{"id":17137,"date":"2016-01-30T21:47:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T02:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=17137"},"modified":"2016-01-30T21:47:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T02:47:26","slug":"hours-of-the-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=17137","title":{"rendered":"Hours of the Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Heading under “Work Sheet for Hours of the Passion” you will find the excel works sheet for setting up a group to pray the Hours of the Passion as written by\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Saint Annibale Maria di Francia in the preface to the House of the Passion:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/i>\u201cIf because of one soul alone doing these Hours, Jesus would spare a city chastisements, and would give grace to as many souls for as many as are the words of these sorrowful Hours, how many graces could a Community [or any group of faithful] hope for; from how many defects and relaxations would it be healed or preserved; and for how many souls would it obtain sanctification and salvation by practicing this pious exercise!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

If only there were one soul in each Community, who would apply herself to practicing it with more attention during the day, at times even in the midst of daily occupations, and also in the evening, and at nighttime with a little bit of vigil\u2026!\u00a0 But it would be the summit of the divine, and the maximum profit for that Community and for the whole world, if this exercise were practiced by all, in turns – day and night!\u201d Saint Hannibale Maria Di Frnacia<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

One method<\/span>\u00a0is that of meditating one Hour each day by reading it alone, or with one\u2019s family, or with others.\u00a0 In this way, in the round of 24 days, one would complete the 24 Hours.\u00a0 A good clock never stops \u2013 life never stops\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>A second method<\/span>\u00a0would be that of forming groups of various people \u2013 4, 8, 12 or possibly 24 and more \u2013 each one committed seriously to doing one of the Hours, assigned for a period of time, before changing the Hour.\u00a0 A good clock marks all the hours – it skips none of them\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>A third method<\/span>, then, is that of doing at least one hour per day, at the time of the day which coincides to that hour, but in any case, to reach such familiarity with the Hours of the Passion, and to assimilate them in such a way, as to be able to follow their content mentally during the whole day.\u00a0 For this purpose it is very helpful to learn by heart the succession of the 24 Hours with the corresponding title, which is reported on the next page.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>To \u201cdo\u201d an Hour of the Passion means to read it attentively, meditating on it, contemplating it, making it one\u2019s own life\u2026 It is not just remembering and compassionating the sufferings of Jesus as something that happened many centuries ago in a far away place; but rather, it is, first of all, to enter into the Divine Will, in which everything is present and\u00a0in act<\/i>, and to participate in the interior acts and sufferings of Our Lord, which are present and\u00a0in act<\/i>\u00a0at this precise moment, so as to repeat His life within us, to grow in His likeness, and to pour upon everyone the infinite value, merits and effects of His Passion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Jesus Himself explains this very important difference:<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cTo repeat my Passion in act in the creature, is different from one who only thinks of my pains and compassionates them.\u00a0 The first is an act of my Life, which takes my place in order to repeat my pains, and I feel I am given back the effects and the value of a Divine Life; while in thinking of my pains and in compassionating Me, it is only the company of the creature that I feel.\u00a0 But do you know in whom I can repeat my pains, in act, of my Passion?\u00a0 In one who has my Will as center of life<\/span><\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong> (October 24, 1925\u00a0 Vol. 18)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

One can comprehend, then, how the Hours of the Passion are not just a reading, and not even a devotion, but a formation of life:\u00a0 the interior life of Jesus.\u00a0 In this way, day after day, we will feel more and more that Jesus is truly living in us – not just our life, but His very Divine Life.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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