Priest urges renewed emphasis on eucharistic devotion, adoration

Published: 2005-03-16

YONKERS, N.Y. (CNS) -- Franciscan Father Benedict J. Groeschel, an internationally known specialist in spirituality, called March 14 for a renewal of emphasis on eucharistic devotion and adoration. He said attacks on practices such as exposition of the Blessed Sacrament had been expressed in books used in some Catholic seminaries, colleges and high schools and had led to the decline of such practices. This "declining eucharistic devotion" is a "measure of the loss of faith," said the priest, who is a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal. Preceded by Cardinal Avery Dulles and Father Richard John Neuhaus, Father Groeschel made his comments in giving the third and concluding lecture in a Lenten series sponsored by the seminary of the Archdiocese of New York, St. Joseph's in Yonkers, on the Year of the Eucharist.

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