The Hours of the Passion: Prayers and meditations of the day of the Passion.

And almost staggering, You are about to fall near them, while John extends his arms to sustain You. You are so unrecognizable that if it were not for the gentleness and tenderness of your voice, they would not have recognized you. Then, recommending that they watch and pray, you return to the garden, but with a second wound in your heart. In this wound, O my love, I see all the sins of those souls that, in spite of the manifestation of your favors in the form of gifts, kisses and caresses, in the nights of trial forget about your love and your gifts, and remain as it were, drowsy and sleepy, thus losing the spirit of continuous prayer and watchfulness.

My Jesus, how true it is that after having seen you and having tasted your gifts, great strength is necessary to stand firm when deprived of them. Only a miracle can make such souls endure the test. So, while I sympathize with you for these souls, whose neglect, levity and offenses are the most bitter to your heart, I beg you: If they should take even a single step which could displease you in the least, surround them with so much grace that will stop them, so that they may not lose the spirit of continuous prayer.

My gentle Jesus, as you return to the garden, it seems that you cannot go on. Your face is covered with blood and dirt, but you raise it to heaven and repeat for the third time:

“Father, if it is possible, let this chalice pass from me. Holy Father, help me! I need comfort. It is true that, because of the sins taken upon myself, I am nauseating, loathsome and the least among men before your infinite majesty. Your justice is roused to anger against me. But look at me, O Father: I am always your Son, who is one with you Please, Father, help me, have pity on me! Do not leave me without comfort!”

Then I seem to hear you, O my tender love, calling your dear mother for help:

“Sweet mother, hold me tightly in your arms as you did when I was a child. Give me that milk I used to take from you, to refresh me and to sweeten the bitterness of my agony. Give me your heart which was perfect contentment for me. My mother, Mary Magdalene, dear apostles, all you who love me: help me! Comfort me! Do not leave me alone in these extreme moments. Everyone, gather around me. Comfort me with your company and your love.”

 

Jesus, my love, who can bear to see you in such extremes? What heart could ever be so hard that it would not break, seeing you so drowned in your own blood? Who would not shed streams of bitter tears, hearing the sorrowful words with which you seek help and comfort? My Jesus, console yourself. Now I see the Father who is sending you an angel for comfort and help, so that you can come out of this state of agony and be able to turn yourself over to the Jews. While you are with the angel, I will go around heaven and earth. You will permit me to take this blood which you have shed, so that I can give it to all men as the pledge of the salvation of each, and bring back to you in exchange, the comfort of their affections, heartbeats, thoughts, steps and deeds.

My heavenly mother, I come to you so that together we may go to all souls to give them Jesus' blood. Gentle mother, Jesus wants comfort, and the greatest comfort we can give him is to bring him souls. Mary Magdalene, come with us. All you angels, come and see how Jesus has been reduced. He wants comfort from everyone, and he finds himself in such a state of prostration that he will not refuse anyone.

O light of the sun, come to cast out the darkness of this night to give Jesus comfort. O stars, with your flickering rays, come down from Heaven. Come, to give Jesus comfort. Flowers of the earth, come with your fragrances. Birds, come with your singing. Come, elements of the earth, to comfort Jesus. Come, O sea, to refresh and wash Jesus. He is our Creator, our Life, our All. Come, all, to comfort Him, to give Him homage as our sovereign Lord.

But, oh, Jesus is not looking for lights, stars, flowers and birds. He wants souls, souls! My gentle good Jesus, here is everyone together with me. Your dear mother is near you. Please do rest in her arms. It will be a comfort for her as well, to press you to her bosom, for she has shared abundantly in your sorrowful agony. Mary Magdalene is here too, as well as all the loving souls of all centuries. O Jesus, please accept them, and say a word of forgiveness and of love to everyone. Bind them all in your love so that no soul may ever escape you again.

But, ah, it seems to me that You say, O daughter, how many souls flee Me by force and fall into eternal ruin! So how can my sorrow be soothed—if I love a single soul as much as I love all souls together?

Conclusion of the Agony

Agonizing Jesus, while it seems that your life is about to be extinguished, I can already hear the death-rattle of the agony. Your beautiful eyes are eclipsed by approaching death; all your most holy members have gone limp. Many times I can hear that you are not breathing. I feel my heart break for the pain. I embrace you and feel you are cold. I shake you but you give no signs of life. Jesus, are you dead?

Afflicted Mama, Angels of Heaven, come to cry over Jesus, and do not permit that I continue to live without Him. Ah, I cannot! I press Him more tightly to myself, and I hear Him taking another breath —and then, again, He gives no sign of life! I call Him: “Jesus, Jesus, my Life, do not die!”

But I already hear the clamor of your enemies, who are coming to take You. Who will defend You in your state?

Roused, He seems to rise from death to life. He looks at me and says:

“Child, are you here? Have you not been a witness of my pains and of the many deaths I suffered? Then know, O daughter, that in these three hours of most bitter agony, I have enclosed in Myself all the lives of creatures and have suffered all their pains and their very deaths, giving to each one my own Life. My agonies will sustain theirs; for their sake, my suffering and death will change into a fountain of sweetness and of life. How much souls cost Me! Were I at least requited! You have seen that while I was dying, I would return to breathe again: those were the deaths of the creatures that I felt within Me!”

My panting Jesus, since You also wanted to enclose my life in You, and therefore also my death, I pray You, for this most bitter agony of yours, to come to my assistance at the moment of my death. I have given You my heart as refuge and rest, my arms to sustain You, and all of my being at your disposal; and — oh, how gladly I would give myself into the hands of your enemies, to die in your place!

Come, O life of my heart, at that moment, to return to me all I have given You: your company, your Heart as bed and rest, your arms as support, your labored breath to alleviate my labors; in such a way that, in breathing, I will breathe through your breath which, like purifying air, will purify me of any stain, and will dispose me to enter the eternal beatitude.

Even more, my sweet Jesus, then You will give your very Most Holy Humanity to my soul, so that, in looking at me, You may see me through Yourself; and in looking at Yourself, You may find nothing for which to judge me. Then You will bathe me in your Blood; You will clothe me with the candid garment of your Most Holy Will; You will adorn me with your Love, and giving me the last kiss, You will let me take flight from earth unto Heaven.

