Catholic Word of the Day: EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT, 02-02-10

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EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

The ceremony in which a priest or deacon removes the Sacred Host from the tabernacle and places it on the altar for adoration. In public exposition the Sacred Host is placed in the lunette of the monstrance and elevated so that all adorers can see it. In private expositions the tabernacle door is opened and the ciborium containing consecrated Hosts is brought forward. Any good cause is reason for private adoration. Public exposition of the Blessed Sacrament requires a period of adoration, in private or public with prescribed hymns and prayers, as well as the blessing with the monstrance. Definite days for public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament are no longer specified for the universal Church; now any days may be chosen for good reasons; and for regular exposition permissions are granted by the local ordinary. The ceremony was introduced in the fourteenth century under the influence of the newly established feast of Corpus Christi. Some religious monasteries and convents with special permission have the Sacred Host perpetually exposed for special honor and devotion with someone in attendance night and day.

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Came up by random. Couldn't have chosen a better post for the first week of the month than this!

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**have the Sacred Host perpetually exposed for special honor and devotion with someone in attendance night and day.**

How many of you have Perpetual Adoration available at your Church?

I blieve this practice will save the Church in America.

Contact the Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament for an excellent Lenten Mission and get your Perpetual Adoration set up at your church!

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Catholic Word of the Day – links will be provided later by another FReeper.

 

Monogamy	Sanctoral Cycle/Proper of the Saints	Prinknash
Gift of Knowledge	Nine Offices	Imputability
Thesis	Hypapante	Evangelist of Mary
Grace of God	Morality of Dancing	Priest
Henotheism	Creationism	Incommunicable Attribute
Homoousios	Credence	Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

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The best, the surest , and the most effective way of establishing everlasting peace on the face of the earth is through the great power of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament." -- Pope John Paul II

"Could you not watch one hour?" -- Mark 14:37

I am happy to testify that many young people are discovering the beauty of adoration, whether personal or in community. I invite priests to encourage youth groups in this, but also to accompany them to ensure that the forms of adoration are appropriate and dignified, with sufficient times for silence and listening to the word of God. In life today, which is often noisy and scattered, it is more important than ever to recover the capacity for interior silence and recollection: Eucharistic adoration permits one to do this not only within one's "I" but rather in the company of that "You" full of love who is Jesus Christ, "the God who is near us."

 

~Pope Benedict XVI

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I WISH the three churches around my nabe had it.

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I encourage you to talk with the priests and encourage them to have the Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament mission during Lent. Might be too late for this year — but the Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament will come out any time.

Believe me, Your church will THEN have perpetual adoration! It’s a favulous presentation. We had them in Lent a couple years ago — maybe three now — and by May we had our Adoration 24/7 up and running. Not bad, eh?

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Earlier Catholic Words of the Day

Monogamy	Sanctoral Cycle / Proper of the Saints	Prinknash
Gift of Knowledge	Nine Offices	Imputability
Thesis	Hypapante	Evangelist of Mary
Grace of God	Morality of Dancing	Priest
Henotheism	Creationism	Incommunicable Attribute
Homoousios	Credence	Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament