Jesus Promises to those who do the Hours
Promises of Jesus for Whoever Prays the Hours of the Passion
From the writings of the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta
October 7, 1915 on the 11:00 PM Hour of the Passion – From a letter of Luisa
“The purpose of this Hour is to disarm the Divine Justice. If in the other hours one make reparations, blesses and asks forgiveness, etc., with this hour one disarms and placates the Divine Justice. And being elevated itself, between Heaven and earth in the Divine Will, just as Jesus Christ did, the soul looks at the creatures and tries to lead them back to God’s Bosom by putting into act exactly what Jesus did. And the Divine Pleasure is such that Jesus anxiously awaits and feels reinvigorated by the soul that takes the greatest interest in saving its own brothers. And, as His Justice is inflamed, He seeks a refuge and a protection in the soul that wants to make His pains and souls themselves its own and that invites and constrains Him to not destroy poor humanity.”
10th April, 1913
This morning, my always amiable Jesus came, and pressing me to his Heart, said to me:” My daughter, she who always thinks of my Passion forms within her heart a font, and the more she thinks of my Passion, the more this font increases. Just as the waters that gush from a font are common to all, so this font of my Passion, which is formed in one’s heart, serves for the good of souls, for my Glory, and for the good of creatures.” And I: “Tell me, my Good Lord, what will You grant in return to those who will make the Hours of your Passion on which You had instructed me?” And He: “My daughter, I shall not regard these Hours as ‘your things, but as things done by Me, and I shall grant to you my very own merits, as if I, Myself, were, in actuality, suffering my Passion. I shall, thereby, make you obtain the effects of my Passion, according to the soul’s disposition. This, I shall accomplish on earth: Of Myself, I could not have offered you more; and in Heaven: I shall place these souls at the front, shooting them with arrows of love and of happiness for the many hours they spent in making the Hours of my Passion. And they shall shoot Me with arrows as well. What a sweet enchantment for all the blessed this shall be!”
6th September, 1913
I was thinking about the Hours of the written Passion. how they have no indulgences; and therefore, whoever does them cannot gain any indulgences, as they can with so many other prayers enriched with so many indulgences. While I was thinking of this, my always amiable Jesus, all mildness, said to me: “My daughter, with indulgenced prayers, one can gain something. Instead, the Hours of my Passion, which are my very own prayers, my reparations, and complete love, have truly issued from my Heart. Have you, perhaps, forgotten how many times I united Myself with you, in order to make these Hours together, and how I changed scourges into graces for the entire earth? Therefore, my enjoyment is so great, that instead of indulgences, I give you a handful of love which contains inestimable coins of infinite value. Then, when things are [able to be] accomplished [by the soul] with pure love, my Love discovers for you the vent, for my Love desires that the creature give relief and vent to the Creator’s Love.”
October 1914
As I was writing the Hours of the Passion, I thought to myself: “How many sacrifices there are in writing these blessed Hours of his Passion, especially when having to write down certain interior acts that passed only between Jesus and myself! What will be the recompense that Jesus shall offer me for them? And Jesus, making me hear his sweet and tender voice, said to me: “My daughter, as a recompense for having written the Hours of my Passion, for every word that you have written, I will give you a kiss, a soul.” And I: “My Love, this is for me. What will you give, instead, to those who shall make them?”
And He: “If they shall make them together with Me and with my own Will, for every word that they make, I shall give them a soul, because the greater or lesser efficacy of these Hours of my Passion is determined by the greater or lesser union they have with Me. And by making these Hours with my Will, the creature therein hides himself, whereby, my Will doing the acting, I am thus able to do all the good I want, even through the use of a single word. And I shall do this every time they make them.”
June 17, 1927.….After this, I found myself outside of myself, and while looking for my sweet Jesus I encountered Father Di Francia. He was all cheerful, and he told me: “Do you know how many beautiful surprises I found? I did not think it would be so when I was on earth, though I thought I had done good by publishing the Hours of the Passion. But the surprises I found are marvelous, enchanting, of a rarity never before seen: all the words regarding the Passion of Our Lord changed into light, one more beautiful than the other – all braided together; and these lights grow more and more as creatures do the Hours of the Passion, so more lights add to the first….”
