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Preparation before each hour

Thanksgiving after each hour

First Hour: From 5 to 6 PM
Jesus takes leave of His Most Holy Mother

Second Hour: From 6 to 7 PM
Jesus departs from His Most Holy Mother and sets out for the Cenacle

Third Hour: From 7 to 8 PM
The Legal Supper

Fourth Hour: From 8 to 9 PM
The Eucharistic Supper

Fifth Hour: From 9 to 10 PM
First Hour of Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane

Sixth Hour: From 10 to 11 PM
Second Hour of Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane

Seventh Hour: From 11 PM to Midnight
Third Hour of Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane

Eighth Hour: From Midnight to 1 AM
Jesus is arrested

Ninth Hour: From 1 to 2 AM

Thrown from a ledge, Jesus falls into the Cedron Stream

Tenth Hour: From 2 to 3 AM
Jesus is presented to Annas

Eleventh Hour: From 3 to 4 AM
Jesus in the house of Caiaphas

Twelfth Hour: From 4 to 5 AM
Jesus at the mercy of the soldiers

Thirteenth Hour: From 5 to 6 AM
Jesus in prison

Fourteenth Hour: From 6 to 7 AM
Jesus before Caiaphas again, who confirms His condemnation to death and sends Him to Pilate

Fifteenth Hour: From 7 to 8 AM
Jesus before Pilate. Pilate sends Him to Herod.

Sixteenth Hour: From 8 to 9 AM
Jesus is brought back to Pilate and placed after Barabbas. Jesus is scourged.

Seventeenth Hour: From 9 to 10 AM
Jesus is crowned with thorns. Presented to the people: “Ecce Homo!” Jesus is condemned to death.

The Eighteenth Hour: From 10 to 11 AM
Jesus takes up the Cross and walks toward Calvary, where He is stripped

The Nineteenth Hour: From 11 AM to 12 PM
Jesus is Crucified

Twentieth Hour: From 12 to 1 PM
First Hour of Agony on the Cross. The First Word of Jesus.

Twenty-first Hour: From 1 to 2 PM
Second Hour of Agony on the Cross. Second, Third and Fourth Word of Jesus.

Twenty-second Hour: From 2 to 3 PM
Third Hour of Agony on the Cross. Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Word of Jesus. The Death of Jesus.

Twenty-third Hour: From 3 to 4 PM
Jesus, Dead, is Pierced by the Thrust of a Lance. The Deposition from the Cross.

Twenty-fourth Hour: From 4 to 5 PM
The Burial of Jesus. Desolated Mary Most Holy.