Another Pertual Adoration INSIGHT!

Perpetual Adoration Insight: Jan 18,10 -Church Teaching Regarding the Importance of Perpetual Adoration
Taking time each week to spend an additional hour with Jesus outside the Mass is well documented in our church teachings. Take a moment and read the following words from Pope Paul VI that explains the importance of spending a weekly hour with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. In articles 56 and 66 of the Papal teaching, Mysterium Fidei, Pope Paul VI states that Jesus wants more of you than Sunday Mass!
"The Catholic Church has always offered and still offers the cult of Latria to the Sacrament of the Eucharist, not only during Mass, but also outside of it, reserving Consecrated Hosts with the utmost care, exposing them to solemn veneration." "To visit the Blessed Sacrament is ...a proof of gratitude, an expression of love, and a duty of adoration toward Christ our Lord." (Art. 56 and 66).

Dec 28th,09 - I can remember when we started perpetual adoration in our parish and I asked the visiting priest how long I should stay on as the co-ordinator. His response to be was simply this, ¡°What part of perpetual don¡¯t you understand?¡± Perpetual does mean forever. Many people start perpetual adoration as a Lenten sacrifice and as soon as Lent is finished they quit spending that hour with Jesus. At the Eucharistic Congress in 1988 the concept of perpetual was addressed. Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration lasts as long as Our Lord¡¯s love for us in the Blessed Sacrament lasts, which is forever. As long as Jesus loves us enough to want to be with us day and night, then we want to love Him enough to be with Him day and night. Pope John Paul II stated that: ¡°He is God Who is near, a God Who waits for us, A God Who has chosen to remain with us. When one has faith in this Real Presence, how easy it is to be close to Him, adoring the Love of loves, how easy it is to un-derstand the expressions of love with which, throughout the centuries, Christians have surrounded the Eucharist.

Dec 10th - Have you wondered why perpetual adoration is growing in our church? Pope
John Paul II worked tirelessly to promote adoration. The following is some of
his thoughts. Pope Paul VI, in the introduction to his encyclical Mysterium
Fidei (the Mystery of the Faith), on the 'doctrine and worship' of Jesus in the
Holy Eucharist, 'So that the hope aroused by the [Second Vatican] council, that
a flourishing of Eucharistic piety which is now pervading the whole Church, be
not frustrated by this spread of false opinions.' The visit to the Blessed Sacrament...
is a great treasure of the Catholic faith. It nourishes social love and give us opportunities
for adoration and thanksgiving, for reparation and supplication...Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
[is]...in full accord with the teaching of the Second Vatican Council (Pope John Paul II,
Phoenix Park, Ireland, 1979).

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