Posted here. Interesting stuff, including, I think, this rather insightful comment by a French bishop:

Eucharistic Adoration is notably mentioned in numbers 41, 66, 67 and 75.
We can see that, in our countries, Eucharistic Adoration is very taken by the young Catholic generations. For these young generations, this is not a rediscovery, it is, purely and simply, a discovery.

1) How can the mode of Eucharistic Adoration in the young be explained? Because these generations cannot live without images. In looking at the Host, certainly, we do not see Christ, in his Divinity nor in his humanity but we fix our eyes on the most direct sign of his real presence.
2) What is the great advantage of Eucharistic Adoration? It is that Christian prayer escaped the trap of introspection. Eucharistic Adoration is lived face to face.
3) Could Eucharistic Adoration pose a threat? Eucharistic Adoration risks being lived in an individualistic way and not very ecclesial. Second danger: the absence of words. Because young people need to hear the expression of faith and to express their faith. Third threat: neglecting the other ways of real presence, even if somewhat different, of the Risen Christ.
4) Eucharistic Adoration can lead and lead again to Eucharistic action.
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