordered all his subjects to put aside their work and excused all Christian soldiers from duty so that they might attend Sunday Service.  The Emperor Theodosius the Great (379-395) first of all forbad all public spectacles, then later in the decree of 386 he prohibited all court proceedings, commercial, business and legal transactions. Whoever violated this law incurred the same penalty imposed for sacrilege.  Such civil laws, of course, promoted the observance of Sunday as a holy day of prayer and rest.

Concurrent with civil legislation, the Church began more and more to enjoin there faithful to abstain from physical work on Sunday.  The Council of Laodicea in Asia Minor in 364 prescribed Sunday rest “as far as possible”.  Emperor Leo the Wise (886-911) forbade farmers to work on Sunday.  The patriarch of Constantinople Nicephor (806-815) declared that Christians should not even travel on Sunday, unless it was necessary.  As early as the eighth century we find more and more local synods prescribing Sunday rest.

In the West, Emperor Charlemagne in 789 banned work on Sunday as a violation of the third commandment of God.  In 1243, under Pope Gregory IX, the law of Sunday rest became a universal practice in the Latin Church.

From this, it is evident that the celebration of Sunday is the oldest and a very sacred Christian tradition, which originated with the Apostles themselves.  Consequently, participation in the Divine Liturgy and the observance of Sunday rest should be for us a natural practice of evident spiritual value.  We must not forget that obligation to keep Sunday holy is not only a Church law, but basically also a divine law from which no dispensation can be given.  Even if for grave reasons we cannot be present in Church for Sunday services, nevertheless, we are obliged to keep Sunday holy in our own way. We can do this, for example by frequent remembrance of God, longer prayers, spiritual reading, and guarded speech and conduct.

In this regard Metropolitan A. Sheptytsky, O.S.B.M says: “The law that enjoins presence at the Divine Liturgy, and the law of rest or inactivity on Sunday, are Church laws which only define, explain and complement more clearly the natural and positive law of God in the Mosaic legislation … Nothing can at any time dispense from the law of God, neither ecclesiastical authority nor burdensome circumstances.  All are obliged to observe the Law of God, even if it means risking or losing one’s life … Thus the obligation to observe Sunday, in so far as it is a Church law, does not oblige when its fulfillment involves a great burden and inconvenience … But the third commandment is such, that no burden, no inconvenience and no authority whatever has the power to dispense from it; because the third commandment is also in the New Testament a commandment of God; that is, an obligation that is inviolable and infallibly and indiscriminately binding on all. This obligation is also an obligation of the natural law, that is, an obligation which every person can know from natural reason and experience in his conscience.  To fail to fulfill that part of the third commandment which pertains to the natural law is, therefore, a sin even under circumstances which relieve one of the obligation to participate in the  Divine Liturgy and to abstain from manual work.   The failure to observe that commandment will always be a sin, and consequently, a great loss and injury to the soul.”  (On the Observance of Sunday, 1942

Book of Heaven
6/9/22 – Vol. 14

As I was in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus would come very often; and sometimes He would lean His head upon mine, telling me: “My daughter, I need rest. The uncreated Intelligence wants to rest in the created intelligence. But in order to find true rest, I should find in your intelligence all the glory and the contentment which all other intelligences should give Me. Therefore my Will wants to expand your capacity to be able to find this rest. No, I am not content if my Will does not place in you all that the others should give Me.” Then, He seemed to breathe over my intelligence, and it remained as though chained by many threads of light, for as many created minds as came out of the hands of our Creator. And each thread of light said: “Glory, gratitude, honor… to my God, trice Holy.” And Jesus said: “Ah, yes, now I can rest! I find the return of the intelligence of Creation; the created mind is fused with the Uncreated Mind.” …

… After this He came back again, but all afflicted; and He told me: “I feel sad when they think that I am severe, and that I make more use of Justice than of Mercy. They are with Me as if I were to strike them in each thing. Oh, how dishonored I feel by these ones! In fact, this leads them to remain at due distance from Me, and one who is distant cannot receive all the fusion of my Love. And while they are the ones who do not love Me, they think that I am severe and almost a Being that strikes fear; while by just taking a look at my Life they can only notice that I did only one act of Justice – when, in order to defend the house of my Father, I took the ropes and snapped them to the right and to the left, to drive out the profanators. All the rest was only Mercy: Mercy my conception, my birth, my words, my works, my steps, the Blood I shed, my pains – everything in Me was Merciful Love. Yet, they fear Me, while they should fear themselves more than Me.”

The Twenty-Four Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Promises of Our Lord to those who Pray
The Twenty-Four Hours of the Passion or Our Lord Jesus Christ:

Below are some resources for people to find the prayer links online:

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The first is from the Brazilian Catholic Television Station subgroup of Divina Voluntade with translations in Portugese and English:  https://www.divinavontade.com/meditacao-das-24h-da-paixao/

There is also a playlist from a YouTube Channel, which currently is the “work” we’ve visited about, called Fiat Luisa: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIMnpNpz4lEZCO60e1tQQJw

24 Hour Passion Playlist:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE9MVQgdDD0Nxavug-3jse4vSm1w1XgNH

These are another set of direct links all linked below, that have the

The Twenty-Four Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ,

both to see and to hear audio, if desired.  They come from a trustworthy website: 

1st Hour – 5 pm

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/355-2

2nd Hour – 6 pm

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/365-2

3rd Hour – 7 pm

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/third-hour-from-7-to-8-pm

4th Hour – 8 pm

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/fourth-hour-from-8-to-9-pm

5th Hour – 9 pm

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/05-fifth-hour-from-9-to-10-pm

