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.”
