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This supplement to Today’s Liturgy is designed to help those who are preparing celebrations of Eucharistic Adoration. There is a lot of flexibility built into the rites, but at the same time there are rules that we need to follow. In addition, there is a need for materials that can be used in reflection and prayer. So here at OCP we hope to help with this aspect of parish life.

Saints of the Blessed Sacrament

Each issue of Adore! will have a reflection on a saint who helped to promote adoration. In this issue, we focus on Juliana of Liege (or of Cornillon) (1193-1258)

That Belgian-born Saint Juliana had such a deep love of the presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament is a bit amazing. Orphaned at a young age, and apparently having her only sibling die sometime after that, being twice exiled from her own convent — none of this would lead us to think that she would have felt the love of Christ. And yet, perhaps because of the trials of her life, Saint Juliana worked tirelessly to have the Church establish a feast in honor of the Blessed Sacrament.

Various sources claim her as a Religious of either the Premonstratensian or Cistercian order. The Roman Marty-rology, however, lists her as an Augustinian. She became abbess of what was likely a double house, with a com-munity of men and a separate community of women in the same complex. Long before then, she had a vision of the moon with a dark spot on it. It took some time before she was given to know the meaning of the vision, that the bright moon was the yearly cycle of feasts, and that the dark spot was a missing feast, a feast in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. When she finally came to understand this, her life’s work was set. Especially after she became abbess, she worked with anyone who would listen to try to establish a feast in honor of the Blessed Sacrament.

Eventually Robert of Thourotte, the bishop of Liège, gave permission for the feast, and Jacques Pantaleon, the archdeacon (a powerful office at the time), remembered this when he became Pope Urban IV. It was Urban who created the feast in the last year of his life, but Saint Juliana had not lived to see it.

Here, from the beautiful 2006 study, The Feast of Corpus Christi (© 2006, Penn State University Press, edit-ed by Barbara R. Walters, Vincent Corrigan, and Peter T. Ricketts), are three antiphons for evening prayer (vespers), part of the office for the feast that she composed with her confessor, a certain Canon John:

Food for souls the wisdom of God has offered to us for food the flesh he has assumed so that through the food for our humanity he might invite us to taste of his divinity.

Prescribing for his disciples an appropriate inheritance, he entrusted to them a memorial saying, “Do this in memory of me.”

Christ presents himself entirely to us for food, so that, just as his divinity restores us when we partake him with our hearts, so his humanity might restore us when we partake him with our mouths.

Excerpt from the book Adoration Basics (ocp.org/adoration-basics) © 2019 OCP. All rights reserved.

Adore! Your Guide to Prayer with the

Blessed Sacrament (Volume 1, Number 1)

A Song for the Season: “Exposition/O Saving Victim”

This contemporary anthem, with English texts based on the Latin chants “Attende, Domine” and “O Salutaris,” is ideal for Communion or Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The melodic movement of the verses builds as we eagerly look toward our own salvation in heaven. The anthemic, expressive refrain is easily sung by the assembly. Layering the parts on the bridge creates a natural progression to the return to the refrain. This setting beautifully combines the ancient and the new.

Curtis Stephan and Steve Angrisano have collab-orated to bring new life to these traditional texts. These two composers are friends and neighbors. The two both have a deep love of Eucharistic Ex-position, and of the music tradition associated with Adoration. “I grew up with a lot of these old hymns that have such richness to them….So taking some of the words and making them a contemporary song so that worship leaders can use them is really awesome.” Angrisano agreed: “There are a lot of ending songs for Adoration...there is a certain power, a certain gravitas to the moment. As we were writing it I thought that this would be a great way to begin Adoration.” The chorus is “O Saving Victim,” from Saint Thomas Aquinas. The verses are from “Attende Domine (Draw Near to Us O Lord),” and the idea is to exalt God, Christ our Victor. To have God be so close to us in and an intimate part of our lives is reflected in the Eucharist and in this song.

MP3: 30139132 Accompaniment Package: 30141741 Octavo: 30141003 (print) 30141004 (download)Guitar/Vocal Lead Sheet 30139147 See Breaking Bread, Choose Christ, Music Issue

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Program Booklet (Pages 3-6)Print double-sided on the short edge, will create

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liana

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me.’

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store

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hum

anity

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store

us w

hen

we p

arta

ke h

im w

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ur m

outh

s.”

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mod

y

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per

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lent p

raye

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follo

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men

t.