Eucharistic Adoration: Why?

So I wrote this at the request of a friend.  She liked it.  I decided to post it.

"And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20)

Jesus is fully present in the Eucharist—body, blood, soul, and divinity. When we visit the tabernacle in our parish church for a Holy Hour or attend Eucharistic Adoration, we are spending time with the Son of God and the son of Mary, sitting at the feet of the Rabbi from Nazareth just like the disciples from the first century. Jesus gave us the greatest gift imaginable when he instituted the Eucharist at the last supper (Matthew 26:17–29; Mark 14:12–25; Luke 22:7–38; I Corinthians 11:23–25)—he gave us himself for all time, to be with us as a source of strength and life, as a means of communion with God and the rest of the Church. When we receive him at Mass, we are joined to God like branches on a vine (John 15:1-5). We come to share in the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4) and become more fully sons and daughters of God.

When we spend time with him, we love him as our brother, our teacher, our savior, and our friend. Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen wrote, “[T]he only time Our Lord asked the Apostles for anything was the night he went into his agony…As often in the history of the Church since that time, evil was awake, but the disciples were asleep. That is why there came out of His anguished and lonely Heart the sigh: ‘Could you not watch one hour with me?’ Not for an hour of activity did He plead, but for an hour of companionship.” Jesus asks you to spend time with him, to keep him company in his long vigil in the tabernacles and on the altars of the world. Go to adoration and pray. Read Scripture. Listen in silence for a word from God. Love Jesus. He waits for you there, and for generations to come, until the end of the world.

Happy feast of all saints!