And now I pray you to do for all the dying, what I have asked for myself. Hug them all in your embrace of love. And giving them the kiss of union with yourself, save them all and do not permit anyone to be lost.

My saddened, good Jesus, I offer you this hour in memory of your passion and death, to disarm the just wrath of God for so many sins, to obtain the conversion of all sinners, for peace among peoples, for our sanctification, and in suffrage for the souls of purgatory.

Now I see that your enemies are approaching, and you want to leave me to go meet them. Jesus, permit me to impress a kiss on your lips, which Judas will dare to kiss with his infernal kiss. Let me wipe your face, bathed in blood, which is about to be struck repeatedly and covered with spit. Press me close to your heart, and never permit me to be separated from you. I will follow you. Bless me.

 

Reflections and Practices.

In this third hour in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus asked for help from heaven, and his pains were so numerous that he even asked for comfort from his disciples. Now, do I always ask for help from heaven in any circumstance, pain or misfortune? And if I turn to creatures as well, do I do so in an orderly way, going to those who can piously comfort me? Am I at least resigned if I don't receive those comforts I was hoping for, making use of the indifference of creatures to abandon myself even more in Jesus' arms?

Jesus was comforted by an angel. Now, can I say that I am Jesus' angel, by being near him to comfort him and take part in his bitternesses? In order to be able to be a true angel to Jesus, I must receive my pains as pains sent to me by him, and so, as divine pains. Only then can I dare to comfort a God so embittered. Otherwise, if I take pains in a human way, I cannot use them to comfort this Man-God, and therefore I cannot be His angel.

In the sufferings that Jesus sends me, it seems like he sends me the chalice too, into which I must pour the fruit of these sufferings. And these pains, suffered with love and resignation, will be transformed into the sweetest nectar for Jesus. And I will go to my suffering Jesus and offer the chalice that He sent me, and my sorrows now turned into sweetness. Like an Angel, I will bring it to his lips that He may drink it, to comfort Him and soothe Him. In every sorrow I will then say to myself, “Jesus is calling me to be an Angel close to Him. He wants my comfort and, for this reason, He makes me share in his sorrows.

Jesus, my Love, in my suffering, I search for your Heart to rest, and in your suffering I wish to make reparation with mine. In this exchange, may I be your Angel of consolation.

Thanksgiving Prayer
after each hour of Agony in the Garden

O my sweetest Lord, I thank you for being pleased to have me in your company at least for an hour during your tremendous agony in the garden. Oh, my good Jesus, how little comfort did you find in me. Yet, your infinite love and the overflowing charity of your merciful heart make you find relief even in the least act of compassion that the creature shows you. I will never forget the sight of your adorable person trembling, struck down, crushed, humiliated in the dust, and all covered with the blood you sweat, in the dark horror of Gethsemane! O Jesus, I have experienced that to be with you in your sufferings, to feel even one drop of the distressing bitterness of your divine heart is the greatest fortune which anyone can have on earth.

O Jesus, I gladly renounce all vain and earthly things. I only want you, my oppressed, suffering, afflicted Lord. From this garden, to Calvary, I always want to give you my faithful and sweet company.

O Jesus, make me be captured with you, and dragged to the courts with you. Let me share in the abuses, the insults, the spit and the slaps your enemies are going to cover you with. Take me with you from Pilate to Herod and back to Pilate again. Tie me to the column with you, and let me feel a part of your scourgings. Jesus, pierce me with some of your thorns. Let me be condemned to death by crucifixion with you: you, as victim of love for me, and I as victim of atonement for my sins.

Give me the portion of the Cyrenian, to follow you to Calvary; and there, let me be nailed to the cross with you, and then agonize and die with you.

O sorrowful mother, you have given me help to sympathize with agonizing Jesus in the garden. Help me now to be crucified with you on the same cross of Jesus, and to know how to offer him the most worthy reparations with the same merits of his passion and death on the cross. Amen.

 

Well, I guess we go around again.

No it does not.

In fact, to my knowledge, Luisa's revelations were not considered in his canonization process.

Was the Assisi ecumenical meeting a good thing by virtue of St. John Paul II being canonized? That logic doesn't hold up. Let the messages stand or fall by themselves, there is no approval by association. They either are in line with the Tradition of the Church or they are not. In fact there are many good orthodox voices in the Church that hold that they are not, for example:

Servant of God John Hardon :

http://www.transporter.com/Apologia/cuf_ltr.htm

And there is good authority claiming from personal meetings and correspondence that the translations should not be disseminated:

Colin Donovan EWTN:

https://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/luisa_piccarreta.htm

All the more reason to wait for an official translation. Once the translation was corrected, there were no issues.

Seeing how she used a dialect of Italian, translation would be a huge issue.


Best to wait for the critical edition, as asked for by the ordinary in charge. There are plenty of Passion meditations that are approved and in conformity to the Church.

 

All you have said is so true Xavier. I try to read an hour a day year round.

 

Wonderful, Patty! You have gained and will gain so many graces for yourself and for the world in doing so. I'm hoping first to do one hour a day for the 24 days, then start doing 6 hours a day after Divine Mercy Sunday, when I hope to have completed the 24 Hours once. Then, gradually, and hopefully, to increase it as possible.

Frodo, we can agree to disagree, then. The endorsement by St. Annibale of the wonderful strength of these prayers (something I already experienced, when I was praying for something for about a week without these prayers, but did not obtain it; but after I began these Hours, and asked for it, by the Grace of God, it was granted!) is good enough for me. "It is for you, in a special way, that these Hours of the Passion have been inspired by Our Lord in that solitary and contemplative soul, who has been practicing them for many years with great profit to herself and to the whole Holy Church. Special graces have been reserved for you if you take to heart this holy daily exercise, penetrating the same sentiments and the same dispositions as those of the soul who dictated it, and who has been practicing it for many years ... it is impossible for the soul, in this compassionating exercise, not to encounter the most sorrowful Mother Mary, and not to unite to the same compassion and the very incomprehensible affections of the Sorrowful Mother of God! It will be like living with Jesus suffering, and with Mary co-redeeming, gathering immense eternal goods for oneself and for all! ... If 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!" I have no doubt that all difficulties will be cleared very soon. But some 150, 000 souls die every day, over 50 million a year, and 500 million in 10 years.