6th Hour – 10 pm

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/06-sixth-hour-from-10-to-11-pm

7th Hour – 11 pm

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/07-seventh-hour-from-11-pm-to-midnight

8th Hour- 12 am

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/08-eighth-hour-from-midnight-to-1-am

9th Hour – 1 am

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/09-ninth-hour-from-1-to-2-am

10th Hour – 2 am

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/10-tenth-hour-from-2-to-3-am

11th Hour – 3 am

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/11-eleventh-hour-from-3-to-4-am

12th Hour – 4 am

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/12-twelfth-hour-from-4-to-5-am

13th Hour – 5 am

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/13-thirteenth-hour-from-5-to-6-am

14th Hour – 6 am

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/798-2

15th Hour – 7 am

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/15-fifteenth-hour-from-7-to-8-am

16th Hour – 8 am

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/16-sixteenth-hour-from-8-to-9-am

17th Hour – 9 am

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/17-seventeenth-hour-from-9-to-10-am

18th Hour – 10 am

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/18-the-eighteenth-hour-from-10-to-11-am

19 th Hour – 11 am

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/19-the-nineteenth-hour-from-11-am-to-12-pm

20th Hour – 12 pm

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/20-twentieth-hour-from-12-to-1-pm

21st Hour – 1 pm

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/21-twenty-first-hour-from-1-to-2-pm

22nd Hour – 2 pm

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/22-twenty-second-hour-from-2-to-3-pm

23rd  Hour – 3 pm

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/23-twenty-third-hour-from-3-to-4-pm

24th Hour – 4 pm

https://luisapiccarreta.me/the-twenty-four-hours-of-the-passion/twenty-fourth-hour-from-4-to-5-pm-the-burial-of-jesus-most-holy-desolate-mary

A young Fr. Bucci, his Aunt Rosaria and his brother Agostino

In a recent statement of Fr. Bucci, he made known that after Luisa’s death, in addition to beginning the spread of devotion to Luisa, and having read all of her Writings, Aunt Rosaria had an earnest devotion to the protection and sanctification of the unborn. To honor Rosaria Bucci in this earnest intention, and to thank her for her forty years of dedication and care of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, with the following Writing of Luisa from Volume 36, we echo this same desire, linked with Luisa in the Holy Divine Will, praying for the Salvation and Sanctification of all unborn babies, past, present and future. May this be for the Glory of God and the Good of all souls, and hasten the Establishment of the Kingdom of the Divine Will on earth as It is in Heaven.

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From the Easter Blessing given a few years ago by Padre Bernardino Bucci (who passed away July 17, 2020):

I give you my Priestly Blessing, In the Name of the +Father, +Son and +Holy Spirit.
Blessed Easter!

And also to pray with Rosaria Bucci, that she may continue to help stop abortions and all that may limit the life of the pregnancy of a woman and anything that ends the life of a preborn baby.

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From a person who met with Padre Bucci:

Padre Bucci has told us that, a few weeks before Luisa died she informed his Aunt Rosaria, who helped with the care of Luisa for 40 years, that Jesus gave Rosaria the Mission of helping the Preborn in a similar way that Jesus gave Luisa the Mission of those Born to the Light of the Day, as in the following reading:

V36 – 4.12.38– “My Blessed daughter of My Will, how many Wonders My Will can make in the creature, as long as she gives It the First Place and All the Freedom to Operate. My Will takes the will, the word, the act that the creature wants to do, as part of Itself – Covers it with Its Creative Virtue, Pronounces Its Fiat in it, and Forms as many Lives for as many existing creatures. You were asking in My Will for the Baptism of All newborn babies that will come to the light of the day – and then, for Its Life to Reign in them. My Will did not hesitate for one instant; soon It Pronounced Its Fiat and Formed as many Lives from Itself for as many newborn babies coming to the Light – Baptizing them, as you wanted, with Its First Light, and then Giving each one of them Its Life…”

January 22, marks the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade,

the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the U.S.

  Pray the Command Prayer to End Abortion:

Abba Father, in the Name of Jesus

In the Unity and Power of the Holy Spirit

Under the Mantle of Mary,

with all the Angels and Saints,

through the intercession of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

take my humble prayer and make it Your Command

to end abortion throughout the world

that all may be accomplished and completed in Your Most Holy Divine Will.

Fiat!

Amen.

Since that tragic decision,

millions of

children’s lives have been lost to abortion per year,
(there is 1 abortion every 30 seconds)

and many others suffer from that loss

— often in silence.

Vol. 4 – 1/5/03

This morning I felt almost free of sufferings. I myself did not know what to do, when I felt I was outside of myself and I saw people from our country who, in addition to the words and the calumnies they had spoken, were plotting to come to deeds. In the meantime I saw blessed Jesus and I said: ‘Lord, You give too much liberty to these infernal men. Up until now it has been about infernal words, but now they want to reach the point of laying hands on your ministers. Bind them, and have compassion on them, and, at the same time, defend those who belong to You.’

And He: “Daughter, this freedom is necessary in order to recognize the good and the evil…”

…He (Jesus) told me: “My daughter, I did not make man for the earth, but for Heaven; his mind, his heart, and everything that his interior contains were to exist in Heaven. Had he done this, he would have received the influence of the Most Holy Trinity within his three powers, and It would have been copied within himself; but since he occupies himself with earth, he receives mud, rot and the whole bilge of vices that the earth contains.”