PART I - Preface by Blessed Annibale • Preface, by Blessed Annibale M. di Francia .................................................................................. p. 1 • About the first editions of the Hours of the Passion and the ‘pious Author’ ................................. p. 3 • Overview of the Writings of the ‘pious Author’ of the Hours of the Passion .............................. p. 6 • Exhortation .................................................................................................................................... p. 7 • How these Hours can be done ....................................................................................................... p. 8 • Scheme of the 24 Hours of the Passion ......................................................................................... p. 9 • Value and Effects of the Hours of the Passion from a letter of Luisa and from her Writings ...... p. 10 PART II - The 24 Hours of the Passion of Our Lord • Preparation before each Hour ....................................................................................................... p. 21 • Thanksgiving after each Hour ....................................................................................................... p. 21 • First Hour (from 5 to 6 pm) Jesus takes leave of his Most Holy Mother ...................................... p. 21 • Second Hour (from 6 to 7 pm) Jesus sets out for the Cenacle ...................................................... p. 24 • Third Hour (from 7 to 8 pm) The Legal Supper ............................................................................ p. 27 • Fourth Hour (from 8 to 9 pm) The Eucharistic Supper ................................................................. p. 30 • Fifth Hour (from 9 to 10 pm) First Hour of Agony in the Garden ................................................ p. 37 • Sixth Hour (from 10 to 11 pm) Second Hour of Agony in the Garden.......................................... p. 40 • Seventh Hour (from 11 pm to midnight) Third Hour of Agony in the Garden ............................. p. 44 -ii- • Eighth Hour (from midnight to 1am) Jesus is arrested .................................................................. p. 51 • Ninth Hour (from 1 to 2 am) Jesus falls into the Cedron stream .................................................. p. 54 • Tenth Hour (from 2 to 3 am) Jesus is presented to Annas ............................................................ p. 55 • Eleventh Hour (from 3 to 4 am) Jesus in the house of Caiphas .................................................... p. 57 • Twelfth Hour (from 4 to 5 am) Jesus at the mercy of the soldiers ................................................ p. 59 • Thirteenth Hour (from 5 to 6 am) Jesus in prison ......................................................................... p. 61 • Fourteenth Hour (from 6 to 7 am) Jesus before Caiphas again, condemned to death .................. p. 64 • Fifteenth Hour (from 7 to 8 am) Jesus before Pilate who sends Him to Herod ............................ p. 66 • Sixteenth Hour (from 8 to 9 am) Jesus back to Pilate, placed after Barabbas, and scourged ...... p. 68 • Seventeenth Hour (from 9 to 10 am) Crowned with thorns, “Ecce Homo”, condemned ............. p. 71 • Eighteenth Hour (from 10 to 11 am) Jesus takes up his Cross ..................................................... p. 76 • Nineteenth Hour (from 11 am to 12 pm) Jesus is crucified .......................................................... p. 82 • Twentieth Hour (from 12 to 1 pm) First Hour of Agony on the Cross ......................................... p. 90 • Twenty-first Hour (from 1 to 2 pm) Second Hour of Agony on the Cross ................................... p. 94 • Twenty-second Hour (from 2 to 3 pm) Third Hour of Agony on the Cross, death of Jesus ......... p. 98 • Twenty-third Hour (from 3 to 4 pm) Jesus, dead, pierced by the lance ...................................... p. 102 • Twenty-fourth Hour (from 4 to 5 pm) The burial of Jesus, Most Desolate Ma