Adoration with no end

24-hour Eucharistic ritual returns to Boston

The adorers sit in silence before the wafer.

Hour after hour, day after day, they take part in an unusual Catholic ritual that appears to be making a modest comeback - a quest for silence in a noisy life, a desire to be part of a team, a hunger to feel closer to God.

The ritual, called perpetual adoration, is, at one level, strikingly simple: around-the-clock, people take turns sitting in a chapel in the presence of a consecrated wafer. But at another level, the ritual reflects an embrace of the teaching of Catholicism that many find hardest to understand: the belief that, during Mass, bread and wine are literally transformed into the body and blood of Jesus.

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley will preside at a Mass to celebrate the relaunch of perpetual adoration at the shrine.

OK - could you tell me, as a non-Catholic teaching in a Catholic school, what is wrong with the term ‘wafer’ in this case. I hear it quite regularly, along with ‘host’ and if there is a faux pas to be avoided I’d like to know.

5 posted on 08/16/2009 7:52:17 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)

To me, wafer could be any kind of cracker.

This is a consecrated host made of unleavened bread. Two main differences.

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This is a consecrated host made of unleavened bread.

A consecrated host is no longer bread, at least to the Catholic/Orthodox. The term wafer, as in communion wafer, is not inherently disrespectful. However, after consecration, the term host is more appropriate. Host is derived from the Latin: hostia, which means sacrifice.

Our parish has had perpetual Eucharistic Adoration for some time now.

Our current pastor reinstated it when he arrived here in 1991.

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