Eucharistic Adoration: Holy Hour Meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ

by Charles M. Murphy, William Levada (Foreword by)

Overview

As a creative prayer compendium, Eucharistic Adoration: Holy Hour Meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ invites readers to spend a holy hour in eucharistic adoration while meditating on the seven last words of Jesus and shows them how to do it.

Like many devotions that fell out of favor after the Second Vatican Council, eucharistic adoration has seen swelling popularity in recent years. Msgr. Charles Murphy, author of the acclaimed The Spirituality of Fasting, reintroduces this practice for today. Offering a simple guide for those new to eucharistic devotion, he brings together insightful holy hour meditations on the seven last words of Jesus with the profiles of seven modern Christians known for their devotion to the eucharist, including Simone Weil, Edith Stein, Dorothy Day, Blessed John XXIII, Blessed John Paul II, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, and St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594713521
Publisher:	Ave Maria Press
Publication date:	10/08/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Monsignor Charles M. Murphy is the director of the permanent diaconate for the Diocese of Portland, Maine. He is the author of a number of scholarly articles and several books, including The Spirituality of Fasting, At Home on the Earth, Wallace Stevens: A Spiritual Poet in a Secular Age, and Belonging to God. Murphy is the former academic dean and rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome and served as part of the editorial group working in Italy under Cardinal Ratzinger on the third draft of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which became the fourth and final version.

Murphy serves as consultant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops committee on catechetics, reviewing materials for conformity with the Catechism. He served as chair of the editorial committee that produced the pastoral letter on environmental issues by the Bishops of the Boston Province and he served as a consultant to the USCCB for their statement on global warming. He has been the pastor of four parishes in Maine and has served his diocese in ecumenical and educational capacities. Murphy holds a doctorate in sacred theology from the Gregorian University, a master’s degree in education from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s degree in classics from the College of the Holy Cross.
Cardinal William Joseph Levada served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2005 to 2012.

Table of Contents

Foreword Cardinal William Levada ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Gazing upon Our Eucharistic Lord 1

First Word: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" 12

Witness: Simone Weil 20

Second Word: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." 28

Witness: St. Teresa Blessed by the Cross (Edith Stein) 33

Third Word: "Today you will be with me in paradise." 42

Witness: Dorothy Day 46

Fourth Word: "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." 52

Witness: Blessed John XXIII 57

Fifth Word: "Woman, this is your son. Son, this is your mother." 64

Witness: Blessed John Paul II 69

Sixth Word: "I thirst." 74

Witness: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta 79

Seventh Word: "It is finished." 86

Witness: St. Margaret Mary Alacoque 90

Hymns of the Passion and the Eucharist 95

Notes 108