We need, in the Church today, to recapture devotion to the real and abiding presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Outside Mass that presence continues and is celebrated through devotion and prayer before the Blessed Sacrament of the altar. We need to rediscover it. The Holy Father wrote in 1980: “Jesus awaits us in this Sacrament of love. Let us not refuse the time to go to meet him in adoration, in contemplation, full of faith, and open to making amends for the serious offences and crimes of the world. Let our adoration never cease.’
Basil Cardinal Hume, The Mystery of the Incarnation, pp. 118-119