Pope strongly encourages Eucharistic adoration
March 13, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI strongly encouraged the practice of Eucharistic adoration during a March 13 meeting with the members of the Congregation for Divine Worship. The Holy Father asked the Congregation to help promote the practice, "through a greater awareness of the mystery in complete faithfulness to Sacred Tradition, and by enhancing liturgical life within our communities." The faithful should recognize the transcendent God in the Eucharist, and respond with reverent awe, the Pope said. He cited his own words to a World Youth Day gathering in Cologne to express the significance of the Eucharist:
God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in Him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outwards to others until it fills the world, so that His love can truly become the dominant measure of the world.
During Lent, the Pope said, the faithful should practice fasting "as a preparation for the Eucharist and as a spiritual weapon to fight against any disordered attachment to ourselves."
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