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Second Sunday of Lent

3 March 2007

Eight Reasons For Coming to Forty Hours

  1. He is really there!
    I am the Living Bread come down from Heaven (Jn 6:35).
  2. Day and night Jesus dwells in the Blessed Sacrament because of His 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. Jesus asks you 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 grace within you and deepen your personal relationship 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. 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).
  7. 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).
  8. 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).

So what are you waiting for? The schedule for Forty Hours is in the bulletin. Sign up for an hour of prayer with our LORD and come to everything you can. You will never regret it.

Father Christopher