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Dec 01, 2007 at 09:19 AM
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The apostolate of prayer devoted to adoring the Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is chaired by Linda Specter. 

Adoration is now in "The Chapel of Jesus Our Eternal Priest", 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  Adorers arriving between the hours of 7:00 PM and 7:00 AM are requested to have a Monstrance Pin visible when knocking on the door.

As Saint Augustine put it: ..."no one eats that flesh without first adoring it; we should sin were we not to adore it." In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply the natural consequence of the eucharistic celebration, which is itself the Church's supreme act of adoration.  Receiving the Eucharist means adoring him whom we receive.  Only in this way do we become one with him, and are given, as it were, a foretaste of the beauty of the heavenly liturgy.  The act of adoration outside Mass prolongs and intensifies all that takes place during the liturgical celebration itself.  Indeed, "only in adoration can a profound and genuine reception mature.  And it is precisely this personal encounter with the Lord that then strenghtens the social mission contained in the Eucharst, which seeks to break down not only the walls that separate the Lord and ourselves, but also and especially the walls that separate us from one another."
Sacramentum Caritatis no. 66, Pope Benedict XVI
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