In 1882, Jesus appeared to a young Italian visionary named Luisa Piccarreta and showed her the last 24 hours of His Passion, starting with the moment He said good-bye to His Mother (just before the Last Supper) and ending with the moment He was buried. Jesus then asked Luisa to meditate on these hours.

​

After Luisa had been living the Hours of His Passion for over thirty years, Saint Hannibal told her to write the revelations in a book. Saint Hannibal was greatly moved by the book and printed it with a Preface that he wrote himself.  

​

In the Preface to the 24 Hours of the Passion, St. Hannibal recalled Christ’s promise of protection to those who pray the Hours, saying: “If on account of only one soul doing these hours, Jesus would spare a city of chastisements and would give grace to as many souls as there are words of these sorrowful hours, how many graces might a community [or any group of individuals] expect to receive?”

​

On May 16, 1917, Jesus confirmed this when He told Luisa, “These Hours are the order of the Universe; they put Heaven and earth in harmony, and restrain Me from sending the world to ruin..."

​

​Community Clocks

​

A Community Clock is a group of 24 people praying the 24-Hours together. Each person is assigned one of the 24 hours (for example, the 6 PM hour or the 4 AM hour). With each hour of the day assigned, the members of the group collectively complete the hours together. If you complete the hours as a group and want to continue the devotion as a perpetual clock, it might be helpful to assign each person an initial time and then rotate hours. That way, the burden of the nighttime hours is shared.