Here are ten reasons.

1. It is time spent in the presence of Our Lord Himself. If faith is alive,  no further reason is needed….

2. In our busy lives, it takes considerable time to shake off the “noonday devils,” the worldly cares, that cling to our souls like dust….

3. Our Lord asked for it. “Had you no strength, then, to watch with me even for an hour?”….

4. The Holy Hour keeps a balance between the spiritual and the practical….

5. The Holy Hour will make us practice what we preach….

6. The Holy Hour helps us make reparation for the sins of the world and for our own sins. When the Sacred Heart appeared to St. Margaret Mary, it was His Heart, and not His head, that was crowned with thorns. It was Love that was hurt. Black Masses, sacrilegious communions, scandals, militant atheism—who will make up for them?….

7. It reduces our liability to temptation and weakness. Presenting ourselves before Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament is like putting a tubercular patient in good air and sunlight. The virus of our sins cannot long exist in the face of the Light of the world….

8. The Holy Hour is a personal prayer….

9. Meditation keeps us from seeking an external escape from our worries and miseries….

10. Finally, the Holy Hour is necessary for the Church…. To abide with Christ is spiritual fellowship, as He insisted on the solemn and sacred night of the Last Supper, the moment He chose to give us the Eucharist: “You have only to live on in me, and I will live on in you” (John 15:4). He wants us in His dwelling: “That you, too, may be where I am” (John 14:3).