Value and effects of the Hours of the Passion

“…. One day I was doing the Hour in which the celestial Mama gave burial to Jesus, and I followed her closely to keep her company in her bitter desolation in order to offer her my compassion. I didn’t usually do this Hour - only sometimes; so I was debating on whether I had to do it or not. Blessed Jesus, all love, and as if He was begging me, told me: ‘My daughter, I don’t want you to neglect it. You will do it for love of Me, and in honour of my Mother. Know that each time you do it, my Mother feels as if she were personally repeating her life upon earth, and therefore repeating that glory and love which she gave Me on earth. I too feel as if my Mother were on earth again - her Maternal tenderness, her Love and all the glory that she gave Me. So, I will consider you as a Mother.’ Then, He hugged me and I heard Him saying to me, very quietly: ‘My Mother, my Mother’; and He whispered to me all that his sweet Mother did and suffered in this Hour; and I followed her. Since then, I never skipped it again, helped by His Grace. Oct 1914

 

Reflection:

I was praying some weeks ago and sensed Our Lady asking that we keep her in mind when praying the Hours of The Passion, to give a thought to where she is during his pains, and to how she is suffering. Is she at home in her little house, on the road outside the various places Jesus is being tormented, or present at his crucifixion? Wherever she is she just wants us to keep her and her sufferings in mind.

In Divine Will we can bilocate and be by her side, keeping her company in her bitter desolation and to offer her our compassion. Jesus almost begs Luisa (and us) to do this for his Mother out of love for him and in honour of her. He says if we do this for her, He will consider us as his Mother.

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