So I cannot wait and feel obliged to start them right away. Pope St. John Paul II was Canonized for many things he did in his Pontificate. St. Annibale staked his credibility, his approach to sanctity and everything else on living in the Divine Will, and the Church vindicated him as a Saint. Please read the below for more.

« I want you to know that since I have totally dedicated myself to the great work of the Divine Will, I practically don’t concern myself at all with my institutes. I talk about it with spiritual people, I keep to this point with those who are able to listen and I promote it as much as I can, even in my institutes... »

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As Father Hannibal penetrated into Luisa’s spirituality, he came to realize just how necessary it was to make known to the world all the writings on the Divine Will that our Lord made her record, to accelerate the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth, and so that the Divine Will would be done on earth as it is in heaven. In fact, he was providentially appointed not only spiritual director in all matters concerning her writings and their publication, but their ecclesiastical censor as well, as we see by what follows:

« His Excellency, the Archbishop, has given me authority over you regarding your writings and their publication, in other words, to direct you and to see to the publication of your writings. His Excellency, said, “I believe it is the right thing to do.” These faculties cover everything you have written up to this point, and all that you write in the future.

The Archbishop was pleased to put so much trust in me for this work- which is something that Jesus himself has disposed- that he named me Ecclesiastic Reviewer for all the publications of his three dioceses. And he even went so far as to get involved, by giving his authoritative Imprimatur after my Nihil Obstat.

With all this you can clearly comprehend how everything has been Will of God, and that in all things concerning your writings, both present and future, you are subject to my exclusive obedience. » http://www.divvol.org/luisa_piccarreta/en/hannibal_apostle.htm

God bless. As we approach Holy Week and the Passion, let us all, in the ways we are conscientiously assured will please God most, renew our devotion to the Passion.

 

Yes we do disagree.

Did you not read any of the links I provided?

The fact is that the Passion book was place of the index of Forbidden books:

L’Osservatore Romano (9/11/38)
“a false and dangerous mysticism which is frequent in our days. . . . [T]he Divine Will is conceived in an exaggerated, erroneous manner. . . . t was then opportune to put the faithful on their guard.”

According the Cardinal Ratzinger (Benedict XVI):

“the Index retains its moral force despite its dissolution. A decision against distributing and recommending a work, which has not beeen condemned lightly, may be reversed, but only after profound changes that neutralize the harm which such a publication could bring forth among the ordinary faithful.”

Can you tell me what changes have been made that shows the harm has been neutralized?

Why not post meditations, such as Anne Catherine Emmerich, or tradition Stations of the cross instead of unauthorized translations that are sketchy at best?

And if you must post them can’t we have these disobedient posts all in the same thread instead of making thread after thread of them?

 

And did you not read this? "One of the best-remembered episodes, according to a number of witnesses, was the time that St. Father Hannibal took the book, The Hours of the Passion, to the Holy Father, now St. Pius X (who received him privately on a number of occasions, as did Popes Benedict XV and Pius XI as well). While showing it to him, he was reading a few pages when the pope interrupted him, saying, “Not while standing, Father; this book should be read kneeling. It is Jesus Christ who is speaking.” - So Pope St. Pius X endorsed the work, and he is a Pope-Saint; that is the highest ecclesiastical endorsement of a divine Work that there is.

And just how many Nihil Obstats and Imprimaturs are you going to keep waiting for anyway? They were already given a 100 years ago specially to the Hours," He was also the first to begin publishing Luisa’s writings, the first of which was “The Hours of The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ,” which she wrote around the year 1913 or 1914. Saint Hannibal made four editions of this book (1915, 1916, 1917 and 1921), all bearing the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur ." This is the Church of a century ago, the Church of Pope St. Pius X and Pope Benedict XV, before Masonic and Communist infiltration into the Hierarchy. I trust it absolutely. And I won't cease to trust it because later on more questionable people try to prevent its dissemination afterward.

Do you know Divine Mercy Devotion (after being approved many times in 40s and early 50s) was "condemned" in 1959? The Diary was very wrongly put on the Index. But God vindicated St. Faustina in His Good Time. Can you explain what translation issue changed there? I don't need to explain it. We are no longer in normal times. When a devotion is powerful, you can expect the enemy's agents to try and prevent its spread. They did it to Divine Mercy, and they will try to do it to Divine Will. But the Church has already spoken and approved once for all.

I'm not going to take anything from that garbage rag called "L'Osservatore Romano" written by various liberal authors seriously. I've already seen many times where they've been woefully, woefully wrong.

I've seen liberal writers in that liberal rag oppose the Dogmatically Definable Doctrine of Mary Co-Redemptrix. That's enough to tell me many of those whose articles are published there unwittingly are in line with the enemies of the Church.

I read your links and I only see bias in them. Sorry. Previous Archbishops of Trani have given their approval many, many times. All of a sudden previous Imprimaturs are worth nothing and it depends solely on him?

Nobody is stopping you from starting a thread on whatever devotion you wish. The Imprimaturs in the 1900s are more than good enough for me. Not to mention Pope St. Pius X saying these are the Words of the Lord.

From the link I gave earlier. Saint Father Annibale Maria Di Francis, when he was alive, secured many Imprimaturs for it. After the death of the Saint in 1927, hell broke loose. Some wolves tried to attack this ecclesiastically approved work. They did not succeed and will not.

Acts 5:29 "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." God has already spoken by His Voice, He already spoke through His Saints and His Church. Now, some misguided men are trying to prevent it, not of God's Will, but of their own misguided human will. Imprimatur is given.

 

Some Promises before we go to the 8th Hour, from Midnight to 1 A.M., where Jesus is arrested by the Temple Guard.

Whoever does the Hours of the Passion makes the Life of Jesus his own and takes His same responsibilities.

