I. Adoration of the Eucharist is the peak of creation.
What did John see when taken up to heaven? He discovered worship – pure, undefiled, total worship. All the host of heaven, the saints and angels, bowed down in worship, in wonder and adoration of God. “They fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, ‘Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen’” (Rev. 7:10-12). This too is our experience. Heaven is not some place far off. Heaven is here, in the kingdom where we live. Though our eyes are cloudy and we cannot see, we too stand at the same place as the angels. We too are one with heaven adoring God, for here in the Blessed Sacrament is God, forever and ever.
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