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70 What do we call devotion to Christ the Lord during the Holy Mass and after the celebration of the Holy Mass. This devotion is called adoration (or di latria—a Greek word that means adoration), because it is reserved God alone. 71 From where does Eucharistic devotion outside the Holy Mass originate? It comes from: 1 The Celebration of the Eucharist: the Sacrifice of the Holy Mass is truly the source and the goal of worship given to the Eucharist when it occurs outside the Holy Mass. This devotion is intimately linked to the Eucharistic Celebration. It is a natural extension of Holy Mass as well as being a devotion that is ordered to the Holy Mass. 2 From faith in the Real Presence of the Lord: this necessarily leads to an external and public manifestation of this same faith. 3 From the certainty that the Lord is with us always: “And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the world” (Mt 28, 20). 232

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