Franciscan Chapel Center

12 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..." (Mt. 28:20) because
   "I have loved you with an everlasting love, and constant is my
   affection for you." (Jer. 31:3)
3. The specific way
   that Jesus asks you to love Him in return is to SPEND ONE QUIET HOUR WITH HIM EACH WEEK
   in the Blessed Sacrament. "Where your treasure is, there is
   your heart..." (Mt. 6:21) "Could you not watch one hour
   with Me?" (Mt. 26:40)
4. 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)
5. 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 they who do not see and
   yet believe." (Jn. 20:29) "Faith can move mountains." (cf. Mk. 11:23)
   "What is needed is trust." (Mk. 5:36) "See, I make
   all things new!" (Rev. 21:5)
6. FOR
   PEACE IN OUR LAND!
   "If My people humble themselves and seek My Presence, I will revive
   their land." (2 Ch. 7:14)
7. 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)
8. Each hour you spend
   in His Eucharistic Presence will INCREASE HIS DIVINE LIFE within
   you and deepen your personal relationship with Him. "I have
   come that you may have life, and have it in abundance." (Jn. 10:10)

   "I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who lives in
   Me and I in him will produce abundantly. Apart from
   Me you can do nothing."

   (Jn. 15:5)
9. Each hour you spend
   with Jesus will DEEPEN HIS DIVINE PEACE within
   your heart. "Come to Me, all you who are weary and find life
   burdensome, and I will refresh you." (Mt. 11:28) "Cast
   all of your anxieties on Him because He cares for you." (1 Pt. 5:7)

   "My peace I give to you."

   (Jn. 14:27)
10. Each hour you spend
    with Jesus on earth will leave your soul EVERLASTINGLY MORE BEAUTIFUL AND GLORIOUS
    in heaven. "He who humbles himself shall be exalted." (cf. Lk. 18:14)
    "All of us, gazing on the Lord's glory with unveiled faces, are
    being transformed from glory to glory into His very image." (2 Cor. 3:18)
11. Each hour you spend
    with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament BRINGS JOY, PLEASURE AND DELIGHT TO HIS SACRED HEART! "My delight is to be with you." (cf. Prov. 8:31)
12. Jesus is infinitely
    DESERVING OF OUR UNCEASING THANKSGIVING AND ADORATION because of all
    that He has done for our salvation. "Worthy is the Lamb that
    was slain to receive honor and glory and praise." (Rev. 5:12)

Jesus
will spend all eternity thanking you and loving you in heaven for your
faithful commitment here on earth of spending one hour each week with
Him in the Most Blessed Sacrament.

POINTS TO REMEMBER

This
hour that Jesus wants you to spend with Him is 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 simply being in the Presence of God. You may feel you
can't pray very well. Don't let this discourage you. The mere fact that
you take time out for a specific hour each week with Jesus in the Blessed
Sacrament pleases Him very much, and is in itself a prayer of great
faith.

Please
remember that perpetual adoration in a parish is not just for a day,
a week, a month or a year. Rather, it is for always. It is not temporary,
but ongoing, lasting, permanent. The Pope says that: "Our
essential commitment in life is to grow spiritually in the climate of
the Holy Eucharist."

If
anyone should ask you, therefore, how long perpetual adoration lasts
in a parish, please respond that perpetual adoration lasts as long as
Our Lord's love for us in the Blessed Sacrament, 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.

12 CHURCH TEACHINGS

1. You
   are greatly needed!
   "The Church and the world have great need for Eucharistic adoration." (Art. 3) *
2. This
   is a personal invitation from Jesus to you!

   "Jesus waits for you in this Sacrament of Love."

   (Art. 3) *
3. Jesus
   is counting on you!
   "Every member of the Church must be vigilant in seeing that this
   Sacrament shall be given back 'love for love.'" (Art. 81) * *
4. Day
   and night Jesus dwells in the Blessed Sacrament because you are the
   most important person in the world to Him.

   "Beneath the sacramental veil, Christ is contained, the Redeemer
   of the world, by Whom we exist."

   (Art. 68) * * *
5. Jesus
   wants you to do more than 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 JPII, 9/29/79, Dublin)
6. If
   Jesus were actually visible in the 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.

   "The Blessed Sacrament is the 'Living Heart' of each of our churches,
   and it is our very sweet duty to honor and adore in the Sacred Host
   which our eyes see, the Incarnate Word, Whom they cannot see."

   (Pope Paul VI, Solemni Hac Liturgia)
7. You
   grow spiritually during each moment you spend with Jesus. "Our essential commitment
   in life is to grow spiritually in the climate of the Holy Eucharist." (Art. 81) * *
8. 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 to holiness!"

   (Art. 67) * * *
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 and 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. 67)***
10. With
    transforming mercy, Jesus makes our hearts one with His. "Jesus teaches those who come
    to Him to be like Himself, gentle and humble of heart, and to seek not
    their own will, but the will of God." (Art. 67) * * *
11. If
    the Pope himself would give you a special invitation to visit him in
    the Vatican, this honor would mean nothing in comparison to the honor
    and dignity that Jesus Himself bestows on you by this invitation of
    spending one hour each week with Him in the Blessed Sacrament. "The Divine Eucharist bestows
    an incomparable dignity upon the Christian people." (Art. 67) * * *
12. Your
    hour with Jesus will repair for the evils of the world and bring about
    peace on earth!
    "Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him, ready to
    make reparation for the great crimes of the world. May our adoration
    never cease." (Art. 3) *

* Pope
John Paul II, Dominicae Cenae

** Pope John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis

*** Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei

THE IMPORTANCE OF
A SPECIFIC HOUR

Is
Jesus important enough for you to set aside one special hour each week
to be with Him? Just
one hour once a week is all that He is asking. This is a simple matter
of putting first things first. "In everything you do, put God
first, and He will direct you and crown your efforts with success." (Prov. 3:6)

Imagine
the President or the Pope wanting you to set aside one specific hour
each week to be with them.
You would feel like the most important person in the world. You would
be overjoyed. You would tell all of your friends about it. You would
be faithful every week in keeping your appointed time. You would let
nothing interfere with your meeting with someone so important as the
President or the Pope. Should you treat Our Blessed Lord with any
less dignity?

In
order to have a constant vigil of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament,
we must make sure that each hour is covered.
Therefore, it is necessary for each person to commit himself or herself
to a specific hour once a week, for example, Tuesday at 4 p.m. In this
way, we can organize all of the 168 hours of the week in such a way
that someone is with Jesus all the time.

Because
people can't see Jesus, they take His Love and Presence in the Blessed
Sacrament for granted.
People are hesitant in making a commitment for a specific hour because
they let everything else come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Your
faith will make this commitment easy!
"Faith is confident assurance concerning what we hope for, and
conviction about things we do not see." (Hb. 11:11) Your faith
will help you realize this with conviction: The most important thing
that you will do this week is to spend an hour with Jesus in the Blessed
Sacrament. Think of the words of the Pope: "Jesus waits for
you in this Sacrament of Love." Your willingness to choose
an assigned hour is a precious expression of your faith in His Real
Presence and that He is welcomed, loved and adored by you.

Don't
be afraid to take a fixed hour for fear that there may be times that
you can't make it.

We will have a substitute system to take care of emergencies. Just think
of the words from Scripture: "You have nothing whatsoever to
fear from Him. Get up. He is calling you!" (Mk. 10:50)

When
you get to heaven, Jesus will spend all eternity thanking you and loving
you for your fidelity
in spending one specific hour with Him in the Blessed Sacrament each
week. This is why He says: "Blessed are they who do not see
and yet believe." (Jn. 20:29)