Pro-Life Groups Bring Eucharist to Front Lines

by Patti Maguire Armstrong, Register correspondent Monday, Jan 09, 2012 11:10 AM

The Eucharist is being used more and more as a way to save unborn children and convert those who favor abortion.

As the nation marks the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down most laws against abortion, adoration chapels across the country are being set up next to abortion businesses. It’s a growing movement that Father Steve Imbarrato, chaplain of Holy Innocents Chapel in Albuquerque, N.M., says he hopes will increase.

“I want to promote Eucharistic adoration to fight abortion,” Father Imbarrato said. As the director for Project Life, he said everything he does to promote life involves the Eucharist. “The chapel is the spiritual center of all our pro-life work,” he stated.

By setting up a Eucharistic chapel, Jesus has a close, permanent presence right next to the enemy. “Our Lord has been across the street from the Planned Parenthood clinic here for almost 12 years,” Father Imbarrato said.

On March 9, 2011, Christ the King Parish in Daphne, Alabama will honor Jesus and Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament will begin without end. Over 500 committed adorers from Saint Lawrence Parish, Shrine of the Holy Cross, and Christ the King have answered “yes”  to serve as guardians of the Blessed Sacrament  24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  All 168 hours of the week have a committed adorer and many hours have 6-8 adorers each. This beautiful outpouring of faith and love will enable everyone the opportunity to visit with Jesus any time during the day or night.  Christ the King’s chapel in Daphne will be the only perpetual adoration chapel south of Montgomery and east of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Below is a photo of the final meeting held on Tuesday, February 22nd with all Adorers in preparation for the start of perpetual adoration.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Pope John Paul II were living examples of the fruits of Eucharistic Adoration. No matter how busy they were or how many important people they had to see, they made sure that they spent time with the most important Person of all: Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Every day they spent 2 to 3 hours in His Eucharistic Presence, and they told the whole world that this is where they got all their energy to do so much for God and His people. "The Church and the world have a great need for Eucharistic worship. Jesus awaits us in this Sacrament of Love. Let us not refuse the time to go to meet Him in Adoration, in contemplation full of faith, and open to making amends for the serious offenses and crimes of the world. Let our Adoration never cease." Pope John Paul II

Perpetual Adoration is the solution to deepen your relationship with Jesus. Just as you would with any human friend or your spouse, you have to make a concerted effort to get to know Him better. You have to spend time with Him, and speak with Him often. In other words, you need to spend time in prayer.

Eucharistic Adoration is the best way we have on this earth to spend a long time in quiet conversation with Jesus. You'll recall that just before Jesus physically left the apostles and ascended to the Father, he reassured them, "And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age." (Matthew 28:20) This statement is fulfilled in the reality of Jesus' Real Presence in the Eucharist, in the hands of the priest at Mass each day, reserved in the tabernacles in the heart of our churches, and right before our very eyes in Eucharistic Adoration.