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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."
(Pope John Paul II, Dominicae Cenae)
2. This is a personal
invitation to you from Jesus.
"Jesus waits for us in this Sacrament of Love." (Pope John Paul
II, Dominicae Canae)
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."
(Pope John Paul II, Redeemer of Man)
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." (Pope John Paul II, Dominicai Cenae)
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." (Pope Paul IV, Mysterium Fidei)
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." (Pope John Paul II, Redeemer of Man)
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." (Pope John Paul II, Redeemer of Man)
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!" (Pope Paul
VI, Mysterium Fidei)
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."
(Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei)
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."
(Pope Paul VI, Credo of the People of God)
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." (Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei)
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." (Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei) |