Tuesday, September 8, 2009

O Sacrament most holy, O Sacrament divine, all praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine!


Our monastic community devotes at least four hours, sometimes more, each day to prayer before the Most Blessed Sacrament. We begin our day with Exposition at 5:15 A.M., pray the Office of Readings and Morning Prayer and have about an hour of silent adoration before Holy Mass at 7 A.M. We pray Mid-Morning Prayer after Mass as a Thanksgiving, have Mid-Day Prayer at 11:45 A.M. before dinner and then have another 45 minutes of prayer, the Rosary, Litany of the BVM, and Evening Prayer at 5 P.M.

Prayer before our Lord Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament is a central part of our living "the life of Nazareth".

Today, the feast of the Nativity of our Blessed Mother, an article by a priest from Notre Dame University was posted that ridicules and even denigrates prayer before the Blessed Sacrament as "obsolete".
Father McBrien ends his article with this statement: "Eucharistic adoration, perpetual or not, is a doctrinal, theological, and spiritual step backward, not forward."

To which, I, along with our community respond: "Rubbish".

This is an outrage.

If you read this and are also outraged, please log onto http://ncronline.org/blogs/essays-theology/perpetual-eucharistic-adoration
and let them know what you are thinking.

I end with this prayer:
My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love You!
Pardon those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you!

1 comment:

Adoro said...

My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love You!
Pardon those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you!


AMEN!

I don't know what I would do if I could not flee directly into the presence of Jesus in the Adoration chapel, or, barring that, His presence hidden in the tabernacle.

I'd be lost forever.