{"id":26451,"date":"2011-03-15T22:36:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T22:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/theanchoress\/?p=26451"},"modified":"2017-03-08T23:22:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:22:02","slug":"the-constant-reality-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2011\/03\/15\/the-constant-reality-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"The Constant Reality of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Sister Briege McKenna<\/strong> likes to tell the story of King Badouin of Belgium, who remarked that sitting before the Blessed Sacrament was like sitting in the sun; nothing is required of you but to come out of the shade, and you only feel the strength of its effects, later.<\/p>\n

This is Truth<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n \nThe Cardinal Newman Society is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adorationu.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">promoting Eucharistic Adoration<\/a><\/strong> to high school and college students \u2014 people who can very much benefit from some quiet, focused one-on-one time with His Majesty.<\/p>\nWe can all benefit from spending time in Adoration, of course, but it is especially important for our youth, who are pulled in so many directions, and offered so many distractions that disorientation is a genuine problem; when we become disoriented, we get lost. In that respect you might call an hour at Adoration, an hour facing True North \u2013 an aid to becoming re-oriented and re-focused.<\/p>\nAdoration has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/theanchoress\/2010\/06\/30\/eucharistic-adoration-is-life-changing\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">changed my life<\/a>.<\/strong> It truly is as subtly powerful as a sunbath \u2013 only you get warmth, and singed, by the Son.<\/p>\nRelated: \n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/theanchoress\/2006\/07\/16\/adoratoin-and-the-mist-the-veil\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Adoration, the Mist, the Veil<\/a> \n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/theanchoress\/2010\/10\/22\/fr-barron-on-eucharistic-adoration\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Fr. Barron on Adoration<\/a> \n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/theanchoress\/2011\/02\/16\/lenten-reading-jesus-and-jewish-roots-of-the-eucharist\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Jewish Roots of the Eucharist<\/a> \n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/theanchoress\/2005\/04\/17\/do-you-know-where-the-greatest-place-to-be-is\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Greatest Place to Be<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sister Briege McKenna likes to tell the story of King Badouin of Belgium, who remarked that sitting before the Blessed Sacrament was like sitting in the sun; nothing is required of you but to come out of the shade, and you only feel the strength of its effects, later. 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