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EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

THROUGH THE LITURGICAL YEAR

The Most Holy Trinity, Year A

May 31, 2026

TRINITY SUNDAY, YEAR A

“JESUS SAVIOR: His Father So Loved the World”

 

 

(+) In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

(A moment of silence)

 

SONG: A suitable Eucharistic hymn or any other appropriate song may be sung.

  

INTRODUCTION

(Cf. Francis McGowan in Meditations on the Sunday Gospels, Year A, ed. John Rotelle, New York: New City Press, 1995, p. 72-73)

            We owe the Blessed Trinity the homage of grateful love … What happiness was breathed into our souls! The Father adopted each one of us as his child, the Son embraced us as his brother, and the Holy Spirit chose us for his temple. Could the triune God have done more for us? … Yes, we have abundant reason to be thankful to the Holy Trinity for its love and mercy toward us; we have forcible reason to love and honor the ever-blessed Three and to offer them the best homage and sincerest worship of our lowly hearts.

 

SILENT ADORATION AND PRAYER

OPENING PRAYER

Leader: Let us pray to our God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

(Silent prayer) 

O God, we praise you:

Father all-powerful, Christ Lord and Savior, Spirit of love.

You reveal yourself in the depths of our being,

drawing us to share in your love.

One God, three Persons,

be near to the people formed in your image,

close to the world your love brings to life.

We ask you this, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,

one God, true and living, forever and ever.

Assembly: Amen.

Part I

JESUS MASTER TRUTH

Listening to the Word

 

GOSPEL READING: Jn 3:16-18

 

POINTS FOR REFLECTION

The Paschal Mystery is the basis of Trinitarian revelation. From the experience of the Paschal Mystery, the Church has come to a profound understanding that the one God, in his most intimate nature, is Trinitarian: as a loving Creator Father, the source of redemption; as the obedient Son who accomplished the Father’s saving plan by his death on the cross; and as the Spirit of love, proceeding from the Father and the Son, who witnesses to our being God’s children and enables us to call him, “Abba, Father”.

Aelred Rosser remarks: “God’s self-revelation as a trinity of persons came very gradually through the centuries. God has not changed, of course, but our limited understanding of God’s nature has continually developed thanks to God’s grace. The revelation came most fully, we Christians believe, in Jesus, in whose life and death we glimpse enough to know that God is all-good, all-loving and has shown us how to be creatures worthy of our Creator.”

 

SONG: Any suitable hymn of praise or an invocation to the Holy Spirit may be sung.

  

Part II

JESUS MASTER WAY

Confrontation with the Word

 

POINTS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF THE HEART

Leader: To God the Father, belongs love; the grace of this love is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, our Savior; the power of the Holy Spirit brings us together in fellowship and communion with the divine love. Filed with the mystery of love of the Most Blessed Trinity, let us now examine our hearts.

1. What is our personal response to this magnanimous, compassionate and gracious divine act: “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life” (Jn 3:16)?

2. How do we open our hearts to receive the following Trinitarian benediction: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you” (II Cor 13:13)?

3. Is our life a Trinitarian doxology, “Glory to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit”?

 

PRAYER TO THE HOLY TRINITY

(A prayer composed by Blessed James Alberione) 

Leader: Divine Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, present and active in the Church and in the depths of my soul, I adore you, I thank you, I love you! And through the hands of Mary most holy, my mother, I offer, give and consecrate myself entirely to you for life and for eternity.

Assembly: To you, heavenly Father, I offer, give and consecrate myself as your son/daughter. To you, Jesus Master, I offer, give and consecrate myself as your brother/sister and disciple. To you, Holy Spirit, I offer, give and consecrate myself as a “living temple” to be consecrated and sanctified.

Leader: Mary, Mother of the Church and my Mother, who dwells in the presence of the Blessed Trinity …

Assembly: Teach me to live through the liturgy and the sacraments, in ever more intimate union with the three divine Persons, so that my whole life may be a “glory to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit”. Amen.

 

SONG: Any suitable song may be sung.

