Eucharistic Adoration

 

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION SCHEDULE

 

Thursday:  9:00 - 3:00 PM
 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

DO YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS TRULY PRESENT IN THE MOST HOLY EUCHARIST?

                                         

If so, why would you not want to spend an hour with Him by visiting and adoring Him? You may ask yourself, what is point of Eucharistic adoration when it appears that I have more important things to do.

Or that I am too busy, or that I prefer to spend time in front of the TV watching my favorite shows? The purpose and the benefits of Adoring Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament is quoted by some, who are saints. 

 Let us take to heart their words of wisdom:

 

1) Every Holy Hour we make so pleases the Heart of Jesus that it is recorded in Heaven and retold for all eternity (Mother Teresa).

 

2) The spiritual lives of our families are strengthen through our Holy Hour. (St. John Paul II)

 

3) A Holy Hour of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament is so important to Jesus that a multitude of souls

go to Heaven who otherwise would have gone to hell. (Jesus revelation to Blessed Dina Belanger)

 

4) The only time our Lord asked the Apostles for anything was the night He went into agony. Not for

activity did He plead but for an Hour of companionship. (Archbishop Fulton Sheen)

 

5) (Perpetual) Adoration extends its influence far beyond the individual adorers, touching their homes

and families and reaching out to the parish community and beyond. (Pope Paul VI).

 

6) Each time you approach the Blessed Sacrament remember that Jesus has been waiting for you for

twenty centuries for this personal visit from you . (Josemaria Escriva)

 

7). The grace of adoration of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament is given to everybody. (St. Peter Julian Eymard).

 

8). Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in

the Eucharist will obtain a more abundant measure of grace. (St. Alphonsus Ligori)

 

9). St. Vincent de Paul would make a Holy Hour asking the Lord blessings on important business transactions

and, afterwards, returned to thank the Lord. (St. Vincent de Paul)

 

10). I strongly recommend that each of us make a resolution, no matter how much the decision may cost

us, to make a holy hour before the Blessed Sacrament. . . once a week. (Fr. John Hardon)

 

11. Do you want the Lord to give you many graces? Visit Him often. Do you want Him to give  few grace?

      Visit Him a few times. Do you want the devil to attack you? Visit Jesus rarely in the Blessed Sacrament.

      Do you want him to flee from you? Visit Jesus often! (St. John Bosco)

 

12. Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His Hands full of graces and He is ready to bestow them on

     anyone who asks for them. (St. Peter Alcantara)

 

13. A Holy Hour in front of the Blessed Sacrament is worth more than a thousands years of human glory. (St. Padre Pio)

 

14. It is our duty to adore the Blessed Sacrament. No one receives the Blessed Sacrament unless he adores It.

     ---and not only do we not sin by adoring, we do sin by not adoring. (St. Augustine)

 

15. The faithful are to hold the Eucharist in high honor....worshipping It with supreme adoration. (Code of Canon Law #898)

 

16. During our Holy Hour we lift up to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus those souls in the most need of His  Mercy (Letters to a Brother Priest)

 

17. A Holy Hour bring Heavens choicest blessings on those who are faithful to their hour (Pope Paul VI)

 

18. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament consoles a soul far beyond what the world can offer. (St. Alphons Ligouri)

 

19. There is no doubt that a flood of graces will descend upon your family and the world if more souls would become docile pupils of adoration (Pope John XXIII)

 

20. If souls but understood the Treasure they possess in the Divine Eucharistic the churches would overflow with adorers no less by night than by day (Blessed Dina Belanger)

 

21. It is impossible in human terms too exaggerate the importance of being in adoration before the Eucharist as often and for as long as our duties and state of life allow (Fr. John Hanrden)

 

22. By being faithful to a Holy Hour of Adoration you can teach by example. "The young should be taught the value of Eucharistic Adoration". (St. John Paul II)

 

23. Jesus Himself is calling you to spend one special hour with Him each week. (St. John Paul II)

 

24. In order to convert America and save the world what we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in Holy Hour of prayer. (Mother Teresa)

 

25. A Holy Hour will give you more strength during life and more consolation at the hour of your death and eternity. (S. Alphonsus Liguori)

 

26. "You can come to Me (in Eucharistic adoration) at any moment, at any time; I want to speak to you and I  desire to grant you graces" (Jesus to St. Faustina)

