Beginning Eucharistic Adoration with Guests: Teresa Gooding and Marika Zimmerman

What can you do to fight the suffocating plague of indifference and immorality? Eucharist Adoration!! Guests Teresa Gooding and Marika Zimmerman share the details on how to get started. What is Eucharistic Adoration and how does one go about doing this? What if your parish doesn’t have Eucharistic Adoration? How would you go about setting it up? What do the Popes say about spending time with Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament? What did some of our Carmelite Saints think about it? There are many reasons to begin Eucharistic Adoration, not the least coming from Scripture. The benefits pay off in Heavenly dividends! It’s good to start developing a love for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in our young people today, to help them become spiritually strong and virtuous.

Scripture passages: Lk. 24:29, Mt. 28:20, Jn 6:51, Jn 6:40, Jn 15:4, Mt. 26:40, Mt. 11:28, and 1 Pt 5:7

Catechism of the Catholic Church: CCC #2096, #2628

Books: “Bread of Heaven: A Treasury of Carmelite Prayers and Devotions on the Eucharist” Compiled by Penny Hickey, OCDS; Christian Classics. “Eucharistic Colloquies” by Mother Maria Candida of the Eucharist, Discalced Carmelite (1884-1949); Edizioni Feeria – Edizioni OCD. “7 Secrets of the Eucharist” by Vinny Flynn; MercySong Ignatius. “Manual for Eucharistic Adoration” by the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration; Tan Books. “Meditations for Eucharistic Adoration” by Elizabeth Ficocelli; Paulist Press. “20 Holy Hours” by Fr. Mateo Crawley-Boevey SS.CC.; St. Paul Books and Media.

Articles: “John Paul II and the Blessed Sacrament” by Jason Evert. “The Spirituality of St. Teresa of Avila Applied to the Five Marks of the Norbertine Order” “The History of Eucharistic Adoration: Development of Doctrine in the Catholic Church” by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.

Encyclicals: “Mane Nobiscum Domine” (“Stay with us Lord”) by Pope John Paul II, 2004. “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” (“The Church from the Eucharist”) by Pope John Paul II, 2003. “Dominicae Cenae” (“The Mystery and Worship of the Eucharist”) by Pope John Paul II, 1980. “Mysterium Fidei” (“The Mystery of Faith”) by Pope Paul VI, 1965. “Mirae Caritatis” (“Mirror of Charity”) by Pope Leo XIII, 1902.

Websites: www.catholicnewsagency.com for article on “24 Reasons for Spending a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament”

benefits_of_holy_hour.pdf for article on “Over 100 Benefits of Eucharistic Adoration”

www.usccb.org “The United States Catholic Conference of Bishops.”

eucharistic-devotion on Eucharistic Devotion and Holy Hours.

perpetual-expositon-of-the-blessed-sacrament.cfm on Perpetual Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.

www.therealpresence.org on the Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration

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