“My joy, my pleasure, my delight is to be with you” (Prov 8:31) Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament — also known as Eucharistic Adoration — is the adoration of Jesus Christ present in the Holy Eucharist. The Eucharist is the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus under the appearance of bread and wine. Exposition is the placement of the sacred host outside the tabernacle for public adoration. St. Alphonsus Liguori commented on Eucharistic Adoration: “Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us.” Spending time before the Blessed Sacrament in prayer and devotion is spending time before the living God, to be able to encounter God and look at God, while He looks back at you. It is a meeting and mingling of the hearts in which a person’s heart encounters the Heart of Christ! St. John Paul II wrote, “Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete.”

“My joy, my pleasure, my delight is to be with you” (Prov 8:31) Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament — also known as Eucharistic Adoration — is the adoration of Jesus Christ present in the Holy Eucharist. The Eucharist is the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus under the appearance of bread and wine. Exposition is the placement of the sacred host outside the tabernacle for public adoration. St. Alphonsus Liguori commented on Eucharistic Adoration: “Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us.” Spending time before the Blessed Sacrament in prayer and devotion is spending time before the living God, to be able to encounter God and look at God, while He looks back at you. It is a meeting and mingling of the hearts in which a person’s heart encounters the Heart of Christ! St. John Paul II wrote, “Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete.”