"To converse with
You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the
Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find
You there, and converse with You face to face."
- St. Teresa de Jesús
My parish is so incredibly blessed to have an Adoration
chapel that is open 24/7 to anyone seeking Jesus. It is literally one of the
greatest thing ever! The fact that anyone is able to go and see God Himself,
the Lord Almighty, our Heavenly Bridegroom Who waits for us every day, at any
time they want is absolutely amazing. In fact, it's necessary!
In any human relationship, especially romantic ones, one
always feels the need to spend time with their beloved, and that need increases
as the two become closer by spending that time with each other. It's never
one-sided,but rather both people have decided to commit themselves to the good
of the other other, and such love can definitely be done in the presence of the
beloved. It is the exact same thing, except in Adoration the Beloved is the
Lord Jesus Christ Himself, the Son of God, the Second Person of the Holy
Trinity; Love Himself!
Because of this, Adoration isn't just spending time with
Christ our Bridegroom, but is rather intended to be a total self-giving to Him
in His presence, a complete surrendering of ourselves to our Beloved God whose
Body we see whenever we go. He has given Himself up for us in total sacrifice
and love, and the fact that we can go see Him so easily should spark in us a
passionate sense of wonder and a painful desire to be with Him and talk
directly to Him in the same room!
We all have a desire to speak with our Bridegroom, to simply
talk and be with our King of glory, and Adoration is where we can. Obviously
the Sacred Mass is where we are most able to, as we directly receive Him into
us, but Adoration is still directly being with Him, basking in His glory and
conversing with Him in the silence. Just like in any human relationships, we
need to spend time with our Beloved to fall more and more deeply in love with
Him, and after we do we're so much more able to go out and do His will! In
fact, the time we spend with Him is directly proportional to the ability to
love Him by doing His will, and so Adoration is not only desired, but necessary
to be completely given to our Lord Jesus Christ, our Bridegroom Who calls us
every day to spend more time with Him.
Because He loves us, and He wants to spend every second of
every day with us. Even when we can't go to Adoration, we should offer up our
works, thoughts, anything we say, everything we do, to our Beloved, and ask Him
constantly to open us by everything we do to His love, and to fall more in love
with Him, our King of Kings.
All you holy men and women, and all you angelic choirs,
please pray for us, that we may come to Adoration in complete surrender to our
Lord Jesus Christ, our King and Bridegroom of glory!
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