 

Part III

JESUS LIFE

Acting upon the Word

 

PERSONAL PRAYER 

CONTEMPLATING WITH MARY THE FACE OF CHRIST: The Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary may be prayed in part or in full.

 

THE WAY OF SOLIDARITY: PRAYER OF INTERCESSION 

Leader: God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that the world might be saved through him. United in the love of the Father and the Son, by the power of the Holy Spirit, we turn to the triune God in prayer and say:

(R.) LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER.

1. For the Holy Father’s General Intention for this month of May: That everyone might have food. Let us pray that everyone, from large producers to small consumers, be committed to avoid wasting food and to ensure that everyone has access to quality food. We pray: (R.)

2. For the sick and the homeless, for the unemployed seeking honest and dignified work that would give them a just recompense, and for those whose lives are shattered with pain and sorrow, we pray:  (R.)

3. For those who wish to give glory to the Blessed Trinity by their lives of giving and sharing, and by their compassionate stance for the poor and the weak, we pray: (R.)

4. For those who incarnate in their lives “the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit” and for those who endeavor to give glory to the triune God, we pray: (R.)

5. For people persecuted for the sake of faith and justice that they may find strength and consolation in the Holy Spirit; we pray: (R.)

(Other prayers may be added.)

 

THE LORD’S PRAYER

 

CONCLUDING PRAYER

Leader: Father,

you sent your Word to bring us truth

and your Spirit to make us holy.

Through them we come to know the mystery of your life.

Help us to worship you,

one God in three Persons,

by proclaiming and living our faith in you.

Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,

one God forever and ever.

Assembly: Amen.

 

FINAL SONG: Any suitable Eucharistic hymn or song of praise may be sung.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

THROUGH THE LITURGICAL YEAR

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), Year A

June 7, 2026

“JESUS SAVIOR: His Body Is True Food … His Blood Is True Drink”

 

 

(+) In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

(A moment of silence)

 

SONG: A suitable Eucharistic hymn or any other appropriate song may be sung.

 

WORDS OF POPE JOHN PAUL II

Jesus alone can satisfy humanity’s hunger for love and thirst for justice; he alone makes it possible for every human person to share in eternal life: “I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever” (Jn 6:51).

 

SILENT ADORATION AND PRAYER 

OPENING PRAYER

Leader: Let us pray for the willingness to make present in our world

the love of Christ shown to us in the Eucharist.

(Silent prayer)

Lord Jesus Christ,

we worship you living among us

in the sacrament of your body and blood.

May we offer to our Father in heaven

a solemn pledge of undivided love.

May we offer to our brothers and sisters

a life poured out in loving service of that kingdom

where you live with the Father and the Holy Spirit,

one God forever and ever.

Assembly: Amen.

  

Part I

JESUS MASTER TRUTH

Listening to the Word

 

GOSPEL READING: Jn 6:51-58

POINTS FOR REFLECTION

Today, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. The biblical scholar Eugene Maly gives a profound insight into the meaning of this feast: “As the Christian sees it, death is both dissolution and transformation. As dissolution it is the cessation of physical life and the deterioration of the body no longer sustained by life-giving blood. As transformation it is the ushering of the human spirit into a new kind of life that has been prepared for in the previous existence … In the renewed liturgical rites the emphasis is clearly on death as transformation. The white vestments, the repeated Alleluias, and, again, the homily all express the joy that a new and better existence is now shared by the deceased faithful believer. It may sound strange to be speaking of death on the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. I am doing so only that I might speak all the more forcefully about life … In the Gospel reading for this feast Jesus says, “He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal …” There is no question of Jesus’ meaning, the verb is in the present tense, the communion with Christ in the Eucharist means a sharing here and now in eternal life … Later on in our Sunday reading Jesus says, “… the man who feeds on this bread shall live forever.” Death, therefore, does not destroy this kind of life.”

 

SONG: Any Eucharistic hymn or suitable song of praise may be sung.

