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Pope Backs Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration
Zenit.org ^ | 03-09-06 | Zenit.org/Pope Benedict XVI

Posted on 03/09/2006 8:17:12 PM PST by Salvation

Code: ZE06030906

Date: 2006-03-09

Pope Backs Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration

Particularly in Rome Diocese

VATICAN CITY, MARCH 9, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI has supported an initiative to offer the possibility of perpetual Eucharistic adoration in churches of the Rome Diocese.

The Pope expressed his enthusiasm for this initiative during his meeting March 2 with Roman parish priests, as reflected in his conversation with them. A text of the conversation was subsequently published in Italian by the Vatican.

Father Alberto Pacini, rector of the Church of St. Anastasia on the Pallatine Hill -- which has had perpetual Eucharistic adoration for the past five years -- made this proposal to the Pope.

The experience of this parish has led other churches to follow its example. St. Anastasia's has also become the headquarters of a movement of Eucharistic evangelization.

"My proposal, my suggestion, my desire, my aspiration would be that each of the five sectors of Rome have perpetual Eucharistic adoration," said Father Pacini.

The Holy Father thanked the priest for the information and for his efforts in promoting this initiative, describing "perpetual adoration" as "a neurological point of the life of faith in Rome."

"This proposal to create five places of perpetual adoration in the five sectors of the diocese of Rome, I place confidently in the hands of the Cardinal Vicar" Camillo Ruini, the Pope added, glancing at the cardinal.

Reborn

"I only wish to thank God, that following the [Second Vatican] Council, after a period in which something of the meaning of Eucharistic adoration was lacking, this adoration has been reborn everywhere in the Church, as we saw and heard in the Synod on the Eucharist," Benedict XVI said.

He continued: "Certainly with the conciliar constitution on the liturgy, all the wealth of the Eucharistic was particularly rediscovered, the celebration where the Lord's will is fulfilled: He gives himself to us and we respond giving ourselves to him."

But now "we have rediscovered" that "the ability to celebrate his sacrifice and in this way enter into sacramental, almost corporal communion with him, loses its profundity and human richness if adoration is lacking, adoration as the act that follows receiving Communion," the Holy Father said.

"Adoration," he added, "is to enter into profound heartfelt communion with the Lord, who makes himself bodily present in the Eucharist."




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Emphasis on Rome here...........

How about everywhere?

1 posted on 03/09/2006 8:17:16 PM PST by Salvation
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To: Salvation

Feedback from your vicariate/deanery, please.

Here in my vicariate we have one out of six churches with Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. Our mission speaker during Lent will be on this subject too!

Would YOU sign up for one hour every week?


2 posted on 03/09/2006 8:20:05 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Salvation
I would sign up. We don't have Perpetual Adoration, at least not yet. But after years of liberal, new agey leadership, some of the replacement Priests have brought it back. There are some 'stipulations', like at first the Rosary was banned, whether by individuals or outside of the Adoration time. So far it's one day a week and certain 'special' occasions in local parishes, but that's a great start considering just 2 or 3 yrs ago it was actually renounced by some in the clergy and leadership. And now that it's back, it does seem well received.

We were told that instead of (not even in addition to) spending an hour a week kneeling in the church, we should be out at the food bank volunteering or at the Ecumenical prayer service. Yes, this from a priest in his homily. His ecumenical 'services', never held in the church because local protestant Ministers objected, were so successful that several long time Catholic families left altogether. I'm in the Erie diocese in PA.

3 posted on 03/09/2006 8:28:29 PM PST by fortunecookie
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To: Salvation
To find Eucharistic Adoration near you (or on a pilgrimage).

http://www.acfp2000.com/Chapels/usa.htm
4 posted on 03/09/2006 8:40:27 PM PST by SaltyJoe (A mother's sorrowful heart and personal sacrifice redeems her lost child's soul.)
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To: SaltyJoe

Thanks for that link.


5 posted on 03/09/2006 9:02:09 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: fortunecookie

It will be interesting to see what happens after our Mission.


6 posted on 03/09/2006 9:02:55 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Salvation

"How about everywhere?"

