APOSTOLATE OF EUCHARISTIC ADORATION INC.

MISSION

Our organization promotes and helps to establish, organize, expand, revive and maintain Eucharistic adoration and perpetual Eucharistic adoration. We are an apostolate of Eucharistic adoration for the promotion of faith in, love for and adoration of Jesus, truly present in the most Blessed Sacrament, working for the salvation and sanctification of souls and the glory of God. Our mission includes providing remote, in-person or Do It Yourself assistance with, and resources for, adoration Sign-Ups, campaigns and organization. We also provide education on the Real Presence, which helps to promote belief in and love of God in the Eucharist. We promote Eucharistic miracles, frequent Communion, even daily if possible and more.

It was St. Pope John Paul II’s great desire that perpetual Eucharistic adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, would continue into the future and be established “in all parishes and Christian communities throughout the world” (Reasons for Eucharistic Adoration). “Jesus Christ is calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.” – St. Pope John Paul II. We encourage all to embrace God’s call for these daily or weekly “holy hours”.

MORE DETAILS ON HOW WE FULFILL OUR MISSION

We promote, encourage and assist parishes, dioceses, and Christian communities to establish, expand and maintain:

The gold standard of round the clock perpetual Eucharistic adoration;
Extended Eucharistic adoration, beginning in the early hours of the morning and continuing until the evening;
Daily Eucharistic adoration during specific hours (i.e. hours before or after daily Mass and at other times when parishioners can attend);
Eucharistic adoration during one or more days of the week during specific hours;
Individual parish spiritual campaigns or diocesan spiritual campaigns for all parishes in the diocese, to expand or start perpetual or regular weekly Eucharistic adoration at the same time. Entire diocese can begin promoting and organizing adoration sign-up weekends on a specific date (i.e. Start campaign on Ash Wednesday in order to expand on Corpus Christi; start campaign in September to expand in January; start first Week of Advent, etc.). Gives enough time for all parishes to schedule adorers and prepare to launch perpetual or more Eucharistic adoration to begin at their parishes on the same future date, a few months later;
Eucharistic adoration for special circumstances, such as feast days, anniversaries;
Holy Hours for all clergy, seminarians, religious congregations, children, youth, young adults, families, schools, adults, seniors, care centres, prisoners, life, healing etc.;
Faithful Eucharistic education and catechesis that builds belief in and devotion to Jesus Christ, truly present in Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity in the Holy Eucharist;
Availability and promotion of daily Mass, frequent Communion and Confession;
Eucharistic Processions, for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi and other occasions;
Pastoral letters promoting the Eucharist and Eucharistic Adoration;
Diocesan and parish websites promoting adoration, listing days, times and sites;
Vigils such as 40 Hours and diocesan rosary congresses, especially if regular weekly exposition or perpetual adoration is impossible;
Diocesan or worldwide celebrations such as Years of the Eucharist;
National, international and local Eucharistic congresses and revivals;
Eucharistic conferences and retreats and materials with experiences of adoration, prayer, contemplation;
We recommend exposition of the Blessed Sacrament during exorcisms perfomed by Catholic priests designated by their diocese as exorcists. It is much more difficult for demons to sustain the exorcism during exposition.

We were ecclesiastically commissioned to be a center for the promotion of adoration. Our mission includes providing remote, in-person or Do It Yourself assistance with and resources for Eucharistic adoration Sign-Ups, campaigns and organization. Our ministry assists parishes, dioceses and communities in conformity with the teaching of the Church and in obedience to the bishops and clergy, for the building up of the Body of Christ. Our apostolic efforts and resources are theologically and morally sound. This is vital for successfully establishing, organizing, expanding, reviving and maintaining daily or weekly holy hours of Eucharistic adoration and exposition, extended hours of Eucharistic adoration or round the clock perpetual adoration. Our ministry helps to ensure that scheduled adorers are always present when Our Lord is exposed either in the main body of the church or a separate chapel. We help to recruit and train scheduled adorers and an adoration coordinating team of laity from within each parish, and provide comprehensive organizational resources.

