Adoration
at the Cathedral
Adoration Quotes
"The
visit to the Blessed Sacrament is a great treasure of the Catholic faith.
It nourishes social love and gives us opportunities for adoration and
thanksgiving, for reparation and supplication. Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament, Exposition an Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Holy Hours
and Eucharistic processions are likewise precious element of your heritage--in
full accord with the teaching of the Second Vatican Council.
It
is also my joy to reaffirm before Ireland and the whole world the wonderful
teaching of the Catholic Church regarding Christ's consoling presence
in the Blessed Sacrament: his Real Presence in the fullest sense: the
substantial presence by which the whole and complete Christ, God and
man, are present (cf. Mysterium Fidei, 39). The Eucharist, in the Mass
and outside of the Mass, is the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, and
is therefore deserving of the worship that is given to the living God,
and to him alone (cf. Mysterium Fidei, 55; Paul VI, Address of 15 June
1978).
~Pope
John Paul II, 1979
"Christ
held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying:
'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored
it."
~St.
Augustine
"To
converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are
always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all.
All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face
to face."
~St.
Teresa of Avila
"We
adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which
are in the whole world, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed
the world."
~St.
Francis of Assisi
Each time we look upon Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, He raises us
up into deeper union with Himself, opens up the floodgates of His merciful
love to the whole world, and brings us closer to the day of His final
victory "where every knee will bend and proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord".
"The reign of God is already in your midst." The coming of Jesus to
us in the Eucharist is assurance of His promise of final victory: "BEHOLD,
I COME TO MAKE ALL THINGS NEW."
~Blessed
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
"Love
cannot triumph unless it becomes the one passion of our life. Without
such passion we may produce isolated acts of love; but our life is not
really won over or consecrated to an ideal. Until we have a passionate
love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish
nothing,"
~St.
Peter Julian Eymard
"Neither
theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in
love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with
Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers
of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes
like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst
of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world,"
~Archbishop
Fulton J. Sheen
"When
the Sisters are exhausted, up to their eyes in work; when all seems
to go awry, they spend an hour in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.
This practice has never failed to bear fruit: they experience peace
and strength,"
~Blessed
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
"...It
is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal
witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the
Blessed Sacrament in particular, as well as prayer of adoration before
Christ present under the Eucharistic species."
~Pope
John Paul II, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, §25
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