Solemn Eucharistic Adoration

Introduction to Prayer
The presiding minister or another designated minister approaches the ambo and
greets the assembled faithful in these or similar words:

Presider: Good morning/Afternoon/Evening:

We gather in the presence of Christ, truly present Body and
Blood, Soul and
Divinity, in the Blessed Sacrament, along with priests across our
Diocese.

Entrance of the Ministers & Chant

The presiding minister, accompanied by other ministers if present, enter the
Sanctuary and genuflect to the Tabernacle (or if the Tabernacle is not located in the
Sanctuary profoundly bow to the Altar) before either going to their assigned seats
or kneeling before the Altar.

Hymn: O Salutaris Hostia / O Saving Victim is to be sung in either Latin or

English:
Exposition & Incensation
The presiding minister goes to the Tabernacle, genuflects, removes the Blessed
Sacrament, brings it to the Altar, and places it in the monstrance turned towards
the faithful. If a Priest or Deacon, kneel before the altar and incense the Holy
Eucharist. Musical accompaniment should continue, if possible, until the
incensation is concluded. If the Pastoral Leader or a Lay Minister, go directly to the
Greeting and Opening Prayer.

Presider: O God, come to our assistance.

℟: O Lord, make haste to help us.

Presider: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit

℟: As it was in the beginning is now and will be forever. Amen.

All: We adore you and behold your sacred presence. Cleanse our hearts
from all vain and distracting thoughts; enlighten our understanding;
direct our will that we may worthily, attentively, and devoutly spend
this hour in your loving presence. We are chosen priests and we
strongly believe in what you said that wherever two or three
gathered in your Name, you will be in the midst of them. Look down
with compassion and love upon us who are now united before you in
the lowliness of our hearts to adore you, the Perfect High Priest, our
Good Shepherd. We adore you whom we desire to be made known
and loved by all. Stay in our midst, O Beloved Jesus. Fill our hearts
with your blessing.

O Lord, humbly kneeling before you, we also express our sorrow for
the sins we committed, for our failures to do your will. We also
desire to make reparations for our own coldness towards you in the
Sacrament of your love; for the ingratitude and sins of others,
 especially for the outrages and sacrileges committed against your
Most Blessed Sacrament.

We offer this Holy Hour to make us your worthy priests and also to
offer to you our own particular intentions.

Presider: Grant us the grace, Dear Jesus, to spend this hour for your

greater glory, in

thanksgiving for the many graces that you have given us, and

also for the

experience of your merciful love which you have revealed. We

now listen to

You, the Truth that sets us free from the burdens brought by our

weaknesses and transgressions, our Way and our Life that leads

us to be

steadfast in our chosen vocation.

℟: Amen.

Psalmody

First Reading and Responsory (Taken from the Liturgy of the Hours)

Gospel Acclamation (Gospel for the Day)

Short Homily

Sacred Silence for meditation or reflection

ACT OF THANKSGIVING

Presider: O Beloved Jesus, we thank you for all the favours you have given

us.

All: We thank you for accompanying us in our journey. We thank you for
your
loving mercy. We thank you for your love in spite of our weaknesses
and
failures. We thank you for all the joys of our life and its sorrows too,
for our
offenses as your beloved priests, for our friends, family and
relatives.
O Lord, we thank you for having lived, suffered, died and
resurrected for us.
We thank you for your love. Amen.
Magnificat/Benedictus (From the Liturgy of the Hours)

Intercessions: (May be taken from the Liturgy of the Hours or the following)
Presider: We offer our petitions to God our Father our needs especially the
ones
that make us worthy. We pray:

Lord, hear our prayer.

 1. For the Church dear to us, that the Lord may continuously guide her
as she journeys along the path of renewal. Help all of us who
constitute the Church to strengthen our love for her. Let us pray to
the Lord.
2. For all of us who want to follow Jesus the Lord, that we may live the
Gospel as to make it visible and tangible. Let us pray to the Lord.
3. For all of us, that the Lord may give us the courage to take the
Gospel seriously and to live in closer union with Jesus. Let us pray to
the Lord.

