Eucharistic Reflection - To Adore!

Eucharistic Adoration is the greatest of actions and there is nothing greater or holier we can do on earth than this adoration. To adore is to share the life of Mary on earth when she adored the Word Incarnate in her virginal womb, when she adored Him in the Crib, on Calvary, in the divine Eucharist.

(Photo©Father Lawrence Lew, O.P. Used With Permission)

To adore is to share the life of noble souls on earth, whose love and happiness found expression in the long hours they passed at the foot of the Tabernacle to adore therein the hidden God and to glorify and love Him as much as they could. The Tabernacle was their only reason for loving life; they lived only to consume themselves in the flames of His love.

To adore is to share the life of the saints in heaven who never cease to praise, bless and adore the goodness, the love, the glory, the power and the divinity of the Lamb immolated for the love of men and the glory of God the Father.

Eucharistic Adoration is the holiest of actions. It is so because it is the perfect exercise of all the virtues.

(St. Peter Julian Eymard)