If you have a really good friend, or if you are married, then you know what it takes to be in a relationship with someone. Two of the most important things you can do to deepen your friendship is to spend time together, and to talk with each other frequently.

The best friend and the love of our souls is Jesus Christ. Yet many of us suffer from a feeling that we don't really know who Jesus is, or we don't feel like we have a personal relationship with Him. Jesus is more like a figure from a history book to us, or some mysterious God-man who we know we have obligations to, yet we don't really feel anything in our hearts towards Him.

Adoration: The Answer to Deepening our Relationship With Christ

The solution to this personal struggle is to deepen your relationship with Jesus. Just as you would with any human friend or your spouse, you have to make a decided effort to get to know Him better. You have to spend time with Him, and speak with Him often. In other words, you need to spend time in prayer.

Eucharistic Adoration is the best way we have on this earth to spend a long time in quiet conversation with Jesus. You'll recall that just before Jesus physically left the apostles and ascended to the Father, he reassured them, "And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age." (Matthew 28:20) This statement is fulfilled in the reality of Jesus' Real Presence in the Eucharist, in the hands of the priest at Mass each day, reserved in the tabernacles in the heart of our churches, and right before our very eyes in Eucharistic Adoration.

My name is Gary and I am a seminarian with the Missionaries of the Most Holy Eucharist in Sanary.  Originally from Dublin, I am the youngest of six in an Irish Catholic family.  My spiritual journey started at a young age since my mother often brought me to Lourdes on pilgrimage.  These experiences had a very profound effect on me which gave rise to a strong devotion to the Holy Mass and the Holy Rosary.  Indeed, as a child I often read through the Mass in the privacy of my own room.  Through Mary I felt the closeness of Jesus in my life and I promised to do whatever they wanted from me.  I’ve learned by experience that they never forget when you make a promise to them. 
As I got older, though I kept my Devotion to the Holy Mass and the Rosary, I wanted to be in control of my life and I qualified as an accountant and hoped to get married and have a devoted family.  But God had a different plan.
In my first Accountancy job, I was blessed to have a Church right beside work.  There was Holy Mass there every day, in the morning and the evening.  But, on top of that, the Most Holy Sacrament was exposed all day.  It was during this time that I started to make regular visits to Jesus.