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HOLY HOUR THREE (all

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O Salutaris Hostia, Quae caeli pandis ostium. Bella premunt hostilia, Da robur fer auxilium. Uni trinoque Domino Sit sempiterna gloria: Qui vitam sine termino Nobis donet in patria. Amen V. O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, R. All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment thine. Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be (3x) All seated. Introduction True devotion to the Sacred Heart is not devotion to either a statue or picture, but, rather, devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. The Blessed Sacrament is the Sacred Heart of Jesus living and dwelling in our midst and calling out each of us to come to Him. The message of the Sacred Heart is that the Holy Eucharist is not a thing, but a person, the person of our loving savior, whose divine heart is on fire with a deep, personal love for each of us in the Blessed Sacrament. One day a nun by the name of Sister Faustina Kowalska saw Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. When Jesus appeared to Sister Faustina, there were pink and white rays of divine light emanating from his Sacred Heart and radiating the entire chapel. Whenever someone came into the chapel for a visit, these divine rays would go forth from Jesus and encircle the whole world. Jesus explained that each person coming before Him in the Blessed Sacrament represented all humanity and that every man, woman, and child on the face of the earth experience a new effect of his goodness, grace, love and mercy for each holy hour made in his divine presence. This is how much Jesus appreciates your holy hour! Period for Personal Adoration and Worship. All Stand. A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. John (John6:35,54-58)

Then Jesus said to them:”I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall not thirst. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so also whoever eats me, the same shall live because of me.” The Gospel of the Lord. We sit down for Meditation. If only we know how much God loves us in the Blessed Sacrament, we would die of happiness, for here He says to each of us: “I have loved you with an everlasting love and constant is my affection for you.”(Jer.30.3) “My delight is to dwell with you.” And so, “God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten son,”(Jn3.16) “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,”(Jn1.14). Jesus becoming one of us and choosing the name ‘Emmanuel’, a name which means ‘God with us’, because as much as we want to be with one another, infinitely more so does Jesus want and desire to be close to us, which helps us to understand why He did what He did on Holy Thursday night, the night before He died, when His heart could not bear to be separated from us. St. John tells us that Jesus showed us ‘the depth of His love’ by instituting the Holy Eucharist, that He may come into our hearts in Holy Communion and dwell with us forever in the most Blessed Sacrament, the continuation of His Incarnation on earth, where the same Jesus who was born 2000 years ago as a little babe in Bethlehem, who died on the cross for our sins, and who rose again on Easter Sunday, is truly, really, bodily, and personally present to us in this most Blessed Sacrament, as absolute proof of His everlasting love and constant affection for each of us, because the more you love someone the more you want to be with the person whom you love. Jesus loves us so much that He never wants to leave us. He stays with us , dwells with us, lives with us, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day in the Blessed Sacrament, “the new and everlasting covenant”, in fulfilment of His promise: “know that I am with you always, even to the end of the world” (Mt.28.20) 10-Minute Silence for Personal Reflection and Prayer

All kneel for our Communal Prayer (together) Jesus, I believe that you are the Son of God, personally present in the Holy Eucharist, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. Nourish my faith, Jesus, with that mature faith that has power to conquer the world. You describe your heart as gentle and humble where souls find rest and refreshment in your grace-filled love for your yoke is easy, and your burden light because you strengthen the weak with your very own power, calling out to all who are weary: “Come to me... I will refresh you”. By that holy love which inflames your Eucharistic Heart, help me, Jesus, to keep all the commandments, for to believe in you is to be faithful to all your teachings. To your perfect obedience to the Father’s will, Jesus, I unite myself, that I may conquer all self-love and self-will. To your close union with the Heavenly Father, Jesus, I unite myself. Amen. We all stand to praise Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament with a song. Oh Sacred Heart, Oh love divine Do keep us near to thee and may our hearts be like to thine that we may always be. //REF: Heart of Jesus hear Oh heart of love divine Listen to our prayer make us always thine.// Oh temple pure, Oh house of gold Our heaven here below What sweet divine How wealth untold From thee to overflow. (REF.) Be seated for a Period of Silence Exposing ourselves the Divine Light emanating from the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. All Stand.

