24 Reasons for Spending a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament

 

12 Reasons From The Teachings Of The Church For Wanting To Spend One Hour With Jesus In The Blessed Sacrament

1. You are greatly needed!
"The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic adoration." (Pope John Paul II, Dominicae Cenae)

2. This is a personal invitation to you from Jesus.
"Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love." (Pope John Paul II, Dominicae Canae)

3. Jesus is counting on you because the Eucharist is the center of life.
"Every member of the Church must be vigilant in seeing that the 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 him shall be given back ‘love for love’ and truly become the life of our souls." (Pope John Paul II, Redeemer of Man)

4. Your hour with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament will repair for evils of the world and bring about peace on earth.
"Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Jesus and ready to make reparation for the great evils of the world. Let your adoration never cease." (Pope John Paul II, Dominicai Cenae)

5. Day and night Jesus dwells in the Blessed Sacrament because you are the most important person in the world to him!
"Christ is reserved in our churches as the spiritual center of the heart of the community, the universal Church and all humanity, since within the veil of the species, Christ is contained, the invisible heart of the Church, the Redeemer of the world, the center of all hearts, by him all things are and of whom we exist." (Pope Paul IV, Mysterium Fidei)

6. Jesus wants you to do more than to 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 John Paul II, Redeemer of Man)

7. You grow spiritually with each moment you spend with Jesus!
"Our essential commitment in life is to preserve and advance constantly in Eucharistic life and Eucharistic piety and to grow spiritually in the climate of the Holy Eucharist." (Pope John Paul II, Redeemer of Man)

8. The best time you spend on earth is with Jesus, your Best Friend, in the Blessed Sacrament!
"How great is the value of conversation with Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, for there is nothing more consoling on earth, nothing more efficacious for advancing along the road of holiness!" (Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei)

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, 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. He restores morality, nourishes virtue, consoles the afflicted, strengthens the weak." (Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei)

10. If Jesus were actually visible in 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, that we many come to him in humility.
"The Blessed Sacrament is the ‘Living Heart’ of each of our churches and it is our very sweet duty to honor and adore the Blessed Host, which our eyes see, the Incarnate Word, whom they cannot see." (Pope Paul VI, Credo of the People of God)

11. With transforming mercy, Jesus makes our heart one with his.
"He proposes his own example to those who come to him, that all may learn to be like himself, gentle and humble of heart, and to seek not their own interest but those of God." (Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei)

12. 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 with him in the Blessed Sacrament.
"The divine Eucharist bestows upon the Christian people the incomparable dignity." (Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei)

12 Biblical Reasons For Wanting To Spend One Hour With Jesus In The Blessed Sacrament

1. He is really there!
"I myself am the living bread come down from heaven." (Jn 6:35)

2. Day and night Jesus dwells in the Blessed Sacrament because of his Infinite love for you!
"Behold I will be with you always even to the end of the world," because "I have loved you with an everlasting love, and constant is my affection for you." (Mt 28:20; Jer 31:3)

3. The specific way that Jesus asks you to love him in return is to spend one quiet hour with him 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)

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. 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 you may have life, and have it more abundantly." "I am the vine and you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him shall bear much fruit because without me, you can do nothing." (Jn 15:5)

6. Each hour you spend with Jesus will deepen his divine peace in your heart.
"Come to me all of you who are weary and find life burdensome and I will refresh you..." "Cast all of you anxieties upon the one who cares for you..." "My Peace is My Gift to you." (Mt 11:28; Pt 5:7; Jn 14:17)

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

8. 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 honor, glory and praise." (Rev. 5:12)

9. For peace in our country!
"When my people humble themselves and seek my presence... I will revive their land." (2Chr 7:14)

10. 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 Lord’s glory with unveiled faces, are being transformed from glory to glory into his very image." (Lk 18:14; 2Cor 3:18)

11. 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..." "Faith can move mountains..." " What is needed is trust... " "Behold I come to make all things new." (Jn 20:29; Mk 11:23; Mk 5:36; Rev 21:5)

12. Each moment you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament brings joy, pleasure, and delight to his Sacred Heart!
"My joy, my pleasure, my delight is to be with you." (Prov 8:31)

 

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October 6 - Saint Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus - 6 ta' Ottubru - SANTA MARIJA FRANĠISKA TAL-ĦAMES PJAGI

October 6 - Saint Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus

Patron Saint of expectant mothers; women seeking to have children

She was the first woman from Naples to have been declared a saint by the Catholic Church.

https://www.saintsfeastfamily.com/copy-of-st-faith-october-6-1

St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds' Story

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Mary Frances of the Five Wounds (Italian: Maria Francesca delle Cinque Piaghe, 25 March 1715 – 7 October 1791), was an Italian member of the Third Order of St. Francis, who is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church.