Presider: Keep calling us Lord, but give us also the strength to respond to
your call by the power of Jesus Christ our Lord.

℟: Amen.

Presider: With sincere gratitude for your love, we now sing the prayer,
which have taught, for our Dear Father who sent you to lead us to Him.

Lord’s Prayer

Presider: Let us pray…

Loving Father, your love has enabled us to embrace the Gospel of
Love that your Son has proclaimed. May we always be guided by
the Spirit in all our efforts to give witness to the Love that your
Son has revealed. Make us always your worthy priests. Lead us
along the path of faith, hope and love. May we remain as true
instruments of peace and unity in the Church and the world.
These we ask through Christ our Lord.

℟: Amen.

Benediction:
Toward the end of the exposition the priest or deacon goes to the altar, genuflects,
and kneels. Then a hymn or other Eucharistic song (e.g. Adoro te, etc.) is sung. In
many places, it is customary to sing the hymn Tantum ergo.

Meanwhile the minister, while kneeling, incenses the sacrament if the exposition
has taken place with the monstrance. Afterward the minister rises and sings or
says:
V. Panem de cælo præstitísti eis. (Allelúia.)
R. Omne delectaméntum in se habéntem. (Allelúia.)

Orémus,
Deus, qui nobis sub Sacraménto mirábili
passiónis tuæ memóriam reliquísti:
tríbue, quaésumus,
Tantum ergo Sacraméntum Genitóri, Genitóque
ita nos córporis et sánguinis tui sacra mystéria venerári;
Venerémur cérnui Laus et jubilátio,
ut redemptiónis tuæ fructum in nobis júgiter sentiámus.
Et antíquum documéntum Salus, honor, virtus quoque
Qui vivis et regnas in saécula sæculórum.
Novo cedat rítui: Sit et benedíctio:
℟: Amen.
Præstet fides supleméntum Procedénti ab utróque
Sensuum
EUCHARISTIC deféctui.
BLESSING Compar sit laudátio.
After the prayer, the priest or deacon puts on the humeralAmen.
veil, genuflects, and
takes the monstrance or ciborium. He makes the sign of the cross over the people
with the monstrance or ciborium, in silence. After the celebrant has placed the
monstrance in the altar, the divine praises may be said or sung while the celebrant
remains kneeling.

The Divine Praises

Blessed be God.
Blessed be his Holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ true God and true Man.
Blessed be the Name of Jesus.
Blessed be his most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be his most Precious Blood.
Blessed be Jesus in the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy.
Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception.
Blessed be her glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.
Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste spouse.
Blessed be God in his angels and in his saints.
Amen.

At this moment the pious custom of reciting the Prayer of Reparation to Eucharistic
Heart of Jesus may be observed.
Presider: May the Heart of Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament be
praised, adored and
loved with grateful affection at every moment in all the
tabernacles of the
world, now until the end of time.

℟: Amen.
Reposition
After the blessing the priest or deacon who gave the blessing, or another priest or
deacon, replaces the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle and genuflects.
Meanwhile the people may sing or say an acclamation, and the minister then
leaves.
 RITE FOR RECONCILIATION OF SEVERAL PENITENTS WITH
INDIVIDUAL CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION

Introductory Rites
SONG

GREETING
After the song the priest greets the congregation:

Presider: Grace, mercy, and peace be with you

from God the Father
and Christ Jesus our Savior.
℟: And also with you.

Then the priest or another minister speaks briefly about the importance and
purpose of the celebration and the order of the service.

OPENING PRAYER
The priest invites all to pray, using these similar words:
Brothers, God calls us to conversion; let us therefore ask
him for the grace of sincere repentance.

All pray in silence for a brief period. Then the priest sings or says the prayer.

