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Today we invite you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

Peace be with you.

Friends, we come to this great feast of Corpus Christi, so every year, right at the end of the whole

Easter season just before we turn back to ordinary time, we celebrate the

Feast of Corpus Christi and of course this year as the Church in the US is going through a lengthy

eucharistic revival it's good for us once again to turn to this greatest of

sacraments. You know we've looked at the Eucharist from all kinds of different

angles. What I want to do today is to talk about something which has become very dear to me

in the course of my life and that is eucharistic adoration. To be honest with you, when I was a young

man, I mean even my seminary years, we were kind of discouraged from doing eucharistic adoration

because we thought, you know, it attracted from the mass, it was a static presence, not an active presence, all that.

And I just come to realize that's so much nonsense, all of that. One of the great profits I think of

adoration and of the Holy Hour was the great Fulton Sheen and just as I record these

words just a few weeks ago I was up at St Paul

Seminary where a lot of my seminaries from Winona Rochester Go and I gave a day of

reflection to the faculty and students and when I was there in the chapel I started

talking about eucharistic adoration and one of the teachers reminded me afterwards

well you know sheen attended this seminary and would have prayed in this chapel,

in fact, learned the discipline of the Holy Hour when he was there.

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