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She was born Anna Maria Gallo, the daughter of Francesco Gallo and Barbara Basinsin, in the Quartieri Spagnoli (Spanish Quarter) of Naples, a red-light district of the city, still known for its high crime. According to tradition, another saint, the Jesuit, Francis de Geronimo, predicted her future sanctity while she was still an infant. Her family was of the middle class, but her father, a weaver of gold lace, was a very violent man, who regularly abused his family physically, often severely. When Gallo was sixteen, her father attempted to force her into a marriage with a young man of means who was seeking her hand. She refused and asked to join the Franciscan Third Order, through which she could live out a religious life in the family home. The friars of Naples were part of the reform of Peter of Alcantara, and they and the tertiaries under their rule were known for the strictness of their lives. Through the intervention of a friar, Father Theophilus, permission to enter the Order was eventually granted by her father. Gallo was received into the Order on 8 September 1731 and began wearing the religious habit of the Order, which was an uncommon practice by that era. She also adopted the use of the religious name she took upon being received into the Order, out of her devotion to the Blessed Mother, Francis of Assisi and the Passion of Christ. She continued to live in the family home to serve God as a consecrated virgin, as was customary in those days. She took as her spiritual director, the Franciscan friar, John Joseph of the Cross, while her confessor was the Barnabite priest, Francis Xavier Bianchi, and she began to be known among her neighbors for her work of charity, helping the poor of the sector. She was a person of deep prayer, often spending long hours in meditation. In 1753 she joined with another Franciscan tertiary, known only as Maria Felice, and they moved into a small palace owned by a priest, Giovanni Pessiri, who became their spiritual director. The two women occupied the second floor, sleeping on the floor, and the priest the floor above. She is said to have received the wounds of the stigmata while living there and suffered patiently many physical afflictions and spiritual trials. She would wear gloves to cover the marks on her hands, while she did her work. She is also said to have had visions of Raphael the Archangel, who healed her of several afflictions.

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Gallo was buried in the Franciscan Church of Santa Lucia al Monte in Naples, which she attended during her life. This church also contains the tomb of John Joseph, now also declared a saint. Gallo was declared Venerable by Pope Pius VII, on 18 May 1803. She was beatified by Pope Gregory XVI on 12 November 1843. She was soon canonized by Pope Pius IX on 29 June 1867. Her feast day is celebrated on 6 October. She was the first woman from Naples to have been declared a saint by the Catholic Church. Devotion to Gallo has long continued to be strong in the neighborhood where she lived, and of which she is the patron saint. The residents credit her intercession with the little damage the sector endured during World War II, when over 100 bombs were dropped on it. Her home has been preserved as a chapel and museum. Pope Pius IX, who canonized Gallo, declared her to be a patroness of expectant mothers and of women having difficulty conceiving. She is also the patroness of the Gallo World Family Foundation, which was founded to promote the development of Judeo-Christian values in the betterment of the world by members of the Gallo family scattered worldwide. On 6 October 2001, her remains were transferred from the Church of Santa Lucia to the house where she had spent the last half of her life. It is now the Shrine of St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds. It is still a common practice for expectant mothers to go there to be blessed with her relic. Many votive offerings from mothers who credit her with their successful deliveries are displayed in the sanctuary. In Scotland, Margaret Sinclair took the religious name Sister Mary Francis of the Five Wounds during her short-lived vocation in London. Her major shrine in St Patrick's Church, Edinburgh has been given status by both Pope Paul VI declaration, and Pope John Paul II description of The Blessed Margaret as being "one of God’s little ones who, through her very simplicity, was touched by God with the strength of real holiness of life."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Frances_of_the_Five_Wounds

​https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4480

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MYSTICS OF THE CHURCH

Saint Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus (Anna-Maria Gallo, 1715-1791).

https://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2018/06/st-mary-frances-of-five-wounds-of-jesus.html

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6 ta’ Ottubru

SANTA MARIJA FRANĠISKA TAL-ĦAMES PJAGI

(1734-1791)

Verġni tat-Tielet Ordni

Tifkira

Marija Franġiska twieldet Napli fl-1734 u ssieħbet fit-Tietet Ordni ta’ San Franġisk. Saret magħrufa għat-trażżin ta’ ġisimha bis-sawm, b’sahriet ta’ talb u tgħakkis ieħor. F’ħajjitha kienet tfarraġ il-morda u tieħu ħsieb il-foqra b’imħabba liema bħalha. Kellha qima kbira lejn il-Verġni Omm Alla, u bħalha tgħallmet tgħix fl-umiltà. Mietet fis-6 ta’ Ottubru 1791.

Mill-MISSAL FRANĠISKAN

Franġiskani Konventwali

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INSPIRATIONAL ALBUM - The King's Harpists: The King is Coming - Live From Jerusalem

APOKALISSI 15:1-4

1 Imbagħad fis-sema rajt sinjal ieħor, kbir u tal-għaġeb: seba’ anġli li kellhom seba’ kastigi, dawk tal-aħħar, li bihom kellha tintemm il-korla ta’ Alla.

