{"id":78855,"date":"2025-12-07T09:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=78855"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:41:29","slug":"an-hour-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/an-hour-of-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"An Hour Of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>From Kathleen Murphy:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Our Lady\u2019s appearance to Sister Pierina in Italy she requested:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hour of Grace: Noon to 1 PM on December 8th!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0REQUEST OF BLESSED MOTHER FOR THE HOUR OF GRACE<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Day and time of Hour of Grace \u2013 December 8th Feast of the Immaculate Conception \u2013 to be started at 12 noon and will continue until 1 PM (one full hour of prayer)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During this hour the person making the \u2018Hour of Grace\u2019 either at home or in the Church must put away all distractions (do not answer the telephone or answer any doors or do anything but totally concentrate on your union with God during this Special Hour of Grace)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Begin the Hour of Grace by praying three times the 51st Psalm with outstretched arms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The rest of the Hour of Grace may be spent in silent communication with God meditating upon the Passion of Jesus saying the Holy Rosary, praising God in your own way or by using favorite prayers, singing hymns, meditating upon other Psalms, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em><u>History<\/u>: During the period of November 24 1946 to December 8, 1947, the Blessed Mother appeared to Sister Pierina in a little church in Montichiari, Italy, eleven times.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>On the first appearance the Blessed Mother told Sister Pierina She wanted to be known as the Mystical Rose and that an hour of grace should be kept at noon, December 8th, in all the Catholic Churches of the world. The Blessed Mother wanted this to be known through all Italy, and the entire world.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0On the first appearance the Blessed Mother told Sister Pierina that She wanted to be known as the \u2018Mystical Rose\u2019 and that an hour of grace should be kept at noon, December 8th in all the Catholic Churches of the world. The Blessed Mother wanted this to be known through all of Italy and the entire world.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Many divine and bodily graces will be received through this devotion. \u2026 This Hour of Grace will produce great and numerous conversions. Hardened and cold hearts resembling this marble will be touched by divine Grace, and they will become faithful to Our Lord in loyal love. \u2026<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0The Blessed Virgin promised that whatever a person asked Her for during this Hour of Grace (even in impossible cases) would be granted to them, if it was in accordance with the will of the Eternal Father. . . .<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>\u2026 If anyone is unable to visit his church, \u2026pray at noon at home.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"apparitions\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1765101561\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"An Hour Of Grace\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Kathleen Murphy: In Our Lady\u2019s appearance to Sister Pierina in Italy she requested: Hour of Grace: Noon to 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-apparitions","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}