Vol. 11, November 6, 1914

"As I continued the usual Hours of the Passion, my lovable Jesus told me:
“My daughter, the world is in continuous act of renewing my Passion; and since my immensity envelopes everything, inside and outside the creatures, from their contact I am forced to receive nails, thorns, scourges, scorns, spit and all the rest which I suffered in the Passion - and still more. Now, at the contact with souls who do these Hours of my Passion I feel the nails being removed, the thorns shattered, the wounds soothed, the spit taken away. I feel I am repaid in good for the evil that others do to Me, and in feeling that their contact does no harm to Me, but good, I lean more and more on them.”
In addition to this, returning to speak about these Hours of the Passion, blessed Jesus said:
“My daughter, know that by doing these Hours the soul takes my thoughts and makes them her own; she takes my reparations, prayers, desires, affections, and even my most intimate fibers, and makes them her own. And rising up between Heaven and earth, she does my same office, and as co-redemptrix, she says with Me: ‘Ecce ego, mitte me [Here I am, send me] - I want to repair for all, answer for all, and impetrate good for all’."

"More diffusion, more diffusion!"
These Hours are small sips of sweetness our souls can give to Jesus.
When a soul focuses it's mind in the life, passion and prayers of Jesus, the angels are around this soul to take it’s words, prayers, compassions, tears and offerings and uniting them to those of Jesus, they bring them to the Divine Majesty to renew in Jesus the glory of His own life.

Vol. 11, October 13, 1916
I was doing the Hours of the Passion, and blessed Jesus told me:
“My daughter, in the course of my mortal life, thousands and thousands of Angels were the cortege of my Humanity, gathering everything I did – my steps, my works, my words, and even my sighs, my pains, the drops of my Blood – in sum, everything. They were the Angels in charge of my custody, and of paying Me honor; obedient to my every wish, they would rise to and descend from Heaven, to bring to the Father what I was doing.
Now these Angels have a special office, and as the soul remembers my Life, my Passion, my Blood, my wounds, my prayers, they come around this soul and gather her words, her prayers, her acts of compassion for Me, her tears and her offerings; they unite them to mine, and they bring them before my Majesty to renew for Me the glory of my own Life.
The delight of the Angels is so great that, reverent, they listen to what the soul says, and pray together with her. So, with what attention and respect must the soul do these Hours, thinking that the Angels hang upon her lips to repeat after her what she says.”
Then He added: “After the so many bitternesses that creatures give Me, these Hours are sweet little sips that souls give Me; but for the many bitter sips I receive, the sweet ones are too few. Therefore, more diffusion, more diffusion!"

The Heavenly Father finds in Jesus His glory, complacency, and the most perfect satisfaction and love for the good of everyone, so He wants to find in the souls that, like other Jesus, resemble Him.

The soul must repeat Jesus’ intentions in every hour that it meditates on the Passion, in every action, in everything. Thus, Divine Justice will be appeased.

Vol. 11, December 9, 1916
"My daughter, do not increase my pains by worrying – they are already too many. I do not expect this from you; on the contrary, I want you to make my pains, my prayers and all of Myself your own, in such a way that I may find in you another Me. In these times I want great satisfactions, and only one who makes Me his own can give them to Me.

That which the Father found in Me – glory, delight, love, satisfactions whole and perfect, and for the good of all – I want to find in these souls, like as many other Jesuses that match Me. These intentions you must repeat in each Hour of the Passion that you do, in each action – in everything. If I do not find my satisfactions – ah, it is over for the world! The scourges will pour down in torrents. Ah, my daughter! Ah, my daughter!” And He disappeared."

Preparation Before Each Hour

O my Lord Jesus Christ, prostrate in your divine presence, I implore your most loving heart to allow me to enter into the sorrowful meditation of the twenty-four hours of your passion, in which, for love of us you wanted to suffer so much in your adorable body and in your most holy soul, even to death on the cross. O give me help, grace, love, profound compassion, and understanding of your sufferings as I now meditate this Hour.

For those hours which I cannot meditate, I offer you the will I have to meditate them; and I propose to meditate them with my intention during all the hours in which I must dedicate myself to my duties, or sleep.

Accept, O merciful Lord, my loving intention, and let it be beneficial for me and for all, as if I effectively and in a saintly way accomplished what I desire to do.

I give You thanks, O my Jesus. I thank You for calling me to union with You in prayer. To please You, I take your thoughts, your tongue, and your Heart. I want to pray with them. I want to fuse myself in your Will and in your Love. I extend my arms to embrace You, I rest my head on your Heart— and I begin….

 

My Jesus, we have already reached midnight. I hear your enemies approaching. Composing Yourself, drying your Blood, and feeling strengthened by the comfort You have received, You return to your disciples. You call them and admonish them; and, taking them with You, You go to meet your enemies. In this way with your promptness You make reparation for my slowness, unwillingness, and laziness in working and suffering for your Love.

But, O my gentle love, what a moving scene I see! The first to meet you is wicked Judas who comes up to you, throws his arms around your neck, greets you and kisses you. And you, my ardent love, do not refuse to kiss those infernal lips. You embrace him and press him to your heart, wanting to snatch him from hell by giving him new demonstrations of love.

My Jesus, how is it possible not to love You? The tenderness of your Love is so great that it should jerk every heart into loving You —and yet You are not loved! My Jesus, with this kiss, You make reparation for all the betrayals, pretenses, and deceptions worked under the cloak of friendship and sanctity, especially by consecrated souls. And with this kiss, You ask and obtain pardon for every and any penitent sinner that returns, humbled, to your most holy Heart.

O how sweetly the words that You spoke to Judas descend into my Heart:

“Friend, why have you come?”

Ah, it seems as though You address the same words to me—not in calling me “Friend,” but with the sweet name of “child,” saying, My daughter, for what have you come? You say it to hear me answer You, “Jesus, I come to love You.” “Why have you come?”, You repeat to me when I wake up in the morning; “Why have you come?”, if I pray; “Why have you come?”, You repeat to me in the Holy Host, if I come to receive You into my heart. What a beautiful call for me and for all!

But how many, to your “Why have you come?”, answer: “I come to offend You!” Others, pretending not to hear You, give themselves to all kinds of sins, and answer your “Why have you come?” by going to hell! How much compassion I feel for You, O my Jesus! I would like to take the very ropes with which your enemies are about to bind You, in order to bind these souls and spare You this sorrow.

But, again, I hear your most tender voice which says, as You go to meet your enemies:

“Who are you looking for?”

And they answer:

“Jesus the Nazarene”.

