Live Christ through Adoration

For us Catholics, there is no better , more profound and deeper way to express our personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ than to spend our very lives and time with Him in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, through which He gives us His flesh and blood. His real and awesome presence. Whenever we set foot in any Adoration Chapel, we are reminded of that biblical image of the prophet Moses, who falls on both knees trembling with fear before the holy presence of God, who manifested Himself through a "burning bush". Do we not, like Moses, also feel the same way whenever we recline ourselves before him in the Blessed Sacrament? " Were not our hearts burning...?" to quote the disciples on the road to Emmaus, every time we come to his table?

In the old testament, the Lord commanded Moses that "on the table, before me, you must place the bread of continual offering" (Exodus 25:30). And yet in the new testament, the reverse happened. It was no longer man who continues to offer the shewbread to God, but rather, it is now God who himself has become the "Bread of the Presence", who has given himself as the Bread of Life come down from heaven through the Jesus Christ who willingly offered Himself on the Cross.

As such, through the Blessed Sacrament, Jesus comes to us as Love. And because He comes to us as Love, we also go to Him with love and because of love. It is out of love for Jesus that we respectfully kneel and genuflect before Him, who comes to us in the humble form of the Consecrated Host. It is out of love for Jesus that we observe a sacred silence whenever we seek to adore Him in this Sacrament, together with fellow Christians. After all, it is in the silence that the heart speaks loudly and clearly. And most importantly, our personal relationship with Jesus deepens further every time we come face-to-face, heart-to-heart with Him through this Sacrament of Love. When we recline our heads on His chest like what the beloved disciple did during the Last Supper, the words of St. Augustine of Hippo come to its fullness: "Our hearts our restless and we will not rest until we find rest in You".

Resources:

The New Evangelization Resource Book (NERB)

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