ADORATION

 

 

In his recent trip to France (once called the daughter of the Church), the Holy Father urged the faithful to get back to adoration, and to use time with Jesus in the Eucharist to intercede for others. He said today “we have lost the meaning of adoration a little bit and we need to get it back”.

“One cannot know the Lord without the habit of adoring, of adoring in silence. I believe — if I am not mistaken — that this prayer of adoration is the least known among us; it is the one we engage in the least. To waste time — if I may say it — before the Lord, before the mystery of Jesus Christ. To adore, there in the silence, in the silence of adoration. He is the Lord and I adore Him.”

I can’t speak for the Church in France or other countries, but I do know there is a resurgence of Eucharist adoration in our country, from Hawaii to Connecticut.

More and more we see young priests and laity who go to frequent adoration. And statistics show that where there is Holy Adoration, there are vocations.

A new study shows that almost two-thirds of adult Catholics in the United States believe in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. This is a significantly different result from the 2019 Pew Research study that suggested only one-third of adult Catholics in the U.S. believe in the Church’s teaching on the Blessed Sacrament. This study comes amid the second year of the U.S. bishops’ Eucharistic revival, which was launched in part because of the Pew Research poll. Could it be that people are waking up and listening to the Holy Spirit?

 It seems the Revival is making an impact as it stresses  Eucharistic devotion  by strengthening our liturgical life through the celebration of the Mass and Eucharistic adoration.

“So I recommend it to you – all these forms of prayer will be crowded with the faces of those whom Providence places on your path. You will bring with you their eyes, voices, and questions to the Eucharistic Table, before the tabernacle, or to the silence of your room, where the Father sees you.”