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To: LiteKeeper
This is a complete puzzlement to those of us of the Protestant persuasion.

Lol! I'm sure it is ; sadly, your protestant upbringing prevents your from opening up to the glory of Our Lord through this ancient form of devotion (scroll up and click on the lin to the History of Eucharistic Adoration)

Imagine for a moment that we are living in Jesus’ time and He has invited us to visit with Him and share a meal with Him. Knowing who He was, we would be humbled and honoured by this invitation. We would put all our effort - our whole self - into being there with Him.

The good news is that Jesus IS here with us today - body, blood, soul and divinity – in the Eucharist. Although Jesus comes to us under the appearance of bread and wine, His presence is as real to us NOW as He was real to His disciples when he walked this earth. He can perform miracles, heal us, teach us, love us; we can talk to Him and He can speak to us through His Word (Holy Scripture) and through the Holy Spirit who lives in us through our baptism.

Jesus, who is Love, invites us to come to Him, to share our lives with Him, to love Him, to simply be present with Him in this Most Blessed Sacrament.

As Christ said to his sleeping disciples in the Garden at Gethsemane,

Could you not watch with me one hour?

As catholics who believe in the Real Presence, to spend one hour in Eucharistic Adoration is to be in the Presence of our Lord. It defies description.

13 posted on 01/07/2004 4:45:59 PM PST by NYer
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To: NYer
in the Eucharist

And so, as they say, there's the rub. You believe that Jesus, the Creator God of the Universe, the One Who sustains the entire universe, resides in the material substance of the piece of unleavened bread you call the "Host."

We Protestants believe that Jesus is at the right hand of the Father...that, as He said, He is present with us always, and that He is not "entombed" in any substance made with human hands.

I believe in the Real Presence of our Lord and Saviour...He resides in my heart. He promised to send another Comforter when He departed...and He always keeps His promises.

Just because a "practise" or "tradition" is ancient, does not make it right.

14 posted on 01/07/2004 7:05:52 PM PST by LiteKeeper
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