And You, to them:

“I Am”

Oh, what wickedness and ingratitude! Instead of humbling themselves and lovingly throwing themselves at your feet to ask your forgiveness, abusing your goodness and despising your graces and miracles, they lay their hands on you, and with ropes and chains, tie you and immobilize you. They throw you to the ground, trample you under their feet and tear out your hair. And, with inconceivable patience, You remain silent—suffering in atonement for the offenses of sinners, who do not surrender, but harden their hearts still more in spite of your miracles. With your ropes and chains, You rend the chains of our sins and bind us with the sweet chains of love.

You lovingly correct Peter who wants to defend You even by cutting off Malchus’ ear. In this way, You want to make reparation for good works done without holy prudence and for those who fall into sin through excessive zeal.

My most patient Jesus, these ropes and chains seem to add something more beautiful to your Sacred Humanity. Your Forehead becomes more majestic, so much so that it even attracts the attention of your enemies. Your eyes radiate more light—and your Holy Face reflects a supreme peace and sweetness that even charms your executioners. With a few gentle and penetrating words, You make them tremble, and if they dare to offend You it is only because You permit it.

O bound and enchained love, are you going to be tied for me, to show an even greater love for me, and then permit that I, your little child, be without chains? No, no. Tie me with your most holy hands, using your own ropes and chains. So, while I kiss your divine forehead, I pray you to bind my whole being: all my thoughts, my eyes, my ears, my tongue, my heart, my affections. And at the same time, tie all creatures, so that, feeling the sweetness of your loving chains, they will not dare to offend you any more.

My most tender Jesus, You have already handed Yourself over to your enemies, giving them the power to do whatever they wish with You. My Jesus, I, also, put myself in your Hands so that You may freely do with me whatever pleases You. United with You, I want to follow your Will, share in your reparations, and suffer your pains.

I want to remain always in your Presence so that there is no offense I do not repair, no bitterness I do not soothe, no spittle or insult that You receive that I do not cover with my kisses and caresses.

In your falls, my hands will always be ready to lift You. I want to be with You always and I do not wish to leave You abandoned. And to be sure of this, fuse me with Yourself. Then I will be in your mind, in your gaze, in your Heart, and in all of You—so that what You do, I will also do. In this way, I will always have You for a faithful companion and none of your pains will be able to elude me, so that I can give You my love on behalf of all creatures.

My dear good Jesus, it is already one o'clock in the morning, and my mind is beginning to drift asleep. I will do all I can to stay awake, but if sleep should take me by surprise, I will leave myself in you to follow whatever you do. What is more, you yourself will do it for me. So, my Jesus, I leave my thoughts in you to defend you from your enemies; my breath as escort and company; my heartbeat to always tell you that I love you, and to make good for the love which the others do not give you; the drops of my blood to make reparation, and to give back to you the honors and the esteem that the others will take from you with their insults, spit and slaps.

O my Jesus, embrace me and bless me. If You want me to sleep, make me sleep in your adorable Heart. As your heartbeats intensify in Love and suffering, may they awaken me often, so that our communion will never be broken.

Reflections and Practices.

Seeing the Will of the Father in his enemies, Jesus readily handed himself over to them.

When I am deceived or betrayed by creatures, am I as ready to forgive as Jesus was? Do I take all the wrongs I receive from creatures, from the hands of God? Am I ready to do everything Jesus wants from me? In the crosses and the mistreatment I receive, can I say that my patience is similar to Jesus' patience?

My chained Jesus, let your chains bind my heart and keep it steadfast, ready to suffer whatever you want."

Why the world has lost its balance: "The world has lost its balance because it has lost the thought of the Passion of Jesus. It has done as a child who has not desired to recognize his mother or like a disciple who ignores his teacher and does not want to listen to his lessons. They will become pain to themselves, terror and sorrow for their society. This is what man has become: terror and pain, pain without mercy.

Vol. 11, February 2, 1917
As I was in my usual state, I found myself outside of myself, and I found my always lovable Jesus, all dripping with blood, with a horrible crown of thorns, looking at me with difficulty through the thorns. He told me:

"My daughter, the world has become unbalanced because it has lost the thought of my Passion. In darkness, it has not found the light of my Passion which would illuminate it; and as it would make known to it my love and how much souls cost Me, it might turn to loving the One who has truly loved it; and the light of my Passion, guiding it, would put it on its guard against all dangers. In weakness, it has not found the strength of my Passion which would sustain it. In impatience, it has not found the mirror of my patience which would infuse in it calm and resignation; and in the face of my patience, feeling ashamed, it would make it its duty to dominate itself. In pains, it has not found the comfort of the pains of a God which, sustaining its pains, would infuse in it love of suffering. In sin, it has not found my sanctity which, placing itself in front of it, would infuse in it hate of sin.

Ah! man has made an abuse of everything, because in everything he has moved away from the One who could help him. This is why the world has lost balance. It behaved like a child who no longer wanted to recognize his mother; or like a disciple who, denying his master, no longer wanted to listen to his teachings, or learn his lessons. What will happen to this child and to this disciple? They will be the sorrow of themselves, and the terror and sorrow of society. Such has man become – terror and sorrow; but a sorrow without pity. Ah! man is getting worse and worse, and I cry over him with tears of blood!"

 

And the mask comes off.

 

So servant of God Father Hardon is a communist influence? And EWTN I suppose as well? After all you “see” bias in them, right?

The Bishop in authority doesn’t have a authority because a priest said so 100 years ago?

Not very strong arguments at all.

Facts are stubborn things Xavier, it seems that they are against you here.

 

You can keep arguing. Pope St. Pius X approved. Many Archbishops gave their Imprimaturs. I'm not in the mood to argue. Try to focus on devotion to the Passion.

Edit: Pope St. Pius X said these are the Words of Jesus. Till Fr. St. Annibale Maria de Francis' death, the Church's approval is very evident. After the Saint was out of the way, some tried to confuse the issue. It's a settled matter, I go with Pope St. Pius X's approval and that of the Archbishops 100 years ago.

 

You don’t get to dictate terms, or magically make up approval that isn’t there.

I’ll post the truth in this thread going forward for the benefit of others as it seems neccesary.

