Based on his best-selling book, 30 DAY EUCHARISTIC REVIVAL A Retreat with St. Peter Julian Eymard”, world-renowned speaker and author, Father Donald Calloway, MIC, delivers this riveting presentation and invitation to “fall in love with Jesus through the Blessed Sacrament.” Fr. Don delivered this important talk asking for concrete action and change for a perpetual Eucharistic revival!
For example:
- HAVE ADORATION – it transforms the parish, priest, parishioners, brings healings, blessings etc. “THIS IS A NO-BRAINER!”
- Confession – promote it, preach about it, sin stinks, it’s a spiritual diaper-change
- Tabernacle in sanctuary, central place of pre-eminence
- Genuflect properly and reverently
- Dress modestly – cover up, including at Catholic weddings, wear your Sunday Best
- Silence – a good thing, keep a prayerful atmosphere in church
- Receive Holy Communion on the tongue to prevent profanation
- No one should be denied Communion on the tongue
- Altar rails work
- Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion at Novus Ordo Masses are not for ordinary circumstances and are not the norm
- Why the attack on the Latin Mass? 99.9% of attendees believe in the Eucharist and the faith, they have large families, do not contracept and are not heretics
- Our Lady has given us prophecies about the times we are living in
- Have the humility to do these things
- The greatest pilgrimmage is to the Eucharist.
“If souls understood what treasure they possess in the Divine Eucharist it would be necessary to protect tabernacles with impregnable ramparts, because in the delerium of a holy and devouring hunger, they would go themselves to feed on the manna of the Seraphim. Churches at night as in daytime would overflow with worshippers, wasting away with love for the august prisoner.” – Blessed Dina Belanger
At the beginning of the video, some may want to skip over the part about the analogy on the problematic increase in mind-altering drug gummy addictions. That is not mentioned in the book.
The book is available here: 30 Day Eucharistic Revival A Retreat with St. Peter Julian Eymard by Fr. Donald Calloway MIC
OVERVIEW of the book
Several popes have referred to St. Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868) as “the Apostle of the Eucharist.” Nonetheless, he is not that well known in the universal Church. When it comes to worldwide recognition of his extraordinary life, as well as the many amazing things he did to foster a greater love for the Blessed Sacrament, most Catholics are unfamiliar with him and have never heard his name. That is about to change.
30 Day Eucharistic Revival is intended to help you, your children, grandchildren, and all future generations rediscover and experience a revival of belief in the Real Presence.
“30 Day Eucharistic Revival is a wonderful book that will help people fall in love with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. I’m certain that my son would love this book and want people, especially young people, to read it and experience a Eucharistic revival.” — Antonia Salzano Acutis, mother of Blessed Carlo Acutis
Saint Peter Julian Eymard lived in an era that was plagued by lack of belief in the Real Presence and outright indifference to this core teaching of Christianity – sound familiar? “I fear that people are wandering too far from the Holy Eucharist, that this mystery of love par excellence is not sufficiently proclaimed. So souls are suffering, becoming more sensual and materialistic in their devotional life and inordinately attached to human beings. It is because they don’t know how to find their consolation and strength in our Lord,” he wrote.
Endorsements:
“Just as he did for the Year of St. Joseph, Fr. Calloway has provided a useful and practical tool to make the National Eucharistic Revival pastoral initiative a moment of grace and conversion. Taking advantage of the writings of St. Peter Julian Eymard, a great proponent of the beauty and power of the Eucharist, Fr. Calloway offers a month of daily meditations that will inspire and strengthen the reader’s love for the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.” — Most Rev. Joseph F. Naumann, DD, Archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas
“As a new convert to the Catholic faith in my university years, St. Peter Julian Eymard was one of the first authors I read on the Holy Eucharist. I was immediately struck by his clarity, love, and insights on the mystery of the Holy Eucharist. 30 Day Eucharistic Revival is extremely timely. I can think of no better way for a parish to enter more deeply into the Eucharistic Revival than by making this retreat together. Father Calloway’s books always resonate with the faithful, and I’m convinced this book will be the same. This retreat has the capacity to transform a whole parish, and I strongly endorse it.” — Most Rev. James D. Conley, DD, Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska
“30 Day Eucharistic Revival is a wonderful book that will help people fall in love with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. I’m certain that my son would love this book and want people, especially young people, to read it and experience a Eucharistic revival.” — Antonia Salzano Acutis, mother of Blessed Carlo Acutis
The book is available here: 30 Day Eucharistic Revival A Retreat with St. Peter Julian Eymard by Fr. Donald Calloway MIC
PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC REVIVAL THROUGH ADORATION IN EVERY PARISH AND SCHOOL
With the National Eucharistic Revival, Pilgrimage and Congress, Jesus wants to revive and heal us in a lasting way, through His Real Presence in Eucharistic adoration!
