Parish Resources

Resources for Adoration with Children

• Children of Hope 
• Guided Children's Adoration
• Look to Him and Be Radiant
• Teaching Catholic Kids
• Catechist's Journey
• Come to Jesus, A Kid’s Book for Eucharistic Adoration
• Teaching Kids About Transubstantiation

Adult Faith Formation on the Eucharist

• The Eucharist from Word on Fire
• Spiritual Exercises for the Year of the Eucharist from the Oblates of the Virgin Mary
• The Eucharist in Scripture from the St. Paul Center
• I Am the Bread of Life from Loyola Press
• Eucharist: Discovering the Mass in the Bible from The Augustine Institute
• The Sacraments: Discovering the Treasures of Divine Life from St. Benedict Press
• A Biblical Walk through the Mass from Ascension Press
• The Mass Explained App
• Daughters of St. Paul Adoration Guide

Other Recommended Parish Intiatives

1. Appoint a parish coordinator who can promote parish and diocesan events in the parish and have contact with the diocese
2. Eucharistic Missionaries – Each parish can select “missionaries” from among the parishioners, perhaps Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion who can commit to weekly prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, participation in Year of Eucharist events, and initiating parish programs for the Year of the Eucharist
3. Eucharistic Adoration during “Welcome Home” Reconciliation on Mondays in Lent
4. Promote Eucharistic Adoration and Catechesis for parishioners, schools, religious education programs
5. Invite the Office of Worship to offer formation for Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion and Readers
6. Promote social media graphics and messages centered on the Eucharist
7. Consider offering Eucharistic processions on special occasions/feast days throughout the year
8. Promote, livestream, and take pictures, where possible, of your parish initiatives for the Eucharistic Revival.
9. Add an intention in the Universal Prayer for a renewed Eucharistic life
10. Consider ways to invite those who may not be connected to the parish to get to know the community and to get to know more about Jesus Christ.

"The Eucharist is 'the source and summit of the Christian life.' 'The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.'" - Catechism of the Catholic Church 1324

USCCB on the Eucharist

• https://www.usccb.org/eucharist
• Sophia SketchPad: The Eucharist Video
• The Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of the Eucharist: Basic Questions and Answers
• An Interview on the Doctrine of Transubstantiation
• Bishop Barron on the Real Presence
• Select documents and resources on the Church’s teaching: Study, pray, and ask the question, Lord, how are you calling me to grow and to act on your truth?
  • Believing, celebrating, and living the mystery of the Eucharist: In Pope Benedict XVI’s Sacramentum Caritatis(2007), read, reflect, and pray about how the Eucharist is a mystery to be believed, to be celebrated, and to be lived.
  • The Church draws her life from the Eucharist: In St. John Paul II’s last encyclical letter on the Eucharist and the Church, Ecclesia de Eucharistia(2003), read, reflect, and pray about how central the mystery of the Eucharist is to the very life of the Church and to our lives as disciples.
  • Reclaim Sunday as the Lord’s Day and a day of rest, prayer, and fellowship: In St. John Paul II’s Dies Domini(1998), read, reflect, and pray about the gift of Sunday as the day of all days and how we can live out this day in the way the Lord is calling us.
  • The Eucharist commits us to the poor: The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that the Eucharist leads us to serve and be close to the poor and most vulnerable among us, as Pope Francis continues to emphasize admirably. Read, reflect, and pray about the gift and challenge of Catholic social teaching.