3 o' clock prayer (partially found Filipino prayer habit interstitial; 1980s-2000s)

The Flashing "Get the 3 O' Clock Habit" graphic.

Status: Lost

The 3 o' clock Prayer is a daily Catholic prayer habit in the Philippines of praying at 3 o' clock. It was developed by the Divine Mercy Say a Little Prayer Movement

In the 1980s, networks including BBC 2, PTV 4 and RPN 9 aired a daily 3 o' clock Prayer.

Premise

The segment begins the clock says 3 o clock along the flashing "Get the 3 o' Clock Habit" appears on screen while the voiceover signalling the few seconds before the hour and every day, the image of Divine Mercy appears while the words "JESUS I TRUST IN YOU" zooms in, then the text "The 3-O'Clock Prayer" appears over the image. The voiceover overviews 3 o' clock "The Hour of Great Mercy" then the image of Jesus Christ crucified on the cross appears (in the late 90s-early 2000s version aired on ABS-CBN, the image was replaced with different images of Jesus including the close up of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane). The voiceover informing the viewers to get the leaflets ready and the prayer was recited on screen. The prayer ends with voiceover said the entire nation starting beautiful habit, along with pictures of Prisoners holding prayer leaflets, a little girl reciting the prayer while seeing the poster, a group of female school students holding the prayer leaflets and the rosary, a group of families reading a prayer booklet, and a image displayed while the entire family reciting the prayer at home. The segment ends with the graphic regarding the free booklet information with the telephone number and the address of the Divine Mercy Say a Little Prayer Movement appeared on screen, followed by a plugging of the Divine Mercy Hospital and Information Center. The plugging was said to look like this:

Be an act of Mercy!

Give life, Save Souls.
Help the Divine Mercy Hospital and Information Center.

When I was sick, who you comfort me?

The segment also ends with a quote from the Diary of Sister Faustina along with the image of Saint Faustina appears on screen. The quote was said to look like this:

Words of Our Lord to the Blessed Sister Faustina:

"Save the spread the Honor of my Mercy,
I shield throught their entire lifes of a tender
mother her infant, and the hour of our death,
I will not be a judge from them,

but the merciful savior."

The second version of the prayer segment aired between the 1990s and early 2000s has revised with ending segment cuts the scenes of Prisoners holding prayer leaflets, and a little girl reciting the prayer while seeing the poster, while Bro. Don de Castro himself doing the plugging regarding film showing and information about the message of Divine Mercy, with pictures of a talk, the set of materials and the images of the Divine Mercy Say a Little Prayer Movement headquarters, along with the same image of the proposed Divine Mercy Hospital and Information Center and the Words of Our Lord to the Blessed Sister Faustina from the first version was reused.

The third version of the prayer segment aired between the mid to late 2000s with Bro. Don saying the entire Philippines pauses a brief moment of prayer. The opening were looked like this:

Each day at Three o'clock in the afternoon, the Philippines pauses for a brief moment of prayer, for peace and forgiveness of sins

The ending segment restored the scenes of Prisoners holding prayer leaflets, and a little girl reciting the prayer while seeing the poster. The closing plug has a plugging regarding the Divine Mercy Say a Little Prayer Movement contact numbers along with the promotion of the now defunct Divine Mercy Channel which is available on Global Destiny Cable and online via JumpTV webstreaming service.

Availability

It is said to be aired on BBC 2, RPN 9, and PTV 4, then the second version of the prayer segment was showed on ABS-CBN between the early 1990s until 2002, when the network launches its own prayer segment in the same year. The third version was aired in the mid to late 2000s on NBN 4.

However, the first and second versions of the interstitial hasn't yet resurfaced on the web.