 

It's not magic. It's documented Papal Approval. You need to show me someone higher than a Saint-Pope if you hope to overturn it. Please answer point by point.

1. Pope St. Pius X explicitly said the Hours of the Passion are the Words of Jesus. This is well documented. Do you actually deny that he did? If not, why do you oppose the will of a Sainted Pope Here is another source: "Several witnesses relate that one day Father Annibale came to the house of Luisa more content than ever, and said that he had brought this book to the Holy Father, Saint Pious X, who had received him several times in private audience. Father Anniable was reading him one of the Hours (that of the Crucifixion), when the Pope interrupted, saying: “Not this way, Father, but kneeling one must read. It is Jesus Christ that is speaking.” Finally, Father Annibale, as Censor of the writings, obtained the Imprimatur from His Excellency the Archbishop of Trani for the volumes written by Luisa (at that time there were already nineteen)." https://www.queenofthedivinewill.org/st-pius-x/

That's Pretty High Level: A Saint Pope, and one of the most traditional Popes in history, A Staunch Anti-Modernist and Lover of Christ Crucified; His Excellency the Archbishop of Trani's Imprimatur, and a Sainted Priest. Pope St. Pius X tells you to read them while kneeling.

2. I care nothing for the temporary 1938 thing (like the temporary 1959 thing with Divine Mercy); even St. Padre Pio was "condemned" for a while under Pope Pius XI, but that was overturned later. In 1990, Cardinal Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI said this, "‘When Pope John Paul II was about to beatify Fr. Annibale di Francia on October 7, 1990, the then Msgr. Ratzinger, Cardinal and Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly, the Holy Office,) was informed by my father, Jose Luis Acuna, in May 1990, in a private audience that some of the books published by the Father Annibale di Francia whom His Holiness was going to beatify had been “condemned.” Therefore, the Cardinal had to investigate this matter personally, whether there was an error or not, and the result was that Fr. Annibale was beatified with no hinderance, after having investigated the matter and with full knowledge of it. Not only this, but His Emminence said in private to Msgr. Ricardo Guizar, who was then our Bishop of Atlacomulco, Mexico, that “All of the Writings of Luisa must be approved”.

Very exciting! Fiat!" https://bookofheaven.org/who-is-lui...ll-of-the-writings-of-luisa-must-be-approved/

3. In 1994, under Pope St. John Paul II, the Vatican approved Non Obstare for Servant of God Luisa Piccarretta. Thereafter, there are no impediments to the promotion and dissemination of her work.

4. In 2004, as already mentioned in one of the above links, Fr. Annibale was Canonized, and he specifically has praised the Hours of the Passion and asked for its widest possible dissemination. Some people today even deny Fatima. do you change your mind about Fatima because of them? No, Fatima is approved. And once approved is always approved. Can you show me an example of a Church opening Canonization process for someone who was misguided. We know Servant of God Sister Lucia was a true visionary and authentic mystic, and in the same way I know Servant of God Luisa Piccaretta was a true visionary and authentic mystic.

5. Translation issues are non-issues to me. The idea that no one can translate correctly from Italian to English is a capital absurdity. And yes, there very much are Masons and Communists in Rome today. That's not or should not be news to anyone. I go with Pope St. Pius X's and Pope St. John Paul II's Approval.

Forget Freemasons. There are modernists who don't believe in the supernatural. I'm telling you, they don't believe even Our Lady of Fatima is supernatural, though it is fully approved.

Should I believe them? Should I believe someone who denies Our Lady is Mediatrix of All Graces? No, I won't, because such a person is the one going against Church Teaching and God.

Please ask Pope Francis to say, "I condemn the Divine Will Devotion (and then Pope St. Pius X also)" and then I will consider agreeing with you. Until then, it is really you all who oppose the Hours who are being disobedient both to Pope St. Pius X and to many Archbishops of Trani.

Archbishop Joseph Leo is one among many Archbishops of Trani who gave his Imprimatur. I trust H.E. And that's really case closed for me. You or others can keep arguing about it if you wish, but there's no point.

What you're posting is not truth at all but only demonstrating your own personal and needless opposition to this devotion. I posted Way of the Cross and the St. Bridget Prayers on other threads. You could post anything beneficial and edifying from any of your favorite devotions instead of trying to knock down the faith and devotion of your Catholic brothers and sisters. Please tell me realistically, what possible harm could come to anyone from meditating on these Hours of the Passion? The answer is absolutely no harm and much good. In my youth, I had a book called "Pilgrim's Guide to Paradise" that had all the Traditional Devotions and Promises. (Very much like this: https://www.amazon.com/Prayers-Heavenly-Promises-Joan-Carroll/dp/089555397X) I said them, and I experienced the Truth of those Promises of Our Lord and Our Lady. But I've scarcely ever found a Devotion thus far so powerful where Our Lord, with approval of His Saints, has said that He will give us a Soul for every word we say in the Hours, provided we do so in full Union with His Holy Will. There are hundreds of thousands of souls that could be saved by this devotion, and apart from the personal benefit that will come to those who meditate on the Passion using these Hours, that is my interest in defending and promoting it. That is all. Please feel free to post on your own favorite devotion and promote them on any thread rather than trying to tear down the favorite devotions of others.

 

Xavier. you are going to make a great priest!

 

1. Personal opinions of pontiffs are just that, personal opinions, his statement - if even in fact said and verified by a third party source (which you failed to demonstrate) is not considered authoritative at all.

This shouldn’t even be a question. The stretch to claim papal acceptance based on this is wider than anyone I’ve ever heard trying to attempt.

Furthermore just because a saint had an opinion on something doesn’t make it infallible. Otherwise the dogma of the Immaculate Conception would never had been according to St. Bernard.

2)If you care nothing of what the Church said after 1938 then you care nothing for the Church that Christ has established. Who made you an authority on what is acceptable and what isn’t?

What an upsetting statement.

The fact is, even acknowledged by the Ordinary who is supportive, that there is no approval of the translations you are using and he asked for obedience in this matter.

3) There Has been no approval of Luisa’s works. Declaring someone Servant if God does not authoritative declare their works approved. The onus is on you to prove that it does - which obviously you can’t (see previous links from EWTN and Servant of God Fr. Hardon).

