ONE LORD
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12 Biblical reasons and 12 Church teachings that explain the importance and need to spend a weekly hour with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament:

BIBLICAL REASONS
1. He is really there! "I Myself Am the Living Bread come down from heaven." (Jn 6:51)

2. Day and night Jesus dwells in the Blessed Sacrament because of His infinite love for you! "Behold I am with you always until the end of the world. I have loved you with an everlasting love, so I am constant in My affection for you." (Mt 28:20; Jer 31:3)

3. Each hour you spend with Jesus will deepen His Divine peace within your heart. "Come to Me all of you who are weary and find life burdensome and I will refresh you." "Cast all your anxieties on Him for He cares about you." (Mt 11:28; 1 Pt 5:7)

4. Jesus will give you all the graces you need to be happy in life. "The Lamb on the Throne will shepherd them. He will lead them to springs of life-giving water." (Rev 7:17)

5. Each moment that you spend in His Eucharistic Presence will increase His Divine life within you and deepen your personal relationship and friendship with Him. "I have come that they may have life, and have it more abundantly."  "I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who lives in Me and I in him, will produce abundantly, for apart from me you can do nothing." (Jn 10:10, 15:5)

6. Each hour you spend with Jesus on earth will leave your soul everlastingly more beautiful and glorious in heaven. "They who humble themselves shall be exalted."  "All of us, gazing on the Lords glory with unveiled faces, are being transformed from glory to glory into His very image." (Lk 18:14; 2 Cor 3:18)

7. Jesus will bless you, your family and the whole world for this hour of faith you spend with Him in the Blessed Sacrament. "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe." Faith can move mountains. "What is needed is trust."  "Behold I make all things new." (Jn 20:29; Mk 11:23; Mk 5:36; Rev 21:5)

8. For peace in our country! "If My people ... humble themselves and pray, and seek My presence ... I will revive their land." (2 Ch 7:14)

9. Each moment you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament brings joy to His Sacred Heart! "My delight is to be with you." (Prov 8:31)

10. When you look upon the Sacred Host, you look upon Jesus, the Son of God. "Indeed, this is the will of My Father, that everyone who looks upon the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life. Him I will raise up on the last day." (Jn 6:40)

11. Jesus is infinitely deserving of our unceasing thanksgiving and adoration for all He has done for our salvation. "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches, wisdom and strength, honor and glory and praise!" (Rev 5:12)

12. Jesus asks you to love Him in return by spending one quiet hour with Him each week in the Blessed Sacrament. "Where your treasure is, there is your heart."  "Could you not watch one hour with Me?" (Mt 6:21, 26:40)

CHURCH TEACHINGS
1. This is personal invitation from Jesus to you! "Jesus waits for us in this Sacrament of Love." (Art. 3)* 

2. You are greatly needed! "The Church and the world have a great need of Eucharistic worship." (Art. 3)*

3. Your hour with Jesus will repair for the evils of the world, and bring about peace on earth. The Church says, "Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him . . . May our adoration never cease." (Art. 3)*

4. You grow spiritually each moment you spend with Jesus! "The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God is to persevere and advance constantly in the Eucharistic life and Eucharistic piety and to develop spiritually in the climate of the Eucharist." (Art. 20)** 

5. Jesus is counting on you! "Every member of the Church, especially bishops and priests, must be vigilant in seeing that this 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 to it Christ shall be given back love for love and truly become the life of our souls." (Art. 20)**

6. Jesus wants more of you than Sunday Mass! "The Catholic Church has always offered and still offers the cult of Latria to the Sacrament of the Eucharist, not only during Mass, but also outside of it, reserving Consecrated Hosts with the utmost care, exposing them to solemn veneration."  "To visit the Blessed Sacrament is . . . a proof of gratitude, an expression of love, and a duty of adoration toward Christ our Lord." (Art. 56 and 66)*** 

7. 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 a week with Him in the Blessed Sacrament. "The Divine Eucharist bestows on the Christian people an incomparable dignity." (Art. 68)***

8. Day and night Jesus dwells in the Blessed Sacrament because you are the most important person in the world to Him! "Beneath the appearance of the species, Christ is contained, the invisible Head of the Church, the Redeemer of the World, the Center of all hearts. From this it follows that the worship paid to the Divine Eucharist strongly impels the soul to cultivate a social love." (Art. 70 and 71)*** 

