Jesus Christ is truly present to you here before the Blessed Sacrament. Can you feel His physical presence in this place of adoration? If not, open your heart. Nothing opens you up to grace more than a prayer from the heart. A truly humble prayer of contrition, obedience, and love in front of the Blessed Sacrament will give you the faith to believe Jesus Christ is truly present. You will feel His tangible love when you open yourself up to grace.
What is the Purpose of Prayer?
God has made you for Himself. Prayer is an act of love toward God, who is perfect love. When you enter into Eucharistic adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, you seek to love God as you are also already loved by Him. Therefore, when you come to the adoration chapel and kneel, know that Jesus Christ is truly present in the Holy Eucharist.
You have come to Him, to His sacred chapel, where He awaits the souls who wish to love Him in secret, to console His Sacred Heart.
Jesus Christ is Truly Present; Feel It
Jesus Christ is truly present to You in the adoration chapel. Come into His presence before the Blessed Sacrament and feel His tangible love. This is a grace that He gives to His followers, a beautiful gift of love that one can tangibly feel when they come into His presence and kneel before Him in the Blessed Sacrament of His love. It is a beautiful grace.
What does tangible love feel like?
Many define it as a physical presence of the divine that can be felt. It can sometimes be described as a knowing feeling, one that is accompanied by a warm feeling of a peaceful divine presence, a physical manifestation of love that often reigns down on top of the head. It can create a feeling of lightheadedness and a knowledge that one is in a sacred place in the presence of God, and loved immensely. It brings with it a peace that passes all human knowledge and understanding. When Jesus Christ is truly present and you can feel him manifesting His divine presence in the Blessed Sacrament you have an otherworldly feeling of being loved by the creator. It gives one the grace to want to love in return that which one has been given in love before His Eucharistic presence.
Prayer can be many things
There are many ways to pray. The most efficacious prayer of all is the Mass. When we have true worship for God we can return His tangible love for tangible love of our own. It is a sacrifice of your time, your convenience, your desires. It is a commitment in relationship to Him whereas you say, “I know Jesus Christ is truly present in the Blessed Sacrament, and I desire to be with Him in His presence and commit myself to His holy will. Totus Tuus.”
So begin this prayer below by centering your heart. Contemplate the words above. Ask yourself, “Am I willing to love Jesus in a sacrificial and tangible way?” Adore Jesus in His physical Presence and begin feeling His tangible love. Answer the call to be His hidden adorer. We worship a hidden God who reveals Himself to the humble. He works miracles through the least likely souls. He is present in the world in every cell and atom, yet Jesus Christ gives Himself to His beloved in the Holy Eucharist because it is by eating His flesh and blood we are saved (John 6: 26-71).
Sacrificial Love and a Hidden Prayer Life
The life of the hidden lover of Jesus Christ is a life of sacrificial love. It is a life of hidden prayer for love of Christ. It is a life of being in the Upper Room, locked away with the Holy Spirit. It is a love of pure joy in knowing and loving Jesus Christ, who is truly present and offering His love in a very tangible way that can be felt physically.
I would that every soul in the universe could know Him and love Him. I wish that all human beings could love Him as He rightly deserves and as I so often do not in my imperfection. I pray that the soul who has abandoned Him in the Blessed Sacrament for the desires of the world would one day realize the grave error in leaving the one tangible love in his life that provides a truly abundant life.
Let us pray together a prayer of faith in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist:
a Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament
Jesus Christ is Truly Present Here
Oh, Lord Jesus,
I believe that You are as truly present here in the Holy Eucharist as when You walked in Galilee where You ministered to the sick, the lame and the blind. Your ears of mercy were ever open to listen to the cries of the sorrowing and wounded, and Your lips ever ready to speak words of sympathy, comfort and encouragement to those who trusted in Your power to help them.
As a sinner, conscious of Your mercy, I come before You now to spend some moments in communion ‘could you not watch one hour with me?’, and too long have I neglected to respond to You.
Now, at last I come to You, Jesus, my patient and faithful Savior, to whom I can open my heart as someone who fully understands me.
Oh, Jesus, you know me better than I know myself. You perceive the innermost secrets of my heart and see there my longing to be totally Yours. Deep down within me I want to love You but at the same time I am aware of the promptings of my sinful nature drawing me away from You, and the unselfish service which I should render to You. Jesus, I have asked and now ask You again to grace me with a total love for You in spite of my weaker self. Fill each day of my life with acts of love for You and make me realize what Your love really means. Enlighten my understanding that I may clearly see that to love You means wealth beyond measure, and to serve You, reward without limit. Sweet Heart of Jesus, I implore that I may love You daily more and more.
In these privileged silent moments, to be here before You Lord, is all that matters. To shut the eyes of my body; to shut the eyes of my soul and to be still and silent; to expose my soul before You who are here exposed to me; to be here before You, the Eternal Presence through means of prayer. Empty me of all ideas, of all images. In the darkness here I am, simply to meet You without obstacles, in the silence of faith, before You, my Lord and Redeemer.
AMEN.
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Jesus Christ is Truly Present Here
A Prayer from the Heart: Jesus Christ is Truly Present Here before the Blessed Sacrament
Loving Jesus Christ in a Tangible Way
“O Jesus! on this day, you have fulfilled all my desires. From now on, near the Eucharist, I shall be able To sacrifice myself in silence, to wait for Heaven in peace. Keeping myself open to the rays of the Divine Host, In this furnace of love, I shall be consumed, And like a seraphim, Lord, I shall love You.” St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus
“The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time that you will spend 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 help bring about an everlasting peace on earth.” Saint Teresa of Calcutta
“Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, ‘Ask, and you shall receive,’ but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.” St. Alphonsus Liguori
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