Rev. John Grigus, OFM Conv.
Spiritual Director
The Pope John Paul II Eucharistic Adoration Association
Marytown, St. Maximilian Kolbe Shrine
1600 West Park Avenue
Libertyville, IL 60048-2593

Dear Father John,

           It gives me great pleasure to endorse the Pope John Paul II Eucharistic Adoration
Association of the Archdiocese of Chicago and to add to this endorsement my prayers
that your work may flourish.

           The Lord has given us himself as Eucharist in the celebration of the Mass and in
the reservation of the Sacrament. The same Lord makes himself present and available in
the action of the Mass and in the reserved Eucharistic species, and when we come into
the presence of the Lord, our first response should be that of adoration.

The marvelous spiritual effects of spending time with the Lord, present in the
Most Blessed Sacrament, will deepen the life of sanctity in the Archdiocese, make us
more sensitive to both personal and social sins, and give us fervor for the new
evangelization. Where Eucharistic adoration is well established, vocations to ordained
priesthood and deaconate and to communities of consecrated life increase, for God is
generous. What he expects is that we give of our time and that we ask for the grace that
he yearns to give us.

           I thank you for your own good work as the Spiritual Director of the Association,
even as I offer my thanks once again to its officers and members. All of you are in my
prayers; please keep me in yours.

Sincerely yours in Christ, Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. Archbishop of Chicago