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Rome, Italy, Jun 7, 2012 \/ 05:35 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Pope Benedict XVI says the Second Vatican Council did not reject Eucharistic adoration outside of Mass, including the Corpus Christi procession that he led this evening in Rome.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cOne unilateral interpretation of the Second Vatican Council has penalized this dimension, restricting in practice the Eucharist to the moment of celebration,\u201d the Pope said during his homily for the Feast of Corpus Christi on June 7.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIn this case, the accentuation placed on the celebration of the Eucharist acted to the detriment of adoration as an act of faith and prayer addressed to the Lord Jesus, truly present in the Sacrament of the Altar,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

\tPope Benedict offered an open-air Mass in the piazza outside his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran. The Feast of Corpus Christi commemorates the real presence of Christ\u2019s body and blood in the Eucharist and has been celebrated universally since 1264.<\/p>\n

\tThe Pope told the large outdoor congregation that the way Eucharistic adoration was de-emphasized in the Church was \u201cinfluenced by a certain secularizing mentality of the 1960s and \u201870s\u201d and this had \u201crepercussions for the spiritual life of the faithful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe proposed that limiting one\u2019s relationship with the \u201cEucharistic Jesus\u201d solely to the moment of the Mass risked \u201cemptying his presence in the rest of existential time and space,\u201d including in our daily lives.<\/p>\n

\tThe Pope explained that there is no contradiction or conflict between Christ worshiped in the Mass and Christ adored outside the sacred liturgy, since \u201ccommunion and contemplation cannot be separated, they go together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIn order to truly communicate with another person, I have to know him, I need to know how to remain in silence near him, to listen to him, to look upon him with love,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cTrue love and true friendship,\u201d he continued, \u201clives always in this reciprocity of gazes, of intense eloquent silences, full of respect and of veneration, so that the encounter is lived profoundly, in a personal and not superficial way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIndeed, he proposed that Eucharistic adoration prepares the hearts of both priests and lay people for a more fruitful encounter with Christ in the Holy Mass.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIn the moment of adoration, we are all on the same level, on bended knee before the Sacrament of Love,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\tFollowing tradition, the papal liturgy was followed by a Corpus Christi procession, led by the Pope towards the nearby basilica of St. Mary Major.<\/p>\n

\tWith the sun setting, tens of thousands of pilgrims carried candles and lanterns as they sang Eucharistic hymns and filed in procession behind the Eucharist in the monstrance, carried aloft on the decorated papal float.<\/p>\n

\tThe evening concluded with Benediction outside the basilica, which Pope Benedict led.<\/p>\n

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