“The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth. Each moment that you spend with Jesus will deepen your union with Him and make your soul everlastingly more glorious and beautiful in Heaven, and will help bring about everlasting peace on earth.”
– Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
What is Adoration in the Presence of the Blessed Sacrament?
It is highly fitting that Christ should have wanted to remain present to His Church in this unique way. Since Christ was about to take His departure from His own in His visible form, He wanted to give us His sacramental presence. Since He was about to offer Himself on the Cross to save us, He wanted us to have the memorial of the love with which He loved us “to the end,” even to the giving of His life. In His Eucharistic presence He remains mysteriously in our midst as the one who loved us and gave Himself up for us, and He remains under signs that express and communicate this love:
“The Church and the world have a great need for Eucharistic worship. Jesus awaits us in this sacrament of love. Let us not refuse the time to go to meet Him in adoration, in contemplation full of faith, and open to making amends for the serious offenses and crimes of the world. Let our adoration never cease.”
(Catechism Catholic Church; 1380)
Twelve Biblical Reasons for Wanting to Spend One Hour with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament
- He is really there!
- Day and night Jesus dwells in the Blessed Sacrament because of His Infinite love for us!
- The specific way that Jesus asks us to love Him in return is to spend one quiet hour with Him in the Blessed Sacrament.
- When we look upon the Sacred Host, we look upon Jesus, the Son of God.
- Each moment that we spend in His Eucharistic Presence will increase His Divine Life within us and deepen our personal relationship and friendship with Him.
- Each hour we spend with Jesus will deepen His Divine Peace in our hearts.
- Jesus will give us all the graces we need to be happy!
- Jesus is infinitely deserving of our unceasing thanksgiving and adoration for all He has done for our salvation.
- For peace in our world!
- Each hour we spend with Jesus on earth will leave our souls (which are everlastingly) more beautiful and glorious in heaven!
- Jesus will bless us, our families, and the whole world for this hour of faith we spend with Him in the Blessed Sacrament.
- Each moment we spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament brings joy, pleasure, and delight to His Sacred Heart!