2 U rajt bħal baħar tal-ħġieġ imħallat bin-nar, u weqfin fuq il-baħar tal-ħġieġ rajt lil dawk li kienu ħarġu rebbieħa fuq il-Bhima u fuq xbihitha u n-numru ta’ isimha; b’ċetri ta’ Alla f’idejhom, 3 huma jgħannu l-kantiku ta’ Mosè l-qaddej ta’ Alla u l-kantiku tal-Ħaruf, u jgħidu:

“Kbar u tal-għaġeb l-għemejjel tiegħek,

Mulej, Alla li tista’ kollox;

ġusti u veri t-triqat tiegħek,

Sultan tal-ġnus.

4 Min, Mulej, ma jibżax minnek

u ma jsebbaħx lil ismek?

Għax int waħdek qaddis;

il-ġnus kollha jiġu

u jinxteħtu quddiemek,

għax il-ġudizzji tiegħek intwerew.”

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REVELATION: 15:1-4

1 Then I saw another portent in heaven, great and amazing: seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is ended.

2 And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands. 3 And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb:

“Great and amazing are your deeds,
Lord God the Almighty!
Just and true are your ways,
King of the nations!

4 Lord, who will not fear
and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
and worship before you,
for your judgments have been revealed.”

From playlist, in 3rd video:  The King's Harpists: The Song of Moses - Live From Jerusalem!

Reciting Revelation 15:1-4 

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Playlist of 10 videos:

- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-4vkmfx0rYZEGwiAkDxzqyyL_bbQkya_ -

The King Is Coming

by The King's Harpists

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JULY 2 - Festa titulari tal-Viżitazzjoni, l-Għarb, Għawdex. Omelija mill-Isqof Anton Teuma 2 ta' Lulju, 2023

“Il-Festa tal-lum trid turina kemm għandna bżonn tassew il-preżenza ta’ Ġesù “fin-nofs” tar-relazzjonijiet ta’ bejnietna! Jekk aħna nsibuha bi tqila biex nimxu flimkien fl-istess Knisja u familja tagħna, kemm aktar se nsibuha bi tqila biex nagħmlu hekk ma’ min hu differenti minna. Għalhekk għandna bżonn li Ġesù jkun preżenti kif kien fil-ġuf ta’ Marija meta marret tiltaqa’ ma’ Eliżabetta.”

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L-Evanġelju
Lq 1:39-56 

Qari mill-Evanġelju skont San Luqa 

[Lq:1:39] F'dawk il-ġranet Marija qamet u marret tħaffef lejn il-għoljiet, f'belt tal-Lhudija. [Lq:1:40] Daħlet għand Żakkarija u sellmet lil Eliżabetta. [Lq:1:41] Malli Eliżabetta semgħet 'il Marija ssellmilha, it-tarbija qabżet fi ħdanha u Eliżabetta mtliet bl-Ispirtu s-Santu; [Lq:1:42] u nfexxet f'għajta kbira u qalet: "Imbierka inti fost in-nisa, u mbierek il-frott tal-ġuf tiegħek! [Lq:1:43] U minn fejn ġieni dan li omm Sidi tiġi għandi? [Lq:1:44] Għax ara, malli smajt f’widnejja leħen it-tislima tiegħek, it-tarbija qabżet u tqanqlet bil-ferħ fi ħdani. [Lq:1:45] Iva, hienja dik li emmnet li jseħħ kulma ntqalilha min-naha tal-Mulej". [Lq:1:46] Imbagħad qalet Marija: "Ruħi tfaħħar il-kobor tal-Mulej, [Lq:1:47] u l-ispirtu tiegħi jifraħ f'Alla s-Salvatur tiegħi, [Lq:1:48] għax hu xeħet għajnejh fuq iċ-ċokon tal-qaddejja tiegħu. Iva, minn issa 'l quddiem kull nisel jibda jsejjaħli hienja, [Lq:1:49] għax is-Setgħani għamel miegħi ħwejjeġ kbar; qaddis hu l-isem tiegħu. [Lq:1:50] Il-ħniena tiegħu tinfirex f'kull żmien fuq dawk li jibżgħu minnu. [Lq:1:51] Hu wera l-qawwa ta' driegħu, xerred 'il dawk li huma mkabbra f'qalbhom. [Lq:1:52] Niżżel is-setgħana minn fuq it-tron tagħhom, u għolla ċ-ċkejknin. [Lq:1:53] Mela b'kull ġid 'il min hu bil-ġuħ, u l-għonja bagħathom 'il barra b'xejn. [Lq:1:54] Ħa ħsieb Israel qaddej tiegħu, għax ftakar fil-ħniena tiegħu, [Lq:1:55] bħalma wiegħed 'il missirijietna - b'riżq Abraham u nislu għal dejjem". [Lq:1:56] Marija baqgħet ma' Eliżabetta għal xi tliet xhur u mbagħad reġgħet lura lejn darha. 

Il-Kelma tal-Mulej
R/. Tifħir lilek Kristu.

L-omelija sħiħa tal-Isqof Anton Teuma fil-Festa titulari tal-Viżitazzjoni, l-Għarb, ilbieraħ il-Ħadd 2 ta' Lulju 2023

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