Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Vocation and Healing Monstrance
Serra Club US Hosts
2023 Premiere Pilgrimage of Pope Benedict XVI’s Monstrance as Inspired by the National Eucharistic Revival
Barbara Luster, Serra International Membership Coordinator bluster@serrainternational.org
Dr. Michelle de la Marnierre Fritz, Ambassador for Pope Benedict XVI Monstrance ,
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What a great act of love! Let us return the love of Our Savior by spending time with Him in Adoration.
What a great act of love! Let us return the love of Our Savior by spending time with Him in Adoration.
What a great act of love! Let us return the love of Our Savior by spending time with Him in Adoration. What a great act of love! Let us return the love of Our Savior by spending time with Him in Adoration.
“In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host. Be assiduous in the prayer of adoration and teach it to the faithful. It is a source of comfort and light, particularly to those who are suffering.”
Pope Benedict XVI —
from an address to priests in Poland, May 25, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI on Eucharistic Adoration
– from his meeting with members of the Roman clergy
March 2, 2006
“Thanks be to God that after the Council, after a period in which the sense of Eucharistic Adoration was somewhat lacking, the joy of this adoration was reborn everywhere in the Church, as we saw and heard at the Synod on the Eucharist. Of course, the conciliar Constitution on the Liturgy enabled us to discover to the full the riches of the Eucharist in which the Lord’s testament is accomplished: he gives himself to us and we respond by giving ourselves to him.
“We have now rediscovered, however, that without adoration as an act consequent to Communion received, this centre which the Lord gave to us, that is, the possibility of celebrating his sacrifice and thus of entering into a sacramental, almost corporeal, communion with him, loses its depth as well as its human richness.
“Adoration means entering the depths of our hearts in communion with the Lord, who makes himself bodily present in the Eucharist. In the monstrance, he always entrusts himself to us and asks us to be united with his Presence, with his risen Body.”
““In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply the natural consequence of the eucharistic celebration, which is itself the Church’s supreme act of adoration.
“Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given, as it were, a foretaste of the beauty of the heavenly liturgy. The act of adoration outside Mass prolongs and intensifies all that takes place during the liturgical celebration itself.”
“Cooperatores Veritatis”
Cooperators of the Truth
Prayer for Vocations
O Father, raise up among Christians
abundant and holy vocations to the priesthood,
who keep the faith alive
and guard the blessed memory of your son Jesus
through the preaching of his word
and the administration of the sacraments,
with which you continually renew your faithful.
Grant us holy ministers of your altar,
who are careful and fervent guardians of the Eucharist,
the sacrament of the supreme gift of Christ
for the redemption of the world.
Call ministers of your mercy,
who, through the sacrament of Reconciliation,
spread the joy of your forgiveness.
Grant, O Father, that the Church may welcome with joy
the numerous inspirations of the Spirit of your Son
and, docile to his teachings,
may she care for vocations to the ministerial priesthood
and to the consecrated life.
Sustain the bishops, priests, and deacons,
consecrated men and women, and all the baptized in Christ,
so that they may faithfully fulfill their mission
at the service of the Gospel.
This we pray through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Mary, Queen of Apostles, pray for us.
— From the Vatican, March 5, 2006
Benedict XVI
““It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.””