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PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

ONE LORD - ONE BODY - ONE PEOPLE

Rev. Fr. Vincent Martin Lucia

Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration (PEA) is permanent exposition and adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in a chapel that remains open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We need people who will make a commitment of one hour each week on a regular and continuing basis so that a schedule can be made in which every hour of the week is covered by at least one person. The following 12 BIBLICAL REASONS and 12 CHURCH TEACHINGS will help us to understand the value, the importance and the need for making this commitment.

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12 BIBLICAL REASONS
POINTS TO REMEMBER
12 CHURCH TEACHINGS
IMPORTANCE OF A SPECIFIC HOUR

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12 BIBLICAL REASONS ^[TOP]

HE IS REALLY THERE!"I Myself Am the living Bread come down from heaven." (Jn. 6:51)
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)
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)
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)
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)
FOR PEACE IN OUR LAND! "If My people humble themselves and seek My Presence, I will revive their land." (2 Ch. 7:14)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 ^[TOP]

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 ^[TOP]

You are greatly needed! "The Church and the world have great need for Eucharistic adoration." (Art. 3) *
This is a personal invitation from Jesus to you! "Jesus waits for you in this Sacrament of Love." (Art. 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) * *
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) * * *
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)
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)
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) * *
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) * * *
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)***
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) * * *
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) * * *
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 ^[TOP]

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)

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