Eucharistic Adoration, Back Bay Boston

by Tom Gallagher on Aug. 10, 2009

Michael Paulson of The Boston Globe writes a fine article on the return of Eucharistic Adoration at St. Clement Shrine in the City of Boston. Apparently, the practice was re-ignited by a few lay people, and not because the New York Yankees just swept the Boston Red Sox in four straight games this past weekend. No. This has been in the works for some time. Good for them.

Nice article!

Submitted by Snowdrop (not verified) on Aug. 10, 2009.

Nice article!

A wonderful thing to see:

Submitted by Clint Green (not verified) on Aug. 10, 2009.

A wonderful thing to see: perpetual adoration of the Eucharistic Lord. Christ waits for us each day, all day, the "prisoner in the Tabernacle", waiting our devotion and our adoration, waiting to pour graces into our lives and our world. God bless these folks at St. Clement Shrine, and all those across the nation and the globe who take time out of their days (and nights) to worship our Lord and to pray for our broken world.

This kind of "prisoner of the

Submitted by frère charles du désert OSB OBLAT (Congrégation de Subiaco) (not verified) on Aug. 11, 2009.

This kind of "prisoner of the Tabernacle" talk is the kind of non-theologically accurate and in fact heretical stuff that made this kind of thing less than recommendable.

In our parish in Mexico, we do celebrate as a community not only weekly Adoration, but also all of the last Saturday night of every month at least a dozen of us men of the parish gather to stay all night in prayer and vigil with the Blessed Sacrament.

I have had the great grace to participate continually for some five years now. This is within the context of our parish community, which is the locus of the Eucharist, pouring real graces and substantial merciful, compassionate peace into our troubled community, parish, pueblo and world international.

The movement of course is called the Oradores Nocturnos Mexicanos and other such names, and some ever worse.

You are welcome to join us and discover what this theology, and spirituality, is truly all about within the context of the vibrant and alive Roman Catholic Church. It is no prisoner of the tabernacle waiting alone and separate from us for someone to come pass by for a visit, and to leave, alone and separate. We each and everyone altogether very seriously and truly bear this prisoner within and among us when we leave. The idolatrous pietism reflected in your remarks on the other hand is not isomorphic which the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church nor her magisterium.

You really have no concept or

Submitted by Clint Green (not verified) on Aug. 12, 2009.

You really have no concept or understanding of the heritage of the Catholic faith. No one truly believes Christ is a prisoner in the tabernacle. What we believe is that Christ is present in the tabernacle in a special and unique way and He does wait for us to come to Him. Scripture says that He "stands at the door and knocks". He does not barge in and demand to be seen and heard. He waits, quietly, patiently, for us to come to Him. So very sad...

A Doctor of Theology

Submitted by Guido (not verified) on Jan. 30, 2012.

A Doctor of Theology discusses this idea...

It looks like the OSB fella is in the wrong.

http://youtu.be/DYeH4muBWU4

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