available on youtube and on a certain website (you know where to find it). No offence meant to those with reservations. God's grace, blessings and peace to all.
Sorry, I don't know where to find it. Can you kindly send me a private message with the location if you don't want to risk rocking the boat.
Lent is coming up and let us remember that Our Lord promised to save entire cities if just one soul in that town recited the hours with sincerity. Earthquakes, tsunamies, fires, toxic spills, floods, extreme winter storms, power outages - what are we waiting for?
Thanks so much, Andree, for the reminder. For those interested, lots of videos can be viewed on YouTube. For those who prefer the printed version, it is available for free on some websites, online and as pdf documents. Just be careful about what websites to click. The book is also available on Amazon at a reasonable price, printed and sold by Amazon. Amazon checks people's searches on its website and if there is enough interest, it publishes and sells the searched books. Even for those who do not believe in the authenticity of Luisa's revelations, please consider the manuscript a series of meditations on the Lord's Passion. St. Annibale Maria di Francia or St. Hannibal Mary di Francia printed the first four editions of this book in 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1924. Thank you in advance for allowing forum co-members to invite people to pray and do the Hours of the Passion. It is much appreciated. In Christ and Mary, and in mutual Christian charity, Your sibling in Christ
This morning at prayer, an idea popped in my mind to spend some moments of each day keeping Our Lord and Our Blessed Mother company this Lenten season. I plan to start on Ash Wednesday with the first hour, and so on. I can complete the 24-hour set on St. Patrick's Day. Then, I hope to start the cycle again anytime during the Lenten season. On Holy Week, I hope to complete the 24 hours, spread over three days, from Holy Thursday to Holy Saturday. I know, we are all busy. It doesn't mean spending a whole hour per day. The meditations are just divided into the last 24 hours of Jesus' earthly life, from the time Jesus says goodbye to His Mama until His burial. Reading and meditating on "each hour" will probably take 15 minutes or so: · Short Prayer of Preparation at the start · Reading (e.g., first hour - "Jesus takes leave of His most holy mother"). This is a prayerful conversation with Jesus and Mother Mary, recalling their sorrows and sufferings. · Reflections and Practices. This part offers short teachings (just a brief lesson and a call to action) on how to imitate Jesus and align our lives with Him in everything). · Prayer of Thanksgiving at the end There is nothing contrary to Catholic teachings in the prayers and meditations. God bless us all!
From the Archbishop of Trani. Statement as of March, 2020 (latest statement): ..."It must be understood that the Servant of God wrote under obedience to communicate her personal experience and knowledge. She did so according to her own abilities. The assistance of divine grace in no way cancelled out the contribution--though understandably limited--of the work of the creature. Therefore, her writings contain passages with both theological and orthographic difficulties. Some portions clearly refer to an understanding linked to her own time, and therefore it would be incorrect to transpose these statements in a slavish way onto our own time without creating ambiguities and anachronisms. St. Annibale affirmed the same--having received the full consent of the Servant of God Piccarreta--when he spoke about the "indispensable work" of revising her writings, saying "there are points that, however true and holy they may be when looked at with the Spirit and holy simplicity, prudence would still restrain us from publishing" (Letter of February 23, 1927). A simplistic and indiscriminate dissemination of the Servant of God's writings--especially when manipulated and arbitrarily translated into other languages--has met with the approval and support of people, communities, and groups which have not made an effort to publish texts accompanied by the proper introduction and contextualization required by such writings of mysticism, thereby exposing readers in some cases to the possibility of subjective interpretations. A team of experts, organized by the Luisa PIccarreta Association--P.F. D.V., has spent nearly five years carrying out the arduous and complex task of carefully transcribing the original manuscripts of her Diary notebooks, and has delivered a text faithful to the original, as desired by the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints. However, this merely marks a new starting point. In fact, the continuation of the Cause for the beatification of the Servant of God to verify her exemplary conduct of life and her heroic exercise of the virtues cannot fail to take into account the fact that her writings present some ambiguities and equivocal elements. Though not to be considered doctrinal errors in themselves, these elements require great attention. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has ruled that the message contained in her writings cannot be presented in the Church today without further evaluation of them, which will take a long time due to the magnitude of the themes touched upon and the amount of text to be examined. I ask everyone to support this ongoing investiation through prayer and by offering any material resources"... https://en.luisapiccarretaofficial....ento/653b2fb5-2f44-4bb8-a8f2-c3f3f1ed52f2.pdf There is no approved English translation for Luisa's writings. The Archbishop of Trani, in charge of her cause, asks people not to distribute unauthorized translations of her work. Those who promote her cause using unapproved texts endanger Luisa's cause for sainthood and push misinformation. The Church does not endorse the notion that prayers attributed to Luisa offer 'special protection.' Even many priests and Luisa activists are unaware, or fail to mention, the issues with her work. However, given the limitations--the same or even more strict than the restrictions placed on Vassula Ryden by the Vatican--at this point in time, it is prudent to turn to sources that have the whole-hearted approval of the Church for prayer and meditation in Lent.
