Our
Lord told Luisa: “Oh, how I would love that even one single soul
for each town did these Hours of my Passion! I would hear Myself in
each town, and my Justice, greatly indignant during these times,
would be placated in part.”
At the age of 17, Our Lord invited
the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta to meditate continuously on the
last 24 hours that He suffered during the course of His Passion,
beginning with the moment when He said good-bye to His Mother (that
is, before instituting the Eucharist) and ending with the moment when
He was buried.
After Luisa Piccarreta had been
living continuously the Hours of the Passion for over thirty years,
Saint Hannibal Maria Di Francia, who had been appointed as the
Ecclesiastical Censor for all her writings, commanded her under Holy
Obedience to put them into writing. Seeing the wealth of its content
and glimpsing all the good that they would do to our souls, Saint
Hannibal began having the Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus
Christ printed. One chapter is devoted to each of the 24 hours
(events) of His Passion in chronological order.
This book has Church approval and in
fact received the Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat six separate times
between 1915 and 1938, in both Italian and German editions.
Another time I was lamenting to Jesus,
because after so many sacrifices to write these Hours of the Passion,
very few were the souls who were doing them. And He: “My daughter,
do not lament - even if there were only one, you should be content.
Would I not have suffered my whole Passion even if one soul alone
were to be saved? The same for you. One should never omit good
because few avail themselves of it; all the harm is for those who do
not take advantage of it. And just as my Passion made my Humanity
acquire the merit as if all were saved, even though not all are
saved, because my Will was to save everyone, and I received merit
according to what I wanted, not according to the profit which
creatures would draw; the same for you: you will be rewarded
depending on whether your will was identified with my Will in wanting
to do good to all. All the harm is for those who, though being able
to, do not do them. These Hours are the most precious of all, because
they are nothing less than the repetition of what I did in the course
of my mortal life, and what I continue to do in the Most Holy
Sacrament. When I hear these Hours of my Passion, I hear my own
voice, my own prayers. In that soul I see my Will - that is, wanting
the good of all and repairing for all - and I feel drawn to dwell in
her, to be able to do what she herself does within her. Oh, how I
would love that even one single soul for each town did these Hours of
my Passion! I would hear Myself in each town, and my Justice, greatly
indignant during these times, would be placated in part.” Oct.
1914, vol 11.
Some of the above information came from this web site:
http://www.passioiesus.org/en/horasdelapasion/que_son.htm
Online versions of the
Hours are available at the above website and also at
http://catholicdivinewill.blogspot.com/2008/06/twenty-four-hours-of-passion.html
Check Amazon.com for
printed copies.
Nota Bene: I have been informed
that an authoritative source states that the Hours
of the Passion are not included in the
so-called moratorium on publishing Luisa's writings. The Archbishop
responsible for the Cause of the Beatification of Luisa Piccarreta
has issued the moratorium, pending final Church approval of her books
and the appearance of an official translation.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzO24tYoe_9TLW1QZUsxN21rVWc/edit?pli=1
Posted on Ash Wednesday, Feb 18, 2015 by Frank Rega, www.lifeofluisa.com
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