As an apostolate with many years of experience promoting Eucharistic and perpetual adoration, we are delighted that almost every parish in the diocese of Wichita, Kansas reached round the clock adoration, except for a few with partial perpetual hours. Since Covid, some parishes reduced their hours, but every school still has adoration.
Wichita is a city of modest size (reported population of under 400,000 in 2020), where Catholics form a minority (under 100,000), with ninety parishes, thirty-four Catholic elementary schools, and the local diocese has only one bishop with no auxiliaries.
A long-time adorer from this diocese, Ronnie Gittrich, helped start perpetual adoration almost forty years ago in 1986 at St. Francis of Assisi parish. A coordinator from another parish helped them to get it going. “It’s like being in heaven for an hour, soaking Him in. If people would forget about all the reasons they can’t go and just try it, once you try it you want it. The Holy Spirit puts that seed into your heart. It’s a commitment… and people have responded to it. My hour is at midnight on Fridays. The original couple after my hour have had the same hour since 1986! With adoration, the parish got better and kept growing.” Ronnie once spoke at a parish adoration renewal weekend at her parish. “Many of our parishioners have been adoring for an hour a week for almost forty years. Your hour is not just benefitting yourself; but helps towards the salvation of souls throughout the whole world.”
Bishop asked for adoration as part of parish Stewardship
How was this enormous success achieved? There is a short video on YouTube of the late Bishop Eugene Gerber of Wichita diocese on “The History and Importance of Eucharistic Adoration in the Diocese of Wichita.” He explains that there is no better connection we can make with Christ than in the Eucharist and Eucharistic adoration. As part of “stewardship,” Bishop Gerber promoted adoration by asking people to come and invest in spending time in Eucharistic adoration and perpetual adoration spread as part of a natural progression.
Sandy Rongish, who promotes adoration for children in the diocese had originally thought that in the 1980’s Bishop Gerber told every pastor that he was mandating perpetual or Eucharistic adoration in every parish. According to canon law, bishops can mandate adoration. Canon 387 states that the bishop is to give an example of holiness and is the principle dispenser of the mysteries of God. He is to seek in every way to promote the holiness of Christ’s faithful. Sandy says, “The bishops need to require adoration in every parish!”
Another adoration coordinator who helped parishes in the diocese to start adoration confirmed that it wasn’t mandatory. Other bishops were impressed and asked Bishop Gerber how he got perpetual adoration in so many parishes. At first, a visiting missionary priest helped with adoration sign-up weekends, but he became so busy with requests that he was unable to return. He gave a blessing to lay persons to open more chapels on their own. They asked people to join them in praying and fasting or doing some type of mortification and visited parishes that wanted adoration sign-up weekends.
Bishop Gerber invited a few lay persons into his office to find out how they were opening so many chapels. He requested photos of every adoration chapel started. A photo album with three hundred photos was prepared and Bishop Nauman spoke about it on EWTN.
Ronnie links the success of getting adoration in all parishes also to their “stewardship” way of life. Parishioners are asked to donate their time, talents, and treasures and this includes volunteering to help with Eucharistic adoration. Her parish had double the amount of people needed for 24-hour adoration at their adoration sign-up weekend. When Covid was over they had even more adorers. Ronnie first heard about perpetual adoration in the diocesan newspaper when it featured a huge front-page article promoting the first parish in the diocese that started perpetual adoration. While reading the article, she and her husband became inspired and convicted that they needed to start perpetual adoration at their own parish.
