Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is growing in Perth. There are several chapels of perpetual Eucharistic Adoration including in Ocean Reef which is now open most weekdays from 9am to 7 or 9pm for Adoration.

In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI wrote an Apostolic Exultation on the Eucharist as the Source and Summit of the Church’s Life and Mission, Sacramentum Caritatis (Sacrament of Charity). In this letter, the Holy Father not only encouraged the setting aside of specific churches and oratories for Perpetual Adoration where possible in highly populated areas but he recommended that children learn how to spend time with Jesus.

“I also recommend that, in their catechetical training, and especially in their preparation for First Holy Communion, children be taught the meaning and the beauty of spending time with Jesus, and helped to cultivate a sense of awe before His presence in the Eucharist,” he wrote in 2005.