We have Adoration here. Our pastor recently extended Adoration to the entire week. We have a sign-up sheet so that someone is in attendance to the King every hour.

As it turns out, there are many parishoners spending the hour.

This is a great blessing and our parish is growing very fast.

Being with Jesus for that time must be what heaven is like: timeless peace. What joy! ~Especially with the insanity that now reigns in this World.


7 posted on 03/10/2006 5:14:47 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Salvation
Someone ping Lynch in St. Petersburg, FLA.

He forbade Eucharistic Adoration in his diocese a few years back.

8 posted on 03/10/2006 5:33:41 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: OpusatFR

May God bless your pastor and your parish.


9 posted on 03/10/2006 6:20:07 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: marshmallow

Lynch and Flynn need to go for a sail in a sinking boat. <sarcasm off


10 posted on 03/10/2006 6:20:45 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: marshmallow

I have been told (or I read it somewhere) that the bulk of new vocations is coming from parishes with 24/7 adoration.
Does anyone have specific information on this?


11 posted on 03/10/2006 6:22:16 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Salvation

We have 24/7 at our parish.


12 posted on 03/10/2006 6:46:41 AM PST by Aggie Mama
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To: Salvation

I'm curious as to why you seem to have hit every religion keyword available. I see some posters do similar things, but I'm particularly perplexed at the inclusion of Judaism and Islam on the list.

This seems like an odd article to use as a conversion tool, after all.


13 posted on 03/10/2006 6:51:39 AM PST by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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To: Salvation

I am signed up. It's important to my prayerlife, too.


14 posted on 03/10/2006 7:25:20 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Aggie Mama

Same with my parish. I do just once a month however but it's very important for me.


15 posted on 03/10/2006 7:28:06 AM PST by nomorelurker (wetraginhell)
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To: Salvation
One Parish I attend has 24/7, which I participate. The other local parish has it one day a week. I don't know if this is related, but some people of the latter are migrating to the former parish - probably also in part with the very orthodox priest there.

I suggest people go to Adoration, even if it is just stopping by for 10-15 minutes. It is a good way to sit in silence without worrying about chores...

Regards

16 posted on 03/10/2006 9:27:53 AM PST by jo kus (I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore CHOOSE life - Deut 30:19)
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To: marshmallow
I am nauseous after reading that.
17 posted on 03/10/2006 9:04:15 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Stations of the Cross in Poetry---> http://www.wayoftears.com)
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To: FormerLib

We never know who might read the right thing at the right time, do we?


18 posted on 03/10/2006 9:10:51 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: jo kus

**It is a good way to sit in silence without worrying about chores...**

Absolutely. It is so peaceful.


19 posted on 03/10/2006 9:13:23 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Salvation
Dear Salvation,


Good Afternoon from India although it is now 1.00 a.m. in the morning local time here I.S.T.

Could you please add me to your ping list for all articles that you post and not just Catholic Caucus.

In answer to your question, about Vocations in parishes that have Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration in the United States and Canada -- my answer is yes.

I watched this Program on E.W.T.N. in India a few months back called "E.W.T.N." Live with Father Mitch Pacwa where a newly ordained Priest from the Archdiocese of Guess where but only Minneapolis spoke about how Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration in many parishes is leading Orthodox Catholic Young Men to consider the Priesthood and the Religious Life.

I strongly feel that the name of the young priest who was speaking was Father Joseph Johnson or something like that. I may have got it wrong.

Father Robert Altier in many of his Homilies on the Real Presence as well as on the Blessed Sacrament often spoke about how the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul have 55 Parishes that have Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration.


I remember one particular Homily of his in 2004 where he spoke about this. That Homily was on the 10th of October 2004 that marked the beginning of the Year of the Eucharist.

BTW, there is something wrong with one site that is hosting Father Altier's Homilies and Talks. I am quite sure that the Server is down or there is a Technical Problem which needs fixing.

The Site in question is http://www.gabrielmass.com/altier


The Other one that I posted is working well.


In Jesus and Mary,
20 posted on 03/11/2006 11:40:59 AM PST by MILESJESU (Father Robert Altier's Homilies Rock. He was and is a Man of God and a True Soldier of Jesus Christ)
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