What is Eucharistic Adoration?
Eucharistic Adoration is an expression of our love for Jesus, who loves us so much that He never wants to leave us and so stays with us day and night in the Blessed Sacrament. For He says: Behold I am with you always, because I have loved you with an everlasting love. And constant is my affection for you, (Mt 28: 20; Jer 31:3). Pope John Paul II in his first encyclical letter, Redemptor Hominis, says that Eucharistic adoration is the most fundamental duty in the life of the Christian and that liturgical celebration of the Eucharist and private worship of the Eucharist complement each other. He states: Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharist adoration in order that our love may be complete. What is Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration? Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration is simply our response to Jesus love for us, whereby each of us is willing to spend a quiet holy hour of prayer in His Eucharistic Presence once a week on a regular basis tha
” and “Isn’t Eucharistic Adoration old-fashioned?” ASCC also provides guidelines for how to start a Eucharistic Adoration program at your school. The ASCC EAC website has several useful links as well, including Pope John Paul II’s recent encyclical about the Eucharist, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church of the Eucharist) and many quotations from various saints, theologians, and other holy people. The ASCC also has many student contacts at Catholic colleges around the country. We provide a listserve so that those students can contact each other when they need advice, suggestions, or support. Goal All of the resources that the ASCC EAC provides are intended ultimately to further the love of God here on earth. The effect of our resources, Eucharistic Adoration, is the fire that lights the hearts of the faithful. Mother Teresa said, “We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, ‘Where do the sisters get the joy and energy to do what they
Catholics believe that during the Mass which we attend each week (for some of us daily), the priest (during the consecration) speaks these words as he holds the communion host, “…He took bread and gave you thanks. He broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said: Take this all of you, and eat it: this is my body which will be given up for you”. When the priest says “this my body”, it is at that instant when, through the miracle of transubstantiation, the bread and wine which we offer as the bloodless sacrifice to our Lord truly become the Body, Blood , Soul and Divinity of Jesus. It is His true Presence in the form of bread and wine. It is Christ. Perpetual Adoration is when the priest takes a consecrated host, such as the one described above, and places it in a monstrance. (monstrance comes from the Latin “monstrare” to show, to expose to view.) The monstrance is then placed in front of the tabernackle (an ornate box which holds the monstrance and any consecrated hosts) or on
