Pope John Paul II beatified Dina Belanger, a Canadian woman very devoted to the Blessed Sacrament. When she went to her adoration, Jesus showed her multitudes of souls on the edge of the precipice of hell. And after her holy hour, she would see these souls in the hands of God. Jesus made her understand that the value of a holy hour is so great that it brings multitudes of souls from the edge of hell to the gates of heaven.
Visiting Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is like approaching the warm sunlight on a winter's day, like drinking water on a hot summer afternoon, like contemplating a beautiful flower when we are sad. Jesus from the tabernacle rejoices us and fills us with his peace.
How much evangelizing power has the irradiating power of Jesus in the sacrament! How much power has the apostolate of adoration! How many elderly and sick people could dedicate themselves to this very effective apostolate, thus using much of their free time! For Charles de Foucauld, in the desert, the mere fact of having the tabernacle was already a way of evangelizing, because the powerful presence of Jesus in the Eucharist reached, in some way, all those around him. I also think now of the convents that have perpetual adoration and of so many old nuns who spend hours and hours before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament: what a powerful apostolate these convents and these people have, however old or useless they may seem to the eyes of the world!
Monsignor Josephine tells us: On one occasion, I was preaching in a parish, when three men appeared who had traveled several kilometers so that one of them could go to confession. The three were friends and had the same adoration schedule. The one who wanted to go to confession, after forty years of being away from God, did so, because, having begun his hour of adoration, he had felt the need to be reconciled with God. It was a fruit of adoration.
From Father Angel Peña's book on Eucharistic Adoration