A Reading from the First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (1Cor11.23-29). For the tradition I received from the Lord and also handed on to you is that on the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread, and after he had given thanks, he broke it, and he said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me. And in the same way, with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial of me.” Whenever you eat this bread, then, and drink this cup, you are proclaiming the Lord’s death until he comes. Therefore anyone who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily is answerable for the body and blood of the Lord. Everyone is to examine himself and only then eat of the bread or drink from the cup; because a person who eats and drinks without recognizing the body is eating and drinking his own condemnation. The Word of the Lord. We sit down for Meditation. Reparation, or propitiation must follow thanksgiving. Consider the ingratitude and indifference of most men and women toward the Eucharistic Savior. So many men and women forget Jesus. Is He no longer lovable? Has He stopped to love them? They no longer want to love Him because he is too loving; they do away with the thought of His Eucharistic presence, and even the very remembrance of Him in the Blessed Sacrament annoys them; and all that because He has made Himself too little, too humble, too much like nothingness. There are some who, unable to ignore Him, do not hesitate to insult, abuse, and deny such a good Father and kind Master so as to take revenge on His excessive love. In order not to see this Sun of love, they close their eyes. Among these ungrateful people are even some nuns and priests. This is your mission, O adorers: to weep spiritually at the feet of Jesus because He is so despised by His own, crucified with so many hearts, and abandoned in so many places; to console the Heart of this tender Father whom the devil, his enemy, is trying to rob of his children. Our mission is to console Him, and to beg forgiveness for ourselves and for all humankind.

10-Minute Silence for Personal Reflection, Adoration and Prayer All kneel for Communal Prayer (together) Sacred Heart of Jesus, we place our trust in you. Jesus when on the eve of your passion you were praying in the garden, the sight of all the sins of the world and the ingratitude of men and women who would turn away from you, so tortured your heart that you fell in agony. So great were the sufferings of your Heart that you began to sweat blood. You begged your apostles to watch with you and keep you company in your prayer, but they failed to do so, and you had to suffer your agony alone. Behold now, Jesus, we come to you and we remain with you; we keep you company in your agony and tell you of our love. Invocations. Response: WE WILL CONSOLE YOU, O LORD For your agony in the garden... (Response) For your mortal sorrow... For the anguish of your Heart... For your grief at being abandoned by all... For the jeers and mockeries of your enemies... For the failure of your friends... For all the sufferings of your passion... For the forgetfulness and ingratitude of men and women... For all blasphemies uttered against you... For the way you are deserted in your Holy Tabernacle... For the irreverence shown towards your sacred presence... For the indifference shown towards your sacrament of love... For the hatred of your enemies... For the coldness of the greater part of your children... For the infidelity of those who call themselves your friends... For our own unfaithfulness and ingratitude... For the incomprehensible hardness of our hearts... For our long delay in loving you... For our tepidity in your holy service... For your bitter sadness at the loss of souls... For your long waiting at the door of our hearts...

(together) Jesus, Divine Savior, grant us the grace to comfort your heart broken by our ingratitude. Grant us to do this by a more sincere love for you, a greater generosity in your service, a greater faithfulness in carrying out your great commandment, the commandment of loving God with our whole heart, our whole mind, our whole soul, and with all our strength and the commandment of loving our neighbour as you love him, you who live and reign forever and ever. Amen. Be seated for a period of Personal Prayer of Thanksgiving. All stand for our Communal Thanksgiving Prayer (together) It is good to give thanks to the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. It is good to give thanks to the Lord, To make music to Your name, O most High, To proclaim your love in the morning And your truth in the watches of the night, On a ten-stringed lyre and lute, With the murmuring sound of the harp. It is good to give thanks to the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Your deeds, O Lord, have made me glad; For the work of Your hands I shout with joy. O Lord, how great are your works How deep are your designs The foolish man cannot know this. It is good to give thanks to the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Though the wicked spring up like grass And all who do evil thrive: They are doomed to be eternally destroyed. But you, Lord, are eternally on high. See how your enemies perish; All doers of evil are scattered. It is good to give thanks to the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. You anoint me with the purest oil. My eyes looked in triumph on my foes; My ears heard gladly of their fall. The just will flourish like the palm-tree And grow like a Lebanon cedar.

It is good to give thanks to the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Planted in the House of the Lord They will flourish in the courts of the Lord, Still bearing fruit when they are old, Still full of sap, still green, To proclaim that the Lord is just; In Him, my rock, there is no wrong. It is good to give thanks to the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Tantum Ergo Sacramentum Veneremur cernui; et antiquum documentum novo cedat ritui; praestet fides supplementum sensuum defectui. V. R.

Genetori, Genitoque Laus et jubitatio; salus, honor, virtus quoque sit et benedictio: procedenti ab utroque compar sit laudatio. Amen.

Panem de coelo praestitisti eis. Omne delectamentum in se habentem.

Oremus. Deus, qui nobis sub sacramento mirabili, passionis tuae memoriam reliquisti: tribue, quaesumus, ita nos corporis et sanguinis tui sacra mysteria venerari, ut redemptionis tuae fructum in nobis iugiter sentiamus. Qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. Amen. Divine Praises Blessed be God. Blessed be His Holy Name. Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man. Blessed be the name of Jesus. Blessed be his most Sacred Heart. Blessed be his most Precious Blood. Blessed be Jesus in the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete. Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy. Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception. Blessed be her Glorious Assumption. Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother. Blessed be Saint Joseph, chaste spouse of Mary. Blessed be God in his angels and in his saints.

O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, All praise and all thanksgiving Be every moment Thine, Be every moment Thine.