Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

All parishioners are welcome to attend Eucharistic Adoration every Tuesday through Friday from 9:00 AM until 9:00 PM in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel located inside the Church office (Rectory). This setting provides time for quiet prayer and meditation.   Come and spend time with Jesus truly present in the Holy Eucharist and allow Him to transform your life.

Eucharistic Adoration is the act of worshiping God as He is present in the consecrated Eucharist. This Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament in a monstrance provides wonderful opportunities for developing our prayer life with Christ.

All Catholics are encouraged to spend time with Christ in Adoration: to give thanks and praise, to pray for special intentions, to lay our burdens at His feet, to sit quietly and just rest in His presence.

	Contemplation [of the Blessed Sacrament in Adoration] prolongs Communion and enables one to meet Christ, true God and true man, in a lasting way, to let oneself be seen by him and to experience his presence. When we contemplate him present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar, Christ draws near to us and becomes more intimate to us than we are to ourselves. He grants us a share in his divine life in a transforming union and, in the Spirit, He gives us access to the Father, as He himself said to Philip: “He who has seen me has seen the Father” (Jn. 14:9). … Remaining in silence before the Blessed Sacrament, it is Christ totally and really present whom we discover, whom we adore and with whom we are in contact. –Pope John Paul II

We invite everyone to come to Christ in the Eucharist.  He is truly present and can bring much peace into your life.

 "Could you not keep watch for one hour?" Mark 14:37

		We encourage all who have committed to adoration of the Eucharist to be faithful to their hour of adoration.    To sign up for a holy hour, call the Rectory Office or email Darlene Weber.  If you are unable to commit to a certain hour at this time, please come any time and stay for as long as you are able.

For 2000 years, Catholics have believed Jesus to be truly present in the most Holy Eucharist, just as He taught His disciples in John 6. We believe that at each celebration of the Mass, bread and wine are truly transformed into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. Therefore, Jesus comes to be present with us not only spiritually, but physically.

Catholic Tradition celebrates the presence of Jesus in many ways. The Risen Lord is present in the heart of each believer who accepts him as Savior. He is present in our relationships of love and service to each other. He is present in the Word of his sacred scripture. Present in all the sacraments, he reveals his love in a special way through the Holy Eucharist. Not only do we celebrate that presence of Jesus when we come to Mass, but Catholic tradition also extends Eucharistic devotion to the sacrament which remains after the liturgy. In this way Catholics can pray before the Blessed Sacrament reserved in the tabernacle or exposed in the monstrance.

A Truly Personal Relationship with Jesus

Eucharistic Adoration helps people to be more personally involved with Christ because it makes the Eucharist more central in the lives of people. By spending time with Jesus in the Eucharist, one is able to grow in a truly personal relationship with Him.

Jesus Gives Us His Graces 

Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament calls out to each one of us: “Come to Me all of you who are weary and find life burdensome and I will refresh you.” Jesus stays with us in the Blessed Sacrament to refresh us in mind and heart and spirit by lavishing on us those graces that encourage us, console us strengthen us, guide us and inspire us to place all of our trust in His Sacred Heart, so that the power of His Love may cast out every fear, doubt worry and anxiety that we have. Through Eucharistic Adoration with exposition we proclaim to our parish and community that Jesus is here, truly present among us today.

The Holy Father Asks for Eucharistic Adoration

 On December 2, 1981, Pope John Paul II began Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in a chapel at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and urged all parishes to do the same.  In his wonderful encyclical letter on the Eucharist, Dominicae Cenae, Pope John Paul II says: “The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of that authentic renewal which the council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point. ...The Church and the world have a great need for Eucharistic worship. Jesus awaits us in this Sacrament of Love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease.”

Sense of Community & Peace

Eucharistic Adoration builds community because the Eucharist is the Sacrament of Unity. As one person unites himself to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, Jesus unites everyone closer together through the bond of His Divine Love.

Pope John Paul II said that “the best, the most effective, and the surest way of bringing lasting peace on earth is through the great power of Eucharistic adoration.” Only Jesus has the power and love to redirect the course of history back to the path of peace, which He promised. The Eucharist brings peace to human hearts. And people with peaceful hearts make a peaceful world.
Through our Holy Hours of prayer, Our Holy Father declared that we are contributing to "the radical transformation of the world," the "establishing of everlasting peace," and the coming of Christ's Kingdom on earth.  The Holy Eucharist is the mystery of our faith. Jesus said that faith can move mountains. One person coming before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament represents all of humanity. Every man, woman and child on the face of the earth receives some new, wonderful effect of God's goodness, of God's mercy, of God's grace and of God's love, when they put their faith into action and come to visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.  When you come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, He appreciates this so deeply that you release the power of His love and graces to all of His children throughout the world.

Why is Exposition Necessary?

The difference between spending time with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament exposed in a monstrance, rather than in the tabernacle, is the same as the difference between conversing with a friend face to face instead of having a closed door between you. Most adorers say that seeing Jesus under the appearance of the Sacred Host is much more conducive to intimacy than Him being hidden in a tabernacle. It helps adorers to be faithful to their scheduled hours, because they know that Jesus cannot be left alone in the Blessed Sacrament exposed in a monstrance. The scheduled adorers are guardians of the Blessed Sacrament, so their presence is necessary. Yet, the most compelling reason for exposition is because the Holy Spirit asks for it. During his Eucharistic discourse, Jesus made this unmistakably clear:  "Indeed, this is the will of My Heavenly Father, that everyone who looks upon the Son and believes in Him, shall have eternal life. Him I will raise up on the last day." (John 6:40)

For more information on Eucharistic Adoration, visit:

The Real Presence Association

For more information contact the Rectory or email Darlene Weber at eweber4131@hotmail.com

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