SUMMARY

1. At the Eucharist we should offer our own special prayers and thanksgivings for the people or things in which we are interested.

2. A white light in church shows that the Blessed Sacrament is kept nearby, and we should try and come to say our prayers there to Jesus during the week.  We are very close to Heaven there.

3. We should show our reverence and love to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament by genuflecting (going down on one knee) whenever we pass in front of the Blessed Sacrament.

4. In the service of Benediction we adore Jesus present in the Blessed Sacrament and receive his blessing.

Note

It is sometimes suggested that the Blessed Sacrament was not instituted in order to be adored.  That is true.  It is also true that the Bible was not written to be reverenced.  But just as we reverence the Bible because it is the Word of God, so we adore the Blessed Sacrament because that Sacrament is the Word made Flesh who dwells among us, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).

References

1. Oremus (2002) The Form and Order of Service that is to be performed and the Ceremonies that are to be observed in the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster, on Tuesday, the second day of June, 1953.  On-line version prepared by Simon Kershaw.  Available from:
http://www.oremus.org/liturgy/coronation/cor1953b.html  (Accessed 25 August 2010) (Internet).

2. Dix, G. (1945) The shape of the liturgy, Westminster: Dacre Press.