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adoration SIGNUP
Signup for an hour of
ADORATION
CONTACT:Norma Ochoa 361.249.4070
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Julie Balboa 830.407.9401
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adoration@olmcportland.com
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adoration substitutesWe are developing a list of substitutes for the Adoration Chapel so that daily coordinators or current adorers can contact someone when there are people on vacation, ill, or needing substitutes for other reasons. We need you whether you are a regular adorer or just someone who could help occasionally.
Please email adoration@olmcportland.com with your availability:
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ADORATION
Welcome to the Perpetual Adoration Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament at Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish.
What is Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament?
Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration is the continuous adoration of Jesus Christi present in the Holy Eucharist. In the main churches that have this adoration, the Eucharist is displayed in a special holder called a monstrance, and people come to pray and worship Jesus continually throughout the day and night. Christ’s great love for us was shown when he was crucified on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins and give us eternal life. He loves us without limit and offers Himself to us in the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist.
Eucharistic Adoration is adoring or honoring the Eucharistic Presence of Christ. In a deeper sense, it involves “the contemplation of the Mystery of Christ truly present before us”. During Eucharistic Adoration, we “watch and wait”, we remain “silent” in His Presence and open ourselves to His graces which flow from the Eucharist.
By worshiping the Eucharistic Jesus, we become what God wants us to be. Like a magnet, the Lord draws us to Himself and gently transforms us. In its fullest essence…Eucharistic Adoration is “God and Man reaching out for each other, at the same time.” The Eucharist is: Jesus truly present – Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity!
At the moment of Consecration, during the Mass, the “gifts” of bread and wine are transformed (transubstantiated) into the actual Body and Blood of Christ, at the Altar. This means that they are not only spiritually transformed, but rather are actually (substantially) transformed into the Body and Blood of Christ. The elements retain the appearance of bread and wine but are indeed the actual Body and Blood of Christ. This is what is meant by Real Presence: the actual, physical presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. Christ instituted this Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist in order to remain with mankind until the end of time (John 14:18).
“Could you not watch one hour with Me?” (Matthew 26:40) Jesus waits for us in the Blessed Sacrament. He waits for our little acts of faith, adoration, love, thanksgiving, repentance, reparation and charity that we can offer Him as we contemplate – His Divine Majesty – in the Blessed Sacrament.
St. Alphonus Liguori wrote: “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”. The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: By not only celebrating the Eucharist, but also by praying before it outside of Mass, we are enabled to make contact with the very wellsprings of Grace…”
Saint John Paul II in one of his homilies said, “It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple (cf. John 13:25) and to feel the infinite love present in His heart…if, in our time Christians must be distinguished by the “art of prayer”, how can we not feel a renewed need to spend time in spiritual conversation, in silent adoration, in heartfelt love before Christ present in the Most Holy Sacrament?”
