{"id":10401,"date":"2024-02-13T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T20:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=10401"},"modified":"2024-01-21T20:54:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T01:54:15","slug":"214-suggested-reading-for-lent-the-hours-of-the-passion-of-our-lord-jesus-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=10401","title":{"rendered":"2\/14 Today is Ash Wednesday: Suggested Reading for Lent: The Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"J_Crucifixion<\/a><\/h1>\n

Presentation<\/h1>\n

(From <\/em>The Hours of the Passion. \u00a0Click here<\/strong><\/a> for book)<\/em><\/p>\n

This book (T<\/em>he Twenty-Four Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ<\/em>) is a translation of the Italian book, L\u2019Orologio della Passione di Nostro Signore Gesu Cristo<\/i>, written by Luisa Piccarreta, \u201cThe Little Daughter of the Divine Will,\u201d about the year 1914, in obedience to the ecclesiastical authority at that time, the now Saint Annibale Maria di Francia.\u00a0 This presentation was taken largely from the preface of the fourth edition, which Saint Annibale Maria di Francia had written for the original Italian.<\/p>\n

Luisa was seventeen years old (she relates these facts in the first of thirty-six volumes which she wrote by order of holy obedience).\u00a0 On the last day of a Christmas Novena which Jesus Himself prompted her to do, He surprised her with an unusually vivid experience of the marvelous Mysteries of His Love.\u00a0 And He told her He wanted to lavish New and Greater Graces on her, manifesting to her other, even more lofty Excesses of His Immense Love, and inviting her to continue giving Him uninterrupted company during the twenty-four hours of His Sorrowful Passion and death.<\/p>\n

Much later, after Luisa had already been Living these Hours of the Passion<\/i> intensely in her interior for more than thirty years, the now Saint Annibale di Francia, who was the ecclesiastic delegate on matters concerning Luisa\u2019s writings and who had come to know about this practice of hers, gave her the obedience to write these Hours<\/i> down.\u00a0 This, then, is how the book, The Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ<\/i> began.<\/p>\n

It was then that Saint Annibale di Francia published it for the first time.\u00a0 To this edition, there followed seven others:\u00a0 five in Italian and two in German\u2014always with the proper ecclesiastical permissions.\u00a0 It was recently published in English and Spanish as well.<\/p>\n

When Luisa had finished writing the Hours of the Passion<\/i>, she wrote a letter which she gave to Saint Annibale together with the book, who included it in the book\u2019s preface when he published it.\u00a0 From this letter, we come to appreciate how pleased Jesus is, and how many benefits are lavished upon the soul, when it practices these Hours<\/i> on a daily basis, as Bread without which one cannot live.\u00a0 Here is the letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am finally sending you this hand-written copy of The Hours <\/i>of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ<\/i>.\u00a0 May it all be for His greater Glory.\u00a0 I have also enclosed a few sheets on which I have described the Effects and the beautiful Promises which Jesus makes to all those who meditate these Hours of the Passion<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that if whoever meditates on them is a sinner he will convert; if he is imperfect he will become perfect; if he is holy he will become holier; if he is tempted he will find victory; if suffering he will find strength, medicine and comfort in these Hours<\/i>; if weak and poor he will find a spiritual food and a mirror in which to look at himself continually, and so become beautiful and similar to Jesus, our Model.<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus\u2019 Joy is so immense when someone meditates on the Hours of the Passion<\/i>, that He would like to see at least one copy of these meditations being used in every city and town.\u00a0 Because then it would be as if Jesus were hearing His own Voice and His own Prayers which He raised to His Father during the twenty-four hours of His painful Passion.\u00a0 And if this is done at least by a few souls in each town and city, He Himself promises that the Divine Justice will be appeased in part, and punishments will be lessened.<\/p>\n

\u201cReverend Father:\u00a0 You make an appeal to everyone.\u00a0 Bring this little work to completion, which my Loving Jesus has had me do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would also like to add that the purpose of these Hours of the Passion<\/i> is not so much that of recounting the story of the Passion, since there already are many books which deal with this pious subject, and it would not be necessary to write another one.\u00a0 Instead, its purpose is to make reparation:\u00a0 to unite ourselves to Jesus in each of the different moments of His Passion, and with His own Divine Will, make a worthy reparation for each of the various offenses He receives, and compensate Him for everything that all creatures owe Him.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom this there derive the different ways of making reparation in these Hours<\/i>.\u00a0 In some instances, the soul blesses Him, in others it sympathizes with Him, in others it praises Him, it comforts suffering Jesus, it compensates Him, it begs, prays and asks Him, and so on.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I entrust to you the task of making known the purpose of these Hours<\/i> to those who will read them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Therefore, in every city, town and nation, let us form so many cenacles, in which these twenty-four Hours of the Passion of Our Lord<\/i> are meditated and lived.\u00a0 Like so many living clocks, let them faithfully mark the hours of each day, to keep Jesus company with our love, our reparation and our gratitude, for He is not loved as He deserves.\u00a0 Indeed, His own children offend Him and crucify Him again in their hearts, by closing the doors to Grace, to the Divine Will.<\/p>\n

It happened that on one occasion, Saint Annibale di Francia went to Luisa\u2019s house and recounted what had taken place on one of his visits with the Pope (being an intimate friend of Pope Saint Pius X, he was frequently received by him).\u00a0 While with him, he wanted to introduce him to the book, The Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ<\/i>, which he had been spreading.\u00a0 So, St. Annibale read a few pages of it to the Pope, specifically, from the Hour of the Crucifixion.\u00a0 At a certain point, the Pope interrupted him, saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cFather, this book should be read while kneeling:\u00a0 It is Jesus Christ who is speaking!\u201d<\/p>\n

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