Booklet explains, encourages eucharistic adoration

Published: 2005-01-03

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. bishops' Committee on Liturgy has issued a resource booklet encouraging and explaining adoration of the Eucharist outside Mass. Titled "Thirty-One Questions on Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament," the 41-page booklet highlights the importance of eucharistic adoration and its relation to the Mass. It explains the difference between adoration of the Eucharist in the tabernacle and the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Appendixes include the texts of church regulations on worship of the Eucharist outside Mass, the reservation and exposition of the Eucharist, eucharistic processions and eucharistic congresses. "Eucharistic adoration extends holy Communion in a lasting way and prepares us to participate more fully in the celebration of the eucharistic mystery," the booklet says. "Pope John Paul II calls worship of the most holy Eucharist outside Mass 'an important daily practice (that) becomes an inexhaustible source of holiness,'" the booklet adds.

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