Being in the presence of the sacramental Body and Blood allows an opportunity to adore God and provides an excellent opportunity for prayer. 

EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT 

First Friday of the month  The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed in the chapel following the 9:00 am Mass until approximately 7:00 pm.  You are invited and encouraged to come to the chapel any time during those hours for prayer in the presence of the Lord in the Eucharist.  Please sign the “Adoration Book” at the entrance to the chapel.  

First and Third Saturday of the month The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed in the chapel following the 4:30 pm Saturday Mass until 8:00 am Sunday.

You are invited to come to the chapel during those hours by entering through the Maria Street chapel door.  It is necessary to ring the door bell during the night-time hours.

WHAT IS THE EUCHARIST? 

The Eucharist is nothing less than Jesus’ complete and Personal gift of Himself to us — Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity — under the appearances of bread and wine in the consecrated Host. He hides His immense glory, beauty and dignity in the Blessed Sacrament because He wants us to come to Him in faith that we may love Him for Himself.

WHAT IS EUCHARIST ADORATION?
Eucharistic Adoration is an expression of our love for Jesus, who loves us so much that He never wants to leave us and so stays with us day and night in the Blessed Sacrament.  For He says: “Behold I am with you always,” because “I have loved you with an everlasting love.  And constant is my affection for you,” (Mt. 28: 20; Jer. 31:3). 

Pope John Paul II in his first encyclical letter, Redemptor Hominis, says that Eucharistic adoration is the most fundamental duty in the life of the Christian and that liturgical celebration of the Eucharist and private worship of the Eucharist complement each other.  He states: “Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharist adoration in order that our love may be complete.” 

WHY EUCHARISTIC ADORATION?      

JESUS WANTS IT!!!
Because Jesus loves you infinitely, unlimited is the joy you bring to His Sacred Heart when you come to spend an hour with Him in the Blessed Sacrament. Jesus spoke these moving words to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque: “I have a burning thirst to be honored by all people in the Blessed Sacrament.”

JESUS GIVES US HIS GRACES!!!
Jesus stays with us day and night in the Blessed Sacrament, calling out to each one of us. “Come to me all of you who are weary and find life burdensome and I will refresh you,” (Mt. 11:28). Jesus stays with us in the Blessed Sacrament to refresh us in mind and heart and spirit by lavishing on us those graces that encourage us, console us, strengthen us, guide us and inspire us to place all of our trust in His Sacred Heart, so that the power of His love may cast out every fear, doubt, worry and anxiety that we have. 

THE HOLY FATHER ASKS FOR IT!!!
In Dominicae Cenae, Pope John Paul II says: “The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of that authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point.  The Church and the world have a great need of Eucharistic worship.  Jesus waits for us in this Sacrament of Love.  Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and in contemplation... May our adoration never cease?" 

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF EUCHARIST ADORATION?

IT IS A WAY TO A TRULY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS!!!
Eucharistic Adoration helps people to be more personally involved with Christ because it makes the Eucharist more central in the lives of people.  By spending time with Jesus in the Eucharist, one is able to establish a truly personal relationship with Him. 

IT BUILDS COMMUNITY!!!
Eucharistic Adoration builds community because the Eucharist is the Sacrament of Unity.  As one person unites to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, Jesus unites everyone closer together through the bond of His Divine Love. 

IT BRINGS PEACE!!!
Pope John Paul II said that the best, the most effective, and the surest way of bringing lasting peace on earth is through the great power of Eucharistic Adoration.  Only Jesus has the power and love to redirect the course of history back to the path of peace, which He promised. The Eucharist brings peace to all hearts.  And peaceful hearts make a peaceful world. 

SPEND A SPECIFIC HOUR EACH MONTH WITH JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
Jesus “waits for us in this Sacrament of Love,” where He appeals to each one of us: “Could you not watch one hour with me?” (Mt. 6:40). 

This hour that Jesus wants you to spend with Him is spent any way you want to: reading the Holy Bible, praying the Holy Rosary, with your favorite prayer book, or speaking to Jesus heart to Heart, as one does with a friend.  You may be so tired or troubled or worn out, that you may just want to sit and relax, and enjoy the sweet peace that comes from simply being with
the One who loves you the most --  Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament. 

When you pray the Rosary in the Presence of the Blessed Sacrament, you love Jesus with the Heart of Mary and offer to Jesus the perfect adoration of Mary.  Jesus receives your holy hour as if Mary herself were making it.  Mary encloses you in her Heart and Jesus accepts your hour with Him as coming directly from the Heart of His very own Mother.  The Heart of Mary makes up for what is lacking in our own hearts.