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We would like to welcome you to our new website dedicated to the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. |
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In these times filled with uncertainty, suffering, violence, and all kinds of abuses, we have forgotten what Our Holy Mother Church has always taught us: that all the remedies that humanity needs are in The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. |
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In order to find peace, happiness, reconciliation and to heal all the consequences caused by sin, thus to live in the Kingdom of God, which we asked for every day in the Lord’s Prayer “Thy kingdom come, thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven", it is necessary to receive the Sacraments frequently and to let The Passion of Our Lord become our daily food in prayer as well as in our daily lives. |
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The Hours of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ |
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It is providential that in our times, we have been given by Our Lord through the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta,: “The Hours of The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ,” that were published by Saint Hannibal Di Francia.
Through the meditation of The Hours of the Passion, you will realize that among all the other works that speak of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the pains of Our Most Holy Mother, this is the greatest work that the Most Loving Providence of God has given us. This work allows us to meditate one by one the internal sufferings as well as the sufferings that Our Most Beloved Redeemer suffered on the outside during his Passion. |
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The Livings Clocks |
For this reason, we want to invite everyone who enters this site to meditate daily on the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ with the help of this wonderful book, “The Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ”. At the same time, we would like to invite you to become part of a “Living Clock.” |
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A “Living Clock” is a group of 24 people who commit themselves to meditate each day, one of the Twenty-four Hours. of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. “Jesus’ joy is so immense when someone meditates on the Hours of the Passion, that He would like at least one copy of these meditations being used in every city and town. Because then it would be as if Jesus were hearing His own voice and His own prayers, which He raised to His Father during the 24 Hours of His Sorrowful Passion. And if this is done at least by a few souls in each town and city, He himself promises that the Divine Justice will be appeased in part, and punishments will be lessened during these sad times of torments and bloodshed.” |
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If the supreme purpose of every Christian is his transformation in Christ, we could not find a better aid than these Hours of the Passion. Our Lord speaking of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, his Mother, said to Luisa: |
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All the Saints left meaningful phrases referring to the Passion of Our Lord. Among so many, we chose the following quotes that Our Lord said to Saint Faustina Kowalska: |
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Saint Alphonsus de Liguori states in his book “The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ”: |
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Therefore, we would like to invite all of you to join this pious exercise of the meditation of The Hours of The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. |
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Communion in the Divine Will |
Another reason that moves us to the creation and diffusion of Living Clocks through this site is: |
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In January 2009 a group of priests from several countries, including a Bishop, a Monsignor and a permanent Deacon, gathered for the second time to meditate and study the doctrine of the Divine Will, contained in the Writings of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. |
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In our first meeting, which was held in 2008, we committed ourselves to prayer with the intention to ask our Lord to show us the best way to bring a worldwide unity among all the people present and absent at the meeting, who love and want to continue learning to live in the Divine Will. |
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Divine Providence has revealed to us that the easiest way to pray "The Hours of the Passion" is the way that Our Lord Jesus Christ showed to Luisa: praying within a "Living Clock." Based on this, we decided to form a "Living Clock" among ourselves; and in order to complete the 24 hours. |
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We have decided to suggest all of you who are united with us in prayer, studying and wanting to live in the Divine Will, to commit yourselves to the daily meditation of the Hours of the Passion indefinitely, if you wish in a living clock. For this purpose you can either contact the person to whom God has put as coordinator of your group or register through this web page; you will be assigned the hour that you will have to meditate. May God open our hearts and souls to receive the great gift of his Divine Will. |