Lord,
hear the prayers of those who call on you,
forgive the sins of those who confess to you,
and in your merciful love
give us your pardon and your peace.
We ask this through Christ our Lord
℟: Amen.
CELEBRATION OF THE WORD OF GOD
 FIRST READING Deut. 5:3-1, 6-7, 11-
12, 16-21a; 6:4-6

A reading from the book of Deuteronomy

Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O

Israel, the statutes and decrees which I proclaim in your hearing
this day, that you may learn them and take care to observe them.
The LORD, our God, made a covenant with us at Horeb; not with
our fathers did he make this covenant, but with us, all of us who
are alive here this day. He said: “‘I, the LORD, am your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place is slavery. You
shall not take the name of the LORD, your God, in vain. For the
LORD will not leave unpunished him who takes his name in vain.
“’Take care to keep holy the sabbath day as the LORD, your God,
commanded you. “’Honor your Father and your mother, as the
LORD, your God, has commanded you, that you may have a long
life and prosperity in the land which the LORD, your God, is giving
you. “’You shall not kill. “’You shall not commit adultery. “’You
shall not steal. “’You shall not bear dishonest witness against
your neighbor. “’You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.’ “Hear,
O Israel! The LORD is our God, The LORD alone! Therefore, you shall
love the LORD, your God, with all your heart, and with all your
soul, and with all your strength. Take to heart these words which
I enjoin on you today.”

The word of the Lord.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM

Listen and have pity, Lord, because you are merciful.

Justice is with the Lord, our God; and we today are flushed with
shame, that we have sinned in the Lord’s sight and disobeyed
him. ℟

We have neither heeded the voice of the Lord, our God, nor
followed the precepts which the Lord set before us. We have
been disobedient to the Lord, our God, and only too ready to
disregard his voice. ℟

We did not heed the voice of the Lord, our God, but each one of us went off after the
devices of our own wicked hearts, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, our God. ℟

GOSPEL Jn 13:34-35; 15:10-13

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John

Jesus said to his Apostles: “I give you a new commandment:

love one another. As I have loved you, so you also love one
another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you
have love for one another. If you keep my commandments, you
will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s
commandments and remain in his love. I have told you this so
that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete. This
is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has
greater love that this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

The Gospel of the Lord.

Homily

Examination of Conscience

RITE OF CONCILIATION

GENERAL CONFESSION OF SINS

My brothers, confess our sins and pray for each other, that you
may be healed.

All say:
I confess to almighty God, and to you, my brothers,
that I have sinned through my own fault
in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done,
and in what I have failed to do;
and I ask blessed Mary, ever Virgin, all the angels and saints,
and you my brothers, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

Minister:
The Lord is merciful. He makes us clean of heart and leads
us out into his
freedom when we acknowledge our guilt. Let us ask him to
forgive us and
bind up the wounds inflicted by our sins.

Give us the grace of true repentance.

 ℟: We pray you, hear us.
Pardon your servants and release them from the debt of sin.
℟: We pray you, hear us.
Forgive your children who confess their sins, and restore
them to full communion with your Church.
℟: We pray you, hear us.

Renew the glory of baptism in those who have lost it by sin.

℟: We pray you, hear us.
Welcome them to your altar, and renew their spirit with the
hope of eternal glory.
℟: We pray you, hear us.
Keep them faithful to your sacraments and loyal in your
service.
℟: We pray you, hear us.
Renew your love in their hearts, and make them bear
witness to it in their daily lives.
℟: We pray you, hear us.
Keep them always obedient to your commandments and
protect within them your gift of eternal life.
℟: We pray you, hear us.

Minister:
Let us now pray to God our Father in the words Christ gave
us, and ask him
for his forgiveness and protection from all evil.

All say together:

Our Father…
 The priest concludes:
Lord,
draw near to your servants
who in the presence of your Church
confess that they are sinners.
Through the ministry of the Church
free them from all sin
so that renewed in spirit
they may give you thankful praise.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
℟: Amen.

INDIVIDUAL CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION

PROCLAMATION OF PRAISE OF GOD’S MERCY