Adoration
Twelve
Reasons From The Teachings Of The Church For Wanting To Spend One Hour With
Jesus In The Blessed Sacrament
1. You are
greatly needed!
The Church and the world have a great need of Eucharistic Adoration.
2. This is a personal invitation to you from Jesus.
Jesus waits for us in this Sacrament of Love.
3. Jesus is counting on you because the Eucharist
is the center of life.
Every member of the Church must be vigilant in seeing that the sacrament of
Love shall be at the center of the life of the people of God so that through
all the manifestations of worship due Him shall be given back ‘love for
love’ and truly become the life of our souls.
4. Your hour with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament
will repair for evils of the world and bring about peace on earth.
Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Jesus and ready to make
reparation for the great evils of the world. Let your adoration never cease.
5. Day and night Jesus dwells in the Blessed
Sacrament because you are the most important person in the world to Him!
Christ is reserved in our churches as the spiritual center of the heart of
the community, the universal Church and all humanity, since within the veil
of the species, Christ is contained, the Invisible Heart of the Church, the
Redeemer of the world, the center of all hearts, by Him all things are and
of whom we exist.
6. Jesus wants you to do more than to go to Mass on
Sunday.
Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of
Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete.
7. You grow spiritually with each moment you spend
with Jesus!
Our essential commitment in life is to preserve and advance constantly in
Eucharistic life and Eucharistic piety and to grow spiritually in the
climate of the Holy Eucharist.
8. The best time you spend on earth is with Jesus,
your Best Friend, in the Blessed Sacrament!
How great is the value of conversation with Christ in the Blessed Sacrament,
for there is nothing more consoling on earth, nothing more efficacious for
advancing along the road of holiness!
9. Just as you can’t be exposed to the sun without
receiving its rays, neither can you come to Jesus exposed in the Blessed
Sacrament without receiving the Divine Rays of His Grace, His Love, His
Peace.
Christ is truly the Emmanuel, that is, God with us, day and night, His is in
our midst. He dwells with us full of grace and truth. He restores morality,
nourishes virtue, consoles the afflicted, strengthens the weak.
10. If Jesus were actually visible in church,
everyone would run to welcome Him, but He remains hidden in the Sacred Host
under the appearance of Bread, because He is calling us to faith, that we
many come to Him in humility.
The Blessed Sacrament is the ‘Living Heart’ of each of our churches and it
is our very sweet duty to honor and adore the Blessed Host, which our eyes
see, the Incarnate Word, Whom they cannon see.
11. With transforming mercy, Jesus makes our heart
one with His.
He proposes His own example to those who come to Him, that all may learn to
be like Himself, gentle and humble of heart, and to seek not their own
interest but those of God.
12. If the Pope himself would give you a special
invitation to visit him in the Vatican, this honor would be nothing in
comparison to the honor and dignity that Jesus Himself bestows upon you with
the Invitation of spending one hour with Him in the Blessed Sacrament.
The Divine Eucharist bestows upon the Christian people the incomparable
dignity.
--from the desk of Fr. Steven Rogers
