Archbishop Fulton Sheen and the Daily Holy Hour

Archbishop Fulton Sheen was arguably the first televangelist. He had a nationally televised show Life is Worth Living that reached an estimated 30 million viewers (Catholic and non-Catholic alike).

Archbishop Sheen gave an excellent talk about the need for priests, religious, and laity to make one daily, continuous hour in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. He argues that no priest who makes a daily holy hour has ever left the church and he calls all to adore the Blessed Sacrament daily to truly change the face of the world and renew the church.

The talk is available in the right hand column of Adoration.com.

In our world today, devotion to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament has largely fallen by the wayside and many poorly catechized Catholics likely do not know of the practice. And when some do go to adoration, in the words of Archbishop Sheen all we do is "talk, talk, talk!"

But "the poison of sin is acting in all of us" and we must do our best to honor the Lord's request "Could you not watch one hour with Me?" (Matthew 26:40). It can be a struggle to find time in our busy lives for prayer, especially an entire hour, but we have to remember that we shouldn't be making time for Jesus but building our lives around him. I plan to make a daily holy hour as often as I can with a minimum of 3 times per week until I can build up to daily adoration. What will you do?