4) Example: St. Bernard who argued against the Immaculate Conception.

And as I said before, Luisa’s writings are not once a part of the discernment in him being a Saint. Can you document where it was?

5) The possible harm is exactly which I posted before, this devotion was deemed potential harmful in that it distorts the tradition way Divine Will has been known and thought in the Catholic Chirch. Instead of calling it a rag and accusing it of being from Freemasons, why don’t you read the links and do some research.

There is no approval of Luisa’s writings that you are using.


All my documentation has been posted before, but to no avail. Anyone is free to scroll back and see what I am saying is true.

I do feel free to post. And I will continue to do so. It is time that restrains me for the most part (otherwise we would have a great conversation about the Poem of the man god, which is pure bad fiction).

Please answer me this: do you not acknowledge EWTN had discussion and documentation on the current status? If not are they part of the infiltration? Or do you think they are lying? What if their sources, do you feel they are not trustworthy?


This interpretation is dangerous, I will always find time to warn other of it.

 

Thanks, Patty, you're very kind. God bless you abundantly in this Holy Week. Thank you for defending and supporting the Hours of the Passion.

It's very clear to us Servant of God Luisa Piccarretta was a very holy woman, a victim soul, living only for Christ Crucified, and His Eucharist, His Sacrament of Love. I want to thank you all so much for your good example of praying the Passion now for many years and teaching it to me. If by the Grace of God, very many more begin to pray it in coming years, we have reason to believe and to hope that the coming chastisement on Mother Church may be mitigated, at least in part.

Frodo, I'll get back to you in a later post. I'm a day late, since I failed to post the Hour yesterday. Despite our disagreement, I pray you have a blessed Holy Week.

The Ninth Hour: 1 A.M. to 2 A.M

From 1 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Pushed from a rock, Jesus falls into the Cedron Stream.

Prayer of Preparation

My beloved Good, my poor mind follows You between vigil and sleep. How can I leave myself prey to sleep, when I see that everyone leaves You and runs away from You? The Apostles themselves, the fervent Peter, who a little while ago said he wanted to give his life for You; the beloved disciple whom, with so much love, You allowed to rest upon your Heart – ah, they all abandon You, and leave You at the mercy of your cruel enemies!

My Jesus, You are alone! Your most pure eyes look around to see if at least one of those favored by You is following You to prove to You his love and to defend You. And as You see that no one – no one has remained faithful to You, your Heart catches, and You burst into crying. You feel more pain for the abandonment of your most faithful ones, than for what the very enemies are doing to You.

My Jesus, don't cry, or else let me cry together with you. But my gentle Jesus seems to say to me: “Ah, my child, let us weep together for the lot of so many souls consecrated to me, who, for little trials or for incidents of life, no longer attend to me and leave me alone; for so many others, timid and cowardly, who, for lack of courage and trust, abandon me. Let us weep for so many priests, who, not finding any profit in sacred things and in the administration of the sacraments, do not attend to me. For others who preach, celebrate and hear confession for love of their own interests and selfglory, so that while it seems they are around me I remain ever alone. O my child, how hard this abandonment is for Me! Not only do my eyes weep, but my Heart bleeds! O I pray you to make reparation for my bitter pain by promising never to leave Me alone.”

Yes, O my Jesus, with the strength of your Divine Will and the help of your grace, I promise never to leave you alone. But as you weep over the abandonment of your dear ones, O Jesus, your enemies spare you no possible outrage. Bound and tied as you are, my good Jesus, so that you can't even take a step, they trample you and drag you through those ways full of rocks and thorns. So, there is no movement they make you do which does not make you stumble on the rocks and be pricked by the thorns. O my Jesus, while they drag You, I see that You leave a trail with your Precious Blood and with the golden hairs that they tear from your Head. My Life and my All, permit me to gather your steps and bind them to all the steps that creatures take to offend You, even at night. Indeed, some use the night to offend You even more than the daylight—some with meetings, others with pleasures or theaters, and still others with sacrilegious thefts. My Jesus, I unite with You to make reparation for all these offenses.

O my Jesus, we are now at the Cedron Stream, and the wicked Jews shove you in. As they do this, they make you strike so hard against a rock there, that from your mouth you shed your most precious blood, leaving that rock marked with it. Then they pull you down into those foul waters, making them enter into your ears, into your mouth, into your nose. O unsurpassable love! You are soaked and, as it were, cloaked by those foul, nauseating and cold waters. In this state, you realistically represent the pitiful state of creatures when they commit sin. Oh, how they are covered inside and out by a cloak of filthiness which disgusts heaven and whoever may see them, and draws down on themselves the thunderbolts of the divine justice! O life of my life, could there ever be a greater love? To strip us of this mantle of filthiness, you permit your enemies to drag you down into this stream. And so you make reparation for the sacrileges and the coldness of the souls that receive you sacrilegiously, forcing you to enter their hearts and making you feel, more than you do from the stream, all the nausea of their souls!

You also permit that these waters penetrate deep into your bowels; so much so, that the enemies, fearing that You may be drowned, in order to spare You for greater torments, lift You up. But You are so disgusting that they themselves feel nauseated to touch You. My tender Jesus, You are now out of the stream. My heart cannot stand to see you bathed in these nauseating waters like this. I see that you are trembling from head to foot because of the cold. You look around, searching with your eyes for that which you do not do with your voice: at least someone to dry you, clean you and warm you—but in vain. No one is moved to compassion for you. Your enemies ridicule and mock you, your dear ones have abandoned you, and your gentle mother is far away because the Father has so disposed it!

O Jesus, here I am! Come into my arms. I want to weep until I form a bath to wash you. With my hands I want to clean you and order your disheveled hair. My love, I want to enclose you in my heart and warm you with the warmth of my affections. I want to perfume you with my continuous desires. I want to make reparation for all these offenses, and unite my life to yours to save all souls. I want to offer you my heart as a resting place, to restore you some from the pains you have suffered up to now. Then, we will resume the way of your passion together.

