the hours of the passion of our lord jesus christ

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THE HOURS OF THE
PASSION OF
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

Luisa Piccarreta
The Little Daughter of the Divine Will

THE HOURS OF THE PASSION OF
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

Luisa Piccarreta
The Little Daughter of the Divine Will
The original Italian editions of this book received
the following ecclesiastical seals of approval:

First edition
Revisione arcivescovile, Naples, February 20 ,
1915
Nihil Obstat: Francesco Sorrentino (Revisore
eccl.)
Imprimatur: A. Can. Laviano, V.G.

Second edition
Revisione arcivescovile, Naples, 1916
Nihil obstat: Francesco Sorrentino (Revisore eccl.)
Imprimatur: A. Can. Laviano, V.G.

Third edition
Revisione arcivescovile, Naples, 1917
Reimprimatur: Francesco Sorrentino (Revisore
eccl.)

Fourth edition
Messina, August 8, 1924
Nihil Obstat: D. Prestifillipo, SJ

Fifth edition
Taranto, Curia Archiepiscopale, August 28, 1934
Nihil Obstat: Delegato dall’Arcviesco, Giuseppe
Blandamura
Ad usum privatum
All English trans. from the Italian text, introductions,
annotations and theological presentations:
Rev. Joseph Leo Iannuzzi, STD, Ph.D.

Introductions, Annotations and Theological Presentations
© MHT, Inc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction .................................................................... iii
The History of this Publication ....................................... x
Preface by St. Hannibal di Francia .............................. xii
Prayer Before Each Hour ............................................ xvi
Prayer After Each Hour .............................................. xvii
First Hour: 5 PM .............................................................. 1
Second Hour: 6 PM .......................................................... 8
Third Hour: 7 PM ...........................................................15
Fourth Hour: 8 PM ........................................................ 23
Fifth Hour: 9 PM ........................................................... 41
Sixth Hour: 10 PM ......................................................... 51
Seventh Hour: 11 PM .................................................... 63
Eighth Hour: 12 AM ...................................................... 79
Ninth Hour: 1 AM .......................................................... 85
Tenth Hour: 2 AM ......................................................... 91
Eleventh Hour 3 AM ...................................................... 95
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Twelfth Hour: 4 AM .................................................... 101
Thirteenth Hour: 5 AM ............................................... 107
Fourteenth Hour: 6 AM .............................................. 115
Fifteenth Hour: 7 AM .................................................. 119
Sixteenth Hour: 8 AM ................................................. 125
Seventeenth Hour: 9 AM ............................................. 135
Eighteenth Hour: 10 AM ............................................. 151
Nineteenth Hour: 11 AM ............................................. 165
Twentieth Hour: 12 PM ............................................... 197
Twenty-First Hour: 1 PM ........................................... 209
Twenty-Second Hour: 2 PM ....................................... 223
Twenty-Third Hour: 3 PM .......................................... 233
Twenty-Fourth Hour: 4 PM ........................................ 241

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INTRODUCTION

Luisa’s appointed extraordinary confessor and
censor librorum St. Hannibal of Francia affirms that
Luisa’s meditation on Jesus’ Passion constitutes a “new
method” and “totally new approach,” which Luisa was the
first1 to introduce to the Church, as it offers reparations that
“extend and multiply themselves to infinity.” Indeed, Jesus
reveals to Luisa that as the soul meditates the “Hours of the
Passion” that he dictated to her, it assumes his own
humanity,2 intercedes for souls,3 offers the Father
reparation and satisfaction,4 and averts his Divine Justice.5
Such a soul procures “new graces,”6 a “new life of grace”7
and all the goods that Jesus desires.8
The Luisian method of meditation is one of
attentively and contemplatively assimilating the Lord’s
Passion into one’s own life.9 It is not simply the act of
recalling the sufferings of Jesus as something that occurred
2,000 years ago in a far away land; rather, it is primarily an
act of the human will entering into the Divine Will, in

1 L. Piccarreta, volume 11, November 4, 1914.
2 Ibid., vol. 11, April 10, 1913.
3 Ibid., vol. 11, October 1914.
4 Ibid., vol. 11, November 4, 1914.
5 Ibid., vol. 11, September 6, 1913.
6 Ibid., vol. 11, November 4, 1914.
7 Ibid., vol. 7, November 9, 1906.
8 Ibid., vol. 11, October 1914.
9 Ibid., vol. 12, October 24, 1918.
INTRODUCTION
which the lives of all creatures are present to us and “in
act.”10 Admittedly, Luisa uses the old scholastic expression
“in act” to convey the timelessness of Jesus acts and
sufferings on behalf of all creatures. By this she intends
that the human being’s participation in Jesus’ interior life
and sufferings may be present, concurrent and concomitant
within each one of our acts, whereby we repeat his life in
us, recover his “likeness”11 and, filling ourselves with
God,12 communicate to all generations the infinite value,
merits13 and effects of his Passion. Jesus reveals to Luisa:
“To repeat in the soul My Passion in act, is different
from one who only thinks of My pains and pities them. The
former is an act of My own life [in the Divine Will that the
soul accomplishes], which takes My place and repeats My
pains, whence I feel requited for the effects and the value of
a divine life. [The latter,] in thinking of My pains and in
offering Me pity, permits Me to experience only the soul’s
company. But do you know in whom I may repeat the pains
of My Passion in act? In the soul who possesses My Will as
the center of its life. My Will alone is one act without
succession of acts. This single act is as though fixed to one
point which never moves, and this point is eternity […]
Now, the soul who lives in My Will possesses this single

10 Ibid., vol. 11, September 21, 1913.
11 Ibid., vol. 11, April 23, 1916.
12 Ibid., vol. 11, March 24, 1913.
13 Ibid., vol. 11, April 10, 1913.
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