Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

"Will you come and spend an hour with Me?”

Holy Martyrs, Falmouth
Monday 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm

St. Jude, Freeport
Friday 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM (beginning August 5th, 2022)

Sacred Heart, Yarmouth
Saturday 9:00 AM- 10:00 AM

St Gregory, Gray
Friday 8:30 am to 9:30 am
Contact Cindy Carrier at 272-5943 or pothe@portlanddiocese.org

Adoration is a sign of devotion to and worship of Jesus who is present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, in the Eucharist. Spending time with the Eucharistic Presence of our Lord is a continuation of the Celebration of the Eucharist at mass.

You can come and spend as much time with the Eucharistic Presence of our Lord as you like during these hours. Many adorers spend this time in prayer or just sitting in the Lord’s presence. It is perfectly acceptable to bring your Bible or other spiritual reading. In the back of the chapel there are prayer books for Eucharistic Adoration.

Eucharistic Guardians provide this ministry by committing to an hour of Adoration time each week (on hold during this period of shorter adoration hours). We are always welcoming new adorers. Please complete this form if you are interested. 

The Handbook of Prayer by Fr. Charles Belmonte said that a simple way of doing the visit to the Blessed Sacrament is to pray 3 Our Fathers, 3 Hail Marys and 3 Glory Be's, and ended with a Spiritual Communion, as for example, "I wish, Lord, to receive You with the purity, humility and devotion, with which Your Most Holy Mother received You, with the spirit and fervor of the saints."

Through the centuries, saints have also composed prayers for making visits to the Blessed Sacrament.

Short Visit to the Blessed Sacrament By Blessed John Henry Newman

I place myself in the presence of Him, in whose Incarnate Presence I am before I place myself there.

I adore You, O my Savior, present here as God and Man, in Soul and Body, in true Flesh and Blood.

I acknowledge and confess that I kneel before the Sacred Humanity, which was conceived in Mary’s womb, and lay in Mary’s bosom; which grew up to man’s estate, and by the Sea of Galilee called the Twelve, wrought miracles, and spoke words of wisdom and peace; which in due season hung on the cross, lay in the tomb, rose from the dead, and now reigns in heaven.

I praise and bless, and give myself wholly to Him, Who is the true Bread of my soul, and my everlasting joy.

Before the Blessed Sacrament Prayer from the Fátima Children

O most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of sinners.

Eucharistic celebrations of any nature are sometimes initiated with the first four or at least the first stanza of the Pange lingua hymn, and often concluded with the Tantum ergo(being the other two stanzas of the same hymn), or at the least the versicle and oration attached to the Tantum ergo (see the article). These hymns and orations are from the Daily Office for Corpus Christi, composed by St. Thomas Aquinas.