 

27. I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours

             later in the beatific vision of God. (St. Gertrude)

 

28. "I have a burning thirst to be honored by men in the Blessed Sacrament" (Jesus speaking to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque)

 

29. (Perpetual) adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament is the devotion which surpasses all others. (St. Pius X)

 

30. Our Lord is hidden there in the Blessed Sacrament waiting for us to come and visit Him, and make our request to Him.  (St. John Vianney)

 

31. The Eucharist bathes the tormented soul in light and love. Then the soul appreciates these words "Come all you who are sick, I will restore your health". (St. Bernadette Soubirous)

 

32. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world. (Archbishop Fulton Sheen)

 

33. When our Lord sees pure souls coming to visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament He smiles on them. They come with the simplicity that pleases Him so much. (St. John Vianney)

 

34 Jesus revealed to St. Faustina at Adoration that "beneath these rays (from the Eucharist) a heart will be warmed even if it were like a block of ice; hard as rock..." (St. Faustina)

 

35. Eucharistic Adoration is the most necessary mission of the Church, which has even more need of prayerful souls than of powerful preaches or men eloquence. (St. Peter Julian Eymard)

 

36. We represent those in the world  who do not know Jesus during our Holy Hour of Adoration. (St. John Paull II)

 

37. The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions. (Pope Leo III)

 

38. We are not called to great penances. . . but the Holy Hour is a sacrifice in union with Christ. (ARchbishop Fulton Sheen)

 

39. A Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration helps to bring everlasting peace to earth. (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

 

40. Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Eucharist. This is the measure of its spritiual life, fatih, charity and virtue. (St. Peter Julian Eymard)

 

41. The same piety that moves the faithful to Eucharistic Adoration attracts them to a deeper participation in the Mass. (Congreagation of Divine Worship 2001)

 

42. You should take up as your own cause a Holy Hour of Adoration so that Peace and Unity can be brought about in the Church. (St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi)

 

43. A Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration is the best way to grow spiritually (outside the Mass). Pope Paul VI)

 

44. The only time our Lord asked the Apostles for anything was the night He went into agony. Not for activity did He plead but for an Hour of companionship. (St. Pope Pius X)

 

45. Even a quarter of an hour's prayer in front of the Eucharist perhaps gains more graces than all the other spiritual exercises of the day (outside the Mass). (St. Alphonsus Ligouri)

 

46. I beg you to show the greatest possible reverence for the Eucharist through Whom all things have been brought to peace and reconciled with Almighty God (St. Francis of Assisi)

 

47. A Holy Hour before the Most Blessed Sacrament repairs for evils of the world. (St. John Paul II)

 

48. Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him in Adoration. (Bishop Fulton Sheen)

 

49. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth! (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

 

50. A Holy Hour helps the one in the world in most need of God's Mercy. (St. John Paull II)

 

51. We contribute to the radical transformation of the world during our Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration. (St. John Paul II)

 

52. Our Holy Hour of Eucharistic adoration acknowledges Christ as the spiritual center of our community. (Pope Paul VI)

 

53. During our Holy Hour we grow more and more into His likeness. (Archbishop Fulton Sheen)

 

54. Eucharistic Adoration will make your soul everlasting more glorious and beautiful in heaven. (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

 

55. A Holy Hour of Adoration in our modern rat race is necessary for authentic prayer. (Bishop Fulton Sheen)

 

56. A Holy Hour of adoration testifies to the fact that the Jesus who died on the cross, is present in the Eucharist,

         and reigns in Heaven, are identical. (Pope Pius XII)

 

57. Devotion to the Eucharist is the most noble, because it has God as its objects; it is the most profitable for salvation, it gives us the Author of Grace. (St. Pope Pius X)

     

58.  A Holy Hour before the Most Blessed Sacrament so pleases the Heart of Jesus, that every man, woman, and child on earth receives a new effect of God's graces. (St. Faustina)

         

59.   Take refuge often at the feet of Jesus. . .  my dear ones, the visit to the Blessed Sacrament is an extremely

necessary way to conquer evil.  Therefore, go often to visit Jesus and the devil will not come out victorious against you. (St. John Bosco)

         

60.   A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communicating with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. (St. Padre Pio)