 

Part II

JESUS MASTER WAY

Confrontation with the Word

 

POINTS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF THE HEART

Leader: The feast of Corpus Christi is an invitation to contemplate with amazement and gratitude the real and substantial presence of the glorified Christ in the living sacrament of his body and blood. Before his wondrous Eucharistic presence, let us examine our hearts:

1. What is our response to Jesus’ auto-revelation: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever” (Jn 6:51)? What is our response to the gift of the Eucharist offered to us by the Risen Lord Jesus?

2. How do we value the reality of the Eucharist as a sacrament of our perfect incorporation into Christ and his Mystical Body? Do we realize the concrete implication of the Eucharist as a way of solidarity – as a “sign and instrument” not only of intimate union with God, but also of the unity of the whole human race?

3. Do we trust that Mary can guide us to a true Eucharistic faith because she herself has a profound relationship with the Eucharist?

 

PRAYER OF FAITH AND LOVE

(Prayer composed by Blessed Alberione; text of the assembly’s refrain from Prv 9:1,2,5) 

Leader: Jesus, eternal Truth, I believe you are really present in the bread and wine. You are here with your body, blood, soul and divinity. I hear your invitation: “I am the living bread descended from heaven”, “take and eat; this is my body”. I believe, Lord and Master, but strengthen my weak faith.

Assembly: Wisdom has built herself a house. She has prepared her table, has brought forth her wine; and she calls to her children: “Come and eat of my bread and drink of my wine. Come to the feast I prepared for you.”

Leader: Jesus Master, you assure me: “I am the Life”, “whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood will have eternal life”. In baptism and in the sacrament of reconciliation you have communicated to me this life of yours. Now you nourish it by making yourself my food. Take my heart; detach it from the vain things of the world. With all my heart I love you above all things because you are infinite goodness and eternal happiness.

Assembly: Wisdom has built herself a house. She has prepared her table, has brought forth her wine; and she calls to her children: “Come and eat of my bread and drink of my wine. Come to the feast I prepared for you.”

 

SONG: Any suitable song may be sung.

  

Part III

JESUS LIFE

Acting upon the Word

 

PERSONAL PRAYER

CONTEMPLATING WITH MARY THE FACE OF CHRIST: The Mysteries of Light of the Rosary may be prayed in part or in full.

 

THE WAY OF SOLIDARITY: PRAYER OF INTERCESSION 

Leader: Nourished by the bread of life, we tread the way of solidarity and become intercessors for the needs of today’s world. We therefore turn to God in supplication and say:

(R.) LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER.

1. For the Holy Father’s Intention for this month of June: for the values of sport. Let us pray that sports be an instrument of peace, encounter and dialogue among cultures and nations, and that they promote values such as respect, solidarity and personal growth. We pray: (R.)

2. That Mary, “Woman of the Eucharist”, may help us to extol God’s marvelous intervention on behalf of the poor, hungry and the lowly; we pray:  (R.)

3. That the Eucharistic Mystery be celebrated, worshipped, contemplated and lived worthily; we pray:  (R.)

4. That our Eucharistic celebration may be efficaciously expressed in fraternal solicitude to the many forms of poverty present in our world; we pray:  (R.)

5. That we may come to acknowledge and live more fully the reality that the Eucharist is the source and summit of the life of the Church; we pray:  (R.)

(Other prayers may be added.)

 

THE LORD’S PRAYER

CONCLUDING PRAYER

(By Pope John Paul II)

Leader: We adore you, O wonderful Sacrament of the presence

of the One who loved his own “to the end”.

We thank you, O Lord,

who edifies, gathers together and gives life to the Church.

O divine Eucharist,

flame of Christ’s love that burns on the altar of the world,

make the Church, comforted by you,

even more caring in wiping away the tears of suffering

and in sustaining the efforts of all who yearn for justice and peace.

Assembly: Amen.

 

FINAL SONG: Any suitable Eucharistic hymn or song of praise may be sung.

 

 

 

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Prepared by Sr. Mary Margaret Tapang, PDDM

 

 

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