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Important Information for Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration
Organisational Structure:
Co-Ordinator: Jane 0435 410 381
Division Leaders:
Early Morning: 12am to 6am - Jane 0435 410 381
Morning: 6am to 12pm - Anne 9444 8224, 0422 522 959
Afternoon: 12pm to 6pm - Jeff o419 190 146
Evening: 6pm to 12am - Elizabeth 9387 6349, 0468 644 063
Captains:
There are 12 Captains, 3 in each Division. They are responsible for looking after a 2 hour block on the Roster, called a prayer team.
Prayer Team:
A Prayer Team consists of all the Guardians who are on the roster during the same two-hour timeslot over the week, for example 12midnight -2am.
The Prayer Team members work together to ensure that all the hours across the week during their two-hour timeslot are always covered.
Whenever there is a Vacant Hour in their two-hour timeslot, members of the Prayer Team may take it in turns to cover the Hour until a permanent Guardian is found. Therefore, Prayer Team members have a sense of ownership of their Perpetual Adoration Program.
Prayer teams are encouraged to catch up socially with their Captain, 3 – 4 times a year.
Guardian Role:
Each person who does a Holy Hour is called a Guardian. They ensure that, during their rostered Holy Hour, Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is never unguarded or left alone.
A Guardian is part of a Prayer Team. Prayer Teams consist of the Captain and their Guardians. For example, the Captain for 12midnight to 2am and all Guardians who have a Holy Hour in the same 2-hour block, 12midnight to 2am, are one Prayer Team.
The following simple responsibilities for Guardians include;
1. Arrive at least 5 mins early and ensure that you sign in and out of the Sign-in-Folder.
2. Be aware of the Chapel’s security arrangements. For example, there is a door access code when entering.
3. When you ask someone to substitute for you, please give them as much advance notice as possible
4. Each Guardian should try to be available as a ‘Substitute’ on the
‘Substitute List’ Please inform the Coordinator of times you are available.
5. Inform your Coordinator of any changes to your contact details (Phone number and email).
6. Each Guardian is required to have a copy of this sheet ‘Guardian Role’ and a copy of the roster for your Division and a copy of the Substitute List. Contact Jane for copies to be emailed to you.
​Other online sources of Eucharistic Adoration which can be viewed at any time of the day.
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What is Eucharistic Adoration?
Understood merely, Eucharistic Adoration is adoring or honouring the Eucharistic Presence of Christ. In a broader sense, it involves "the contemplation of the Mystery of Christ truly present before us".
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During Eucharistic Adoration, we "watch and wait", we remain "silent" in His Presence and open ourselves to His Graces which flow from the Eucharist ... By worshipping the Eucharistic Jesus, we become what God wants us to be! Like a magnet, The Lord draws us to Himself and gently transforms us.
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In its fullest essence, Eucharistic Adoration is "God and Man reaching out to each other, at the same time!"​
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The Eucharist is Jesus indeed present - Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity!
At the moment of Consecration, during the Mass, the "gifts" of bread and wine are transformed (transubstantiated) into the actual Body and Blood of Christ, at the Altar. This means that they are not only spiritually transformed but instead are actually (substantially) changed into the Body and Blood of Christ. The elements retain the appearance of bread and wine but are indeed the actual Body and Blood of Christ. This is what is meant by Real Presence: the actual, physical presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.
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