Important Info About Eucharistic Adoration

• 7.5 Billion People Graced - Over 7.5 Billion. Remember this number each time you might have any doubts whether your sacrifice of time in volunteering to cover a Holy Hour of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament was a productive hour.  Why is this number important? It is the number of people living in the world that you affected by your visit to Jesus. ---- (St. Sister Faustina) See article
  
  
• Souls On The Precipice Of Hell On Way To Heaven Instead - Your Holy Hour of adoration is so powerful that many souls in the world, that were going to Hell, instead are graced enough to be in the hands of God and on their way to Heaven.---- (Bl. Dina Belanger) See article
  
  
• Leads To Deeper Participation In The Mass - "The devotion which leads the faithful to visit the Blessed Sacrament draws them into an ever deeper participation of the Paschal Mystery ." ---- Eucharisticum Mysterium, post-Vatican II instruction on Eucharistic worship
  
  
• Partial Indulgence Or Plenary Indulgence - "A partial indulgence is granted for the faithful, who visit the Most Blessed Sacrament to adore it; a plenary indulgence (under the usual conditions) is granted if the visit lasts for at least one half an hour." ---- The Handbook of Indulgences
  
  
• Jesus Is There Expressly For You - "Do you realize that Jesus is there in the Blessed Sacrament expressly for you, for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart." ---- St. Therese of Lisieux
  
  
• Holy Hour Supreme Meritoriuos Act - "Here on earth it is impossible to perform a more meritorious act (outside of Mass) than visiting Jesus often in the Holy Eucharist."  ---- St. Teresa Of Avila
  
  
• Your Hour Retold For All Eternity "Every Holy Hour we make so pleases the Heart of Jesus that it will be recorded in Heaven and retold for all eternity." ---- St. Mother Teresa
  
  
• A Sharing In The Work Of Redemption - "A Holy Hour is not a devotion; it is a sharing in the work of redemption." ---- Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen
  
  
• A Difficult Hour Has Extra Blessings - "When your hour is particularly difficult, rejoice all the more; your love will be greater for its suffering more. It is a privileged hour that will count for two." ---- St. Peter Julian Eymard
  
  
• Night Hours Especially Blessed - "Those who, especially in the silent hours of the night, gather together in adoration with the Angels and render to the Lamb, who was immolated, the thanksgiving due to Him, draw abundantly for themselves and for all the Church waters from the fountains of the Savior." ---- Venerable Pope Pius XII
  
  
• Feeds Two Faculties Of The Spirit - "During our Holy Hour our souls are fed in two faculties of the spirit - the Mind and the Will. In the Mind we need light; in the Will we need strength." ---- Servant of God Fr. John Hardon
  
  
• You Grow In Love - "Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration." ---- St. Mother Teresa
  
  
• Revive The Breath Of The Holy Spirit In You - "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." ---- Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen
  
  
• Grow Into The Likeness Of Jesus - "The third reason I (kept) up my Holy Hour (was) to grow more and more into His likeness. As Paul puts it: 'We are transfigured into His likeness, from splendor to splendor'.  We become what we gaze upon. Looking into the sunset the face takes on a golden glow. Looking at the Eucharistic Lord for an Hour transforms the Heart in a mysterious way..." ---- Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen
  
  
• Increase In Knowledge Of God - "(My Holy Hour), too, became a magister and teacher, for although before we love anyone we must have a knowledge of that person, nevertheless after we know, it is love that increases knowledge. Theological insights are gained not only from the covers of a treatise, but from two knees on a prie-dieu before a tabernacle." ---- Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen
  
  
• We Become More Merciful - "We are to be icons of mercy, radiating love and mercy to others. There is no greater way to energize ourselves to this task than by spending time in the Presence of the Source of Love and Mercy, Our Lord in the Most Holy Eucharist." ---- St. Sister Faustina
  
  
• Estabishes Peace 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 bring about an everlasting peace on earth." ---- St. Mother Teresa
  
  
• Helps Convert America - "What will convert America and save the world? My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in Holy Hours of prayer." ---- St. Mother Teresa
  
  
• Increases Vocations - "I would also like to repeat my invitation to you to make adoration a habitual practice...Priestly, religious, and missionary vocations will stem from this meeting with Christ..."  ---- St. Pope John Paul II
  
  
• Renewal Of The Family - "...in the intimacy of the tabernacle, the values that must reign in homes will receive new strength to make the family a meeting place with God, a center that radiates faith, a school of Christian life..."  ---- St. Pope John Paul II
  
  
• Conversion Of Loved Ones - St. Monica would visit the Blessed Sacrament twice a day, outside of Mass, to pray for her very worldly son's conversion. They were very powerful prayers since today we know her son as St. Augustine.  ---- St. Monica
  
  
• Helps Stop Abortions - "If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended." ---- St. Mother Teresa
  
  
• Heals Us Within - "Let us also rediscover Eucharistic adoration, which continues the work of the Mass within us. This will do us much good, for it heals us within. Especially now, when our need is so great." ---- Pope Francis
  
  
• Consolation At The Hour Of Death  - "You may be sure that of all the moments of your life the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will give you more strength during life and more consolation at the hour of your death and during eternity."  ---- St. Alphonsus Ligouri
  
  
• Adoration Must Prevail - "(Eucharistic) adoration must prevail over all the other charitable works, for it is from love for Christ who died and rose and who is really present in the Eucharistic Sacrament, that Gospel charity flows which impels us to see all human beings as our brothers and sisters." ---- Pope Benedict XVI
  
  
• Adoration A Priority - "(Eucharistic) Adoration is not a luxury but a priority..." ---- Pope Benedict XVI
  
  
• We Must First Learn To Be In Adoration - "We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the sweet company of Jesus in adoration." ---- St. Pope John Paul II
  
  

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