The Blessed Sacrament

Resources for exploring, understanding, and adoring Jesus Christ, truly present in the Blessed Sacrament.

To read the Apostolic Exhortation online, download a digital copy, or order print copies in bulk, click here.

Included here are some books and resources that may assist your meditation on the Holy Eucharist:

  • Catechism of the Catholic Church – The Sacrament of the Eucharist (Section 2, Article 3)
  • Visits to the Blessed Sacrament and the Blessed Virgin Mary – St. Alphonsus Ligouri
  • Eucharistic Meditations – St. John Vianney
  • How to Get More Out of Holy Communion – St. Peter Julian Eymard
  • God is Near Us: The Eucharist, the Heart of Life – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
  • Ecclesia de Eucharistia (On the Eucharist) – St. Pope John Paul II
  • Sacramentum Caritatis: Post Synodal Exhortation on the Eucharist – Pope Benedict XVI
  • Five Loaves and Two Fish: Meditations on the Eucharist – Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen van Thuan
  • The Source of Life: Exploring the Mystery of the Eucharist – Cardinal Christoph Schonborn
  • The Holy Eucharist – Cardinal Francis Arinze
  • The Eucharist: Our Sanctification – Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap.
  • Eucharistic Miracles of the World (Catalogue of the Vatican International Exhibition) – Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke
  • Divine Love Made Flesh: The Holy Eucharist as the Sacrament of Charity – Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke
  • Consuming the Word: The New Testament and the Eucharist in the Early Church – Scott Hahn
  • A Biblical Walk Through the Mass – Edward Sri

Online Reading

Holy Hour Booklet – (Legal sized booklet for general use/Exposition and Benediction only)

Holy Hour for the Sanctification of Priests and for Vocations to the Priesthood (Personal) – Coming soon!

Holy Hour for Vocations (Congregational) – Coming soon!

Holy Hour of Reparation – Coming soon!

A Holy Hour for Life – Coming soon!

A Holy Hour for Peace – Coming soon!

The Diocese of Rapid City produced a book of Eucharistic hymn-based lessons for youth as part of their 2019-2020 Year of the Eucharist. Click to view.

Traditional

  • Adoro Te Devote  PDF
  • At the Lamb’s High Feast  PDF
  • Ave Verum Corpus  PDF
  • Ave Vivens Hostia
  • Father, We Thank Thee Who Has Planted   PDF
  • In This Sacrament, Sweet Jesus   PDF
  • Jesus, my Lord, my God, my all!  PDF
  • Lauda Sion Salvatorem
  • Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence  PDF
  • Lord Who At They First Eucharist  PDF
  • Now, My Tongue, the Mystery Telling  PDF
  • O Food to Pilgrims Given (O Esca Viatorum)  PDF
  • O Jesus Christ, Remember  PDF
  • O Lord, I Am Not Worthy  PDF
  • O Lord Jesus, I Adore Thee
  • O Sacrament Most Holy  PDF
  • O Sacrum Convivium
  • O Salutaris Hostia (part of Verbum Supernum) PDF
  • Pange Lingua
  • Panis Angelicus  PDF
  • Soul of My Savior  PDF
  • Sweet Sacrament Divine  PDF
  • Tantum Ergo  PDF

Contemporary

  • I am the Bread of Life
  • One Bread, One Body
  • Take and Eat
  • Pan de Vida