For remote assistance, we provide sample sign-up weekend sermons for parish or other local clergy (or in some cases a lay adoration sign-up sharing invitation to be delivered after Holy Communion during Mass); the vital promotional, preparation and organizational resources including sign-up forms that can be customized to list the hours and days that match your goals and needs; online video and organizational meetings; and telephone and remote support. Do It Yourself resources and support are available. For the in-person option, a missionary visits the parish for the sign-up weekend and an organizational meeting. We help to organize diocesan or individual parish campaigns.

Parishes really need and want to invite people back to church and to bring in new members. We make suggestions and provide a template for launching a Eucharistic revival outreach to parishioners, including those who may have missed the sign-up weekend, to facilitate a return to the sacraments, the fulfilling of our Sunday obligation and becoming scheduled or visiting adorers. Adoration helps your parish life to thrive. Good Catholics and families flock to parishes with adoration and daily or frequent Mass. We encourage parishioners to frequent Mass and Holy Communion, even daily when possible.

In addition, we promote faithful education, belief in and loving devotion to the Real Presence of Christ:

Who is and what is the Eucharist?

God is really, truly and substantially present in the most Blessed Sacrament, the Eucharist. Therefore, the Eucharist is certainly “the source and summit of the Church’s life and mission” (Lumen Gentium, 11). At the Last Supper, on the night He was betrayed, our Saviour/Savior Jesus Christ instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of His Body and Blood (Sacrosanctum Concillium, 47). The Eucharist is the sacrament that Jesus Christ established when “He took bread, and when He had given thanks He broke it and gave it to them, saying ‘This IS My Body, which is given for you, Do this in remembrance of Me’ and likewise the chalice, saying, ‘This chalice which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My Blood.'”

At the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, when a Catholic priest follows this command of Jesus and offers the words of consecration, by these words of Christ and the invocation of the Holy Spirit, the bread and wine are permanently changed (transubstantiated), and they become Jesus: His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity (CCC 1333, 1373-76, 1406, 1410, 1412-1413). The Eucharist is Christ’s complete and personal gift of Himself to us under the appearances of bread and wine.

Jesus, the Truth Himself, informed us: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this Bread will live forever … Whoever eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For My Flesh is true food, and My Blood is true drink” (John 6:51, 54-55). In his very first encyclical, Pope St. John Paul II reminded us that through the Eucharist, “each Christian receives the saving power of redemption” (Redemptor Hominis, 20). Catholics receive and adore God in the Eucharist.

Jesus Real Presence remains in this sacrament permanently and does not vanish after Mass. Hosts remaining after Holy Communion are kept in a tabernacle. During exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, a Host is placed in a sacred vessel called a Monstrance (CCC 1377, 1379) and at least one person must be present at all times.

In addition to Mass and Holy Communion, we are called to adore the Eucharist, exposed in a Monstrance and before the Tabernacle. Eucharistic adoration is the practice of adoring God in the most Holy Eucharist.

Subcribers to our website receive messages promoting the Eucharist, Eucharistic and perpetual adoration for all ages and states in life; Eucharistic adoration sign-up and parish and coordinator resources, adorer formation, Eucharistic Miracles, Saints, holy hours, faith, love, news, revival, quotes, images, videos, media, reflections, reparation, prayers, events, books, literature, homiletics, processions, topics, devotions, indulgences, holiness, frequent Mass, frequent Confession, Marian devotion, and the salvation and sanctification of souls etc. Subscribers and benefactors are included in our annual Novena of Masses.

VISION

We are all called to become Saints. We would like to see as many souls as possible in Heaven. Prayer and adoration help towards the salvation and sanctification of souls and give glory to God.

“The worship of the Eucharist outside of the Mass is of inestimable value for the life of the Church. … It is the responsibility of pastors [parish priests] to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in particular, as well as prayer of adoration before Christ present under the Eucharistic species” (St. Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, No. 25). Eucharistic spirituality “embraces the whole of life” (Pope Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis, 77-78).

The vision is that there be people in every parish and Christian community praying and adoring Our Lord, in response to His invitation: “Could you not keep watch one hour with Me?” (Matthew 26:40). Adorers are formed by spending time with Jesus and being close to Him. Holy hours with our loving and merciful Saviour in His Real Presence provide tremendous opportunities for spiritual growth in knowledge and love of God, virtue, prayer, peaceful silence, and countless benefits for individuals, parishes and society.

Sample prayer which may prayed as a parish out-loud after Holy Communion or after the Final blessing at Masses: