The nature of the Eucharist calls Catholics to adoration, Cardinal Vincent Nichols has said.
In his pastoral letter for Corpus Christi, cited the Gospel and wrote that the act of adoration allows Catholics to see God in the flesh.
“In my experience,” he wrote, “it takes time spent in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, the Body and Blood of the Lord there in front of our eyes, before we realise that in his far depths our Godhead’s majesty is softly shining.”
Cardinal Nichols also mentioned the parish of Corpus Christi, located in Covent Garden. He wrote that the church’s dedication to the Eucharist – which was the first in England since the Reformation to do so – signifies the importance of the Sacrament.