9. The best time you spend on earth is with your Best Friend, Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament! "How great is the value of converse with Christ [in the Blessed Sacrament], for there is nothing more consoling on earth, nothing more efficacious for advancing along the road of holiness." (Art. 70)***

10. Just as you cant 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 He is in our midst, He dwells with us full of grace and truth." (Art. 68)***

11. With transforming mercy, Jesus makes our hearts one with His. Jesus stays in the Holy Eucharist so "He restores morality, nourishes virtues, consoles the afflicted, strengthens the weak. He proposes His own example to those who come to Him that all may learn to be, like Himself, meek and humble of heart and to seek not their own interests but those of God." (Art. 69)***

12. If Jesus were actually visible in the Church, everyone would run to welcome Him. He remains hidden in the Sacred Host, under the appearance of bread, because He is calling us to faith. "The Blessed Sacrament which is . . . the living heart of each of our churches. And it is our very sweet duty to honor and adore in the blessed Host which our eyes see, the Incarnate Word whom they cannot see, and who, without leaving heaven, is made present before us." (Art. 26)****

*Pope John Paul II, Dominicae Cenae
**Pope John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis
***Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei
****Pope Paul VI, Solemni Hac Liturgia

"Our Lord came to the aid of each great tribulation with a special devotion. The present and future tribulations of the Church and of nations are greater than at any other period, and this persecution is more dangerous than those of previous times. Hence, the devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions. Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist." (Pope Leo XIII)

"The devotion to the Eucharist is the most noble because it has God as its object; it is the most profitable for salvation, because It gives us the Author of Grace; it is the sweetest, because the Lord is Sweetness Itself." (Pope St. Pius X)

Pope Paul VI, in the introduction to his encyclical Mysterium Fidei (The Mystery of Faith), on the "doctrine and worship" of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, "so that the hope aroused by the [second vatican] council, that a flourishing of eucharistic piety which is now pervading the whole Church, be not frustrated by this spread of false opinions." The visit to the Blessed Sacrament . . . is a great treasure of the Catholic faith. It nourishes social love and gives us opportunities for adoration and thanksgiving, for reparation and supplication. . . . Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament [is] . . . in full accord with the teaching of the Second Vatican Council (Pope John Paul II, Phoenix Park, Ireland, 1979). 

"In fact, Perpetual Adoration, held in so many Churches of the city, in several of them held even during the night, has been an enriching feature and characteristic of this Congress. I hope that this form of Perpetual Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically, I hope that the fruit of this Congress results in the establishment of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration in all parishes and Christian communities throughout the world" (Pope John Paul II, June 1993 homily at the 45th International Eucharistic Congress in Seville, Spain).

"Outside the Eucharistic celebration, the Church is careful to venerate the Blessed Sacrament . . . . Remaining in silence before the Blessed Sacrament, it is Christ totally and really present whom we discover, whom we adore and with whom we are in contact" (Pope John Paul II, May 1996 letter to the Bishop of Liege).
 

PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION: HIS LOVE IS FOREVER!
In a letter to a child preparing to receive their first Holy Communion, Pope John Paul II wrote of the Holy Eucharist, "Jesus is the greatest Friend you will ever have . . . tell Him your secrets, tell Him your joys and the things that make you sad. Tell Him about the people whom you love." Jesus is inviting you to be with Him for one special Holy Hour each week. This hour may be spent any way you want: You may bring your own prayer books, use the books in the chapel, read the Bible, pray the Rosary, or just sit, relax and enjoy the sweet peace that comes from being in the Presence of the One Who loves you the most. You may feel that you cannot pray well. Do not let this discourage you. The mere fact that you take time out at a specific time each week to spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament pleases Him very much, and is in itself a prayer of great faith. 
Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration lasts as long as Our Lords love for us in the Blessed Sacrament lasts, which is forever. As long as Jesus loves us enough to want to be with us day and night, then we want to love Him enough to be with Him day and night. Pope John Paul II says that: "He is a God Who is near, a God Who waits for us, a God Who has chosen to remain with us. When one has faith in this Real Presence, how easy it is to be close to Him, adoring the Love of loves, how easy it is to understand the expressions of love with which, throughout the centuries, Christians have surrounded the Eucharist" (Eucharistic Congress, Peru, 1988).