As today is the first Friday of the month of September, we will have Eucharistic Adoration from now until the end of Period 8 in the Branton Chapel.  All students, faculty, and staff are welcomed.

Eucharistic adoration is the practice of prayer and adoration in the presence of a consecrated host. This devotion rests upon a belief in the real presence. Participants sit or kneel before the body of Christ, a unique and substantial presence encountered so profoundly nowhere else.

St.  John Paul II (the Second) said,  "In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ is present not as an object  to be admired, but as a person, a subject, to be encountered.”

Let us call to mind that we are in God’s presence.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Lord,

We know that, in some way, we are always in your presence,  even in all the noise, chaos, and demands of our lives. We are in your presence when we are awake and when we sleep, in all the happy moments and in all the sad ones too.  We are in your presence when faced with problems we cannot solve and with angry and difficult people we wish would go away.

Ametur Cor Jesu!  Ametur Cor Mariae!