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What do you say when people ask you why they should participate in Adoration of The Blessed Sacrament when Jesus is everywhere??
 
True, Jesus is everywhere, but in the Adoration, Jesus is especially present in body and blood, soul and divinity – not just spiritually / in soul and divinity.
 
And I would add that I can be in His real presence, I can look at Him because he is sacramentally, and substantially present. It’s as close as we are going to get until we go to heaven or the second coming. It’s waaaay closer than if one is sitting in ones room or outside looking at the stars.
 
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What do you say when people ask you why they should participate in Adoration of The Blessed Sacrament when Jesus is everywhere??
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The Blessed Sacrament is the full participation in Christ Jesus. It is the source and summit of the Christian life. That’s like saying “Why should I breathe, when air is everywhere?” One can no more appreciate Christ without Him filling their lives through His sacrament than one can appreciate oxygen without filling their lungs with air.
 
Why would I visit my best friend when I can just talk to her on the phone?

Same thing.

Josh
 
“Jesus just walked into the room” Thats different than “Jesus is everywhere”
 
Because it is where you can be face to face with Jesus, literally.

Because he is physically there. There’s something to that presence compared to the spiritual presence everywhere. It is where I feel bliss and I am embraced regardless of my sins or wrongdoings. I feel accepted and comforted and consoled.
 
Eucharistic Theology
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
A Renascence of Faith in Real Presence
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The teachings of Trent ushered in a renascence of the faith in the Real Presence that affected many aspects of the Catholic liturgy. Notable among these was the renewed impetus it gave to the worship of the Blessed Sacrament reserved in the tabernacle or exposed in the monstrance on the altar.
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God raised up Apostles of the Real Presence, including persons like St. Margaret Alacoque and St. Peter Eymard. Margaret Mary’s revelations, which helped promote the modern devotion to the Sacred Heart, occurred while she was in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. Peter Julian Eymard founded the Priests of the Blessed Sacrament, with a special emphasis on devotion to the Real Presence.
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There the matter stood at the opening of the Second Vatican Council. In the meantime, new theories arose that the Church felt were endangering the unqualified faith in the Eucharistic presence and how it was brought about. These theories centered around the psychological notion of presence and the ritual of sign. The two were closely associated and, in order to forestall any further crisis, Paul VI took the unprecedented step of publishing a major doctrinal encyclical between the third and final sessions of the Council.
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He is present uniquely, however, in the Real Presence – a presence that is different from all the foregoing. It is the physical presence of Christ in our midst, no less truly than he is now present at the right hand of his Father. Consequently “this presence is called real – by which it is not intended to exclude all other types of presence as if they could not be ‘real’ too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense. It is a substantial presence of which Christ, the God-man, is wholly and entirely present.” If we could make a graphic comparison, there is as much difference between Christ’s presence in the Blessed Sacrament and his presence elsewhere on earth as there was between his presence among his disciples when he appeared to them on Easter Sunday night and his presence before and after the appearance.
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See the encyclical at this link:
MYSTERIUM FIDEI
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PAUL VI
ON THE HOLY EUCHARIST
 
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What do you say when people ask you why they should participate in Adoration of The Blessed Sacrament when Jesus is everywhere??
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i guess you could say using that logic, why ever go to church, God is everywhere…

but if you believed that Christ was physically present behind that door, wouldn’t you want to walk (or crawl in)?.. well, we Catholics who believe as any professed catholic should believe, that Christ is physically present on the other side of the door… so come on in…the water is fine!.. 👍
 
MYSTERIUM FIDEI
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PAUL VI
ON THE HOLY EUCHARIST
  1. Moreover, Christ is present in His Church in a still more sublime manner as she offers the Sacrifice of the Mass in His name; He is present in her as she administers the sacraments. On the matter of Christ’s presence in the offering of the Sacrifice of the Mass, We would like very much to call what St. John Chrysostom, overcome with awe, had to say in such accurate and eloquent words: “I wish to add something that is clearly awe-inspiring, but do not be surprised or upset. What is this? It is the same offering, no matter who offers it, be it Peter or Paul. It is the same one that Christ gave to His disciples and the same one that priests now perform: the latter is in no way inferior to the former, for it is not men who sanctify the latter, but He who sanctified the former. For just as the words which God spoke are the same as those that the priest now pronounces, so too the offering is the same.” (38) No one is unaware that the sacraments are the actions of Christ who administers them through men. And so the sacraments are holy in themselves and they pour grace into the soul by the power of Christ, when they touch the body. The Highest Kind of Presence.
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These various ways in which Christ is present fill the mind with astonishment and offer the Church a mystery for her contemplation. But there is another way in which Christ is present in His Church, a way that surpasses all the others. It is His presence in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, which is, for this reason, “a more consoling source of devotion, a lovelier object of contemplation and holier in what it contains” (39) than all the other sacraments; for it contains Christ Himself and it is “a kind of consummation of the spiritual life, and in a sense the goal of all the sacraments.” (40)
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  1. This presence is called “real” not to exclude the idea that the others are “real” too, but rather to indicate presence par excellence, because it is substantial and through it Christ becomes present whole and entire, God and man. (41) And so it would be wrong for anyone to try to explain this manner of presence by dreaming up a so-called “pneumatic” nature of the glorious body of Christ that would be present everywhere; or for anyone to limit it to symbolism, as if this most sacred Sacrament were to consist in nothing more than an efficacious sign “of the spiritual presence of Christ and of His intimate union with the faithful, the members of His Mystical Body.” (42)
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It is a question of degree. Christ may be present everywhere but nowhere is he as near as in the Eucharist. We should want to be as close to him as physically possible.
 
The Blessed Sacrament is the full participation in Christ Jesus. It is the source and summit of the Christian life. That’s like saying “Why should I breathe, when air is everywhere?” One can no more appreciate Christ without Him filling their lives through His sacrament than one can appreciate oxygen without filling their lungs with air.

Thanks! This says it simply and in a way many can understand.
 
yes GOD is everywhere but the vigil adoration is different because GOD is present physically in the monstrance through the appearance of the eucharist. If we believe that the one in the eucharist appear in the blessed sacrament before us is Jesus Christ then we should come to HIM. visiting in vigil adoration is not just an ordinary prayer it is more an a sacrifice, offering your time makes it difficult for some of us because of our earthly schedules but this what our GOD makes him happy, offering something that is very hard for us to do.
 
Here is a little more detail on an earlier post:

It [the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist] is the difference between saying “The spirit of God pervades the universe and saying ‘Jesus Christ just walked into the room.’”
–G.K. Chesterton
 
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