Growth in number of priestly ordinations
This small diocese had ten ordinations each year for two years in a row, from 2016-2017. Many there attribute this to the fact that they have perpetual adoration in every parish. They had to build their own seminary and currently have forty seminarians. Previously they have had over sixty seminarians. Since 1998, four priests of the diocese were ordained as Catholic bishops. Only one of those four bishops from Wichita is a native of the diocese. “I truly believe it is the adoration, it is time spent before Jesus that nourish their souls” says Sandy. Ronnie agrees and adds that before perpetual adoration began in the 1980s, the number of ordinations was low, only around two or three a year.
Parish Stewardship instead of government funded schools
Before adoration began, the diocese started their parish “stewardship,” so that the diocese has full control over Catholic education. Without any government funding, the diocese has thirty-three Catholic schools offering free Catholic education. How can they afford that? Parishioners are asked to dig deep and tithe eight percent of their income to the church if possible and this stewardship pays for the Catholic education. A pastor in the diocese said he would give every penny back if they could not afford it. Parish stewardship and Eucharistic adoration are thriving. People are asked to give of their time, talents, and treasures. The result is that every parish has adoration and donations from parishioners of all parishes provides free Catholic education!
Adoration for children in every school
St. Padre Pio said the prayers of children would save the world. We need adoration for children. Once perpetual adoration began in every parish, they started children’s adoration on the weekends but few parents were bringing their children, so they started adoration in the schools on weekdays. Since 2014, Children’s adoration began to take place at least once a month or weekly in every school. The principal and the pastor decide whether it will be weekly or monthly. A priest, teacher, religious, mother, volunteer or even a child can lead the adoration for children. All adult volunteers must obtain a police background check, and everyone receives training. Catholic schools have one day each week devoted to adoration. Students from kindergarten onwards receive thirty minutes of adoration at their school on First Fridays. A priest brings Jesus in a Monstrance and the whole school joins in adoration. On the second Monday of each month, a mother brings a classroom of students to the church for adoration. Since almost every parish there has perpetual adoration, the priest moves the Monstrance to the main body of the church when the students visit. The time of adoration ends with the Litany of the Sacred Heart.
Our organization, known as “PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION” or “EUCHARISTIC ADORATION”
Our apostolate is an approved collaborator of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishop’s National Eucharistic Revival. We would like to see adoration in every parish and every Catholic school worldwide and help expand, maintain, and revive Eucharistic or perpetual adoration in Canada, the United States and beyond. We also promote the Eucharist, Eucharistic miracles, and daily or frequent Mass. Parishes are welcome to contact us for help organizing an adoration sign-up weekend. We assist remotely, with comprehensive Do It Yourself resources or in some locations we can provide or facilitate an in-person missionary visit if desired. On the weekend, clergy preach a Sign-up sermon (we provide samples) or laity deliver instructions after Holy Communion. During each Mass, Invitations (sign-up forms) to commit to a weekly holy hour are handed out to the faithful, completed and collected. We provide all of the organizational documents in a digital format and an adorer scheduling database. A coordinating team of two or more people from within each parish is recruited. We lead or provide instructions for an organizational training meeting by phone, email or video conference. People are amazed to see 25-60% of adult parishioners sign-up for a weekly holy hour! Hours around daily Mass are popular. The response from the sign-up and the parish priest’s decision, determine the number of days and hours that exposition will take place, either partial hours or round-the-clock adoration.
We can be reached through our website www.perpetualeucharisticadoration.com or at 1-800-784-9550.
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Every perceptible particle of the Eucharist is Jesus. “If any one denieth, that, in the venerable sacrament of the Eucharist, the whole Christ is contained under each species, and under every part of each species, when separated; let him be anathema.” – The Council of Trent (Note: While it is still a grave error to deny this, the 1983 Code of Canon Law abrogated the penalty of “anathema” mentioned in the Council of Trent, which had historical value, but is not current law. Catholic Apologist Jimmy Akin actually has a brief article on the change here: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/anathema. Some of the current Canons on the Eucharist can be found on the Vatican website here: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_P39.HTM)
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