Reflections and Practices

In this hour, Jesus places Himself at the mercy of his enemies, who go so far as to throw Him into the Cedron stream. But gracious Jesus looks at them lovingly and endures everything for love of them. Do I cast myself upon God’s mercy? Can I say that I am like a rubber ball in the hands of my Jesus, not intent on what I am suffering, but on what my Jesus wants from me? Have I ever thought about the purpose of a rubber ball? It’s for playing, and very often Jesus likes to play with a soul, holding her in his hands just as he holds a ball, now squeezing it, now hitting it, now throwing it in the air or on to the ground, and the ball does not speak, allowing Jesus to do what He will with it.

Similarly, we must endure everything that Jesus wants from us and not mind if, like a little ball in Jesus’ hands, we feel pain as we are hit and struck, as long as we keep Jesus amused, since He knows how profitable this is for us, and how He will reward us in this and the next life. Sometimes, Jesus steps on the ball with his feet, showing that He does not care for it, and the soul, pressing close to his divine feet, suffers Jesus’ humiliation and indifference. At other times, He wants to hold the ball to his Heart, and if the soul was glad to have been Jesus’ toy, both in humiliation and in suffering, the loving Jesus will amuse her in his own Heart, and will reveal to her the contentments of his divine Heart. In my weaknesses and failures, Am I ready to pick myself up again and throw myself into the arms of Jesus? Tormented Jesus was thrown into the Cedron Stream and experienced suffocation, nausea, and disgust.

Do I detest every stain and shadow of sin? Am I ready to shelter Jesus in my heart so that He does not experience the disgust that other souls cause Him through sin, consoling Him for the many times I myself have caused it?

 

My tormented Jesus, do not spare me in anything, but grant that I may be the object of your loving, divine games.

Thanksgiving after each hour

My Beloved Jesus, You have called me to this Hour of your Passion to keep You company—and I have come. I seem to have heard you, anguished and sorrowful, praying, making reparation and suffering. With the most loving, eloquent voices you were pleading for the salvation of souls. I tried to follow You in everything. Now, I owe You my heartfelt “Thank You” and “I bless You.”

Yes, O Jesus, I repeat my “Thank You” thousands and thousands of times. I bless You for all that You have done and suffered for me and for everyone. I thank You and I bless You for every drop of Blood You shed. I thank You for every breath, for every heartbeat, and for every step. I thank You for every word, glance, affliction, and outrage that You had to endure. In everything, O my Jesus, I intend to give You my “Thank You” and “I bless You.” O my Jesus, let my soul send forth a continuous flow of thanksgiving and blessings to You—to draw down upon all of us the abundant flow of your blessings and graces. Please, O Jesus, press me to your Heart, and with your most holy hands seal every particle of my being with your “I bless you”, so that nothing other than a continuous hymn to You may come from me.

So I leave my being within Yours, to follow you in all you do; better still, you will be so alive in me that I will leave my thoughts in you to defend you from your enemies, my breaths as a faithful companion, my heartbeat to recall my “I love you,” and to give you the love that the others refuse to give you; I will give you the drops of my blood to atone and make up the honor and regard that your enemies deny you with their insults and offenses. I will leave my entire being as a guard.

My dear love, while I must go about my duties, I will remain in your heart. I am afraid to leave It. Is it not true that You will keep me here? Our heartbeats will continually touch so that You will give me life, love, and close and inseparable union with You.

Jesus, if You see that I am about to run from You at times, let your heartbeat hasten in mine. Let your hands press me closer to your Heart; let your eyes look at me and pierce me with rays of fire so that I may feel your presence and immediately return to union with You.

O my Jesus, be on guard so that I may not exhaust You. I beg You to watch over me. O give me a kiss, embrace me, and bless me! Give me your most holy hands so that I can do all that I must do united with You! My Jesus, give me the kiss of Divine Love, embrace me and bless me; I will kiss your intoxicating Heart, and take my rest in You."

The Next Hour: The Tenth Hour: 2 A.M. to 3 A.M: Jesus is presented to Annas.

Some Testimonies from the Saints on the wonderful benefits and amazing spiritual good that comes from meditating on the Passion: "
We would like to add a few remarks made by some of the saints that refer to the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ and we hope that they be useful to your soul.

Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, MEDITATIONS ON THE PASSION OF JESUS CHRIST,Introduction.

"He who desires", says St. Bonaventure, "to go on advancing from virtue to virtue, from grace to grace, should meditate continually on the Passion of Jesus." And he adds that "there is no practice more profitable for the entire sanctification of the soul than the frequent meditation of the sufferings of Jesus Christ."

St. Augustine also said that a single tear shed at the remembrance of the Passion of Jesus is worth more than a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, or a year of fasting on bread and water.

St. Josemaría Escrivá
Furrow, Penance 993

In our meditation, the Passion of Christ comes out of its cold historical frame and stops being a pious consideration, presenting itself before our eyes, as terrible, brutal, savage, bloody... yet full of Love.
—And we feel that sin cannot be regarded as just a trivial error: to sin is to crucify the Son of God, to tear his hands and feet with hammer blows, and to make his heart break.

St Paul of Cross,Spiritual diary.

"The remembrance of the most holy Passion of Jesus Christ is the door through which the soul enters into intimate union with God, interior recollection and most sublime contemplation..."

"The Passion of Christ is the greatest and most stupendous work of Divine Love. "The greatest and most overwhelming work of God's love."

"The most holy Passion of Jesus Christ is the most efficacious means to convert obstinate sinners."

"The holy sufferings of Jesus is a sea of sorrows, but it is also a sea of love. Ask the Lord to teach you to fish in this sea. Immerse yourself in it, and, no matter how deeply you go, you will never reach the bottom. Allow yourself to be penetrated with love and sorrow. In this way you will make the sufferings of the gentle Jesus your own. Fish for the pearls of the virtues of Jesus. This holy fishing is done without words." 8th April, 1758

From: http://www.passioiesus.org/en/santos/citas_santos.htm

 

Thank you Xavier for your work in promoting devotion to the Divine Will, it has been a life changer for me and many others I know of.

I realise some may find this newish revelation difficult to take on but it is interesting that one of the books on Luisa's life, "The Sun of My Will" by Maria Rosaria Del Genio has the Copyright (2015) of Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

I find it strange that if I was to go to Corato and brush up on my Italian, I could say these prayers with no hindrance, and yet am cautioned against saying the exact same prayers in a different language at home.