Still and Know: Exposition and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament- 7th June 2026

In a world that rarely slows down, our students were invited to do something countercultural, to be still, to be silent, and to simply be present before the Lord.
On a Sunday morning at 11am, before catechism class began, all our students gathered in the church for thirty minutes of Exposition and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. This special session was held in conjunction with the Church’s celebration of Corpus Christi, the feast that proclaims, with joy and reverence, that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist.

With the Blessed Sacrament exposed on the altar, the church fell into a quiet that is rare and precious. Fr Frederick animated the session with great care and sensitivity, guiding our students gently into the experience of adoration. Reflections specially written with the young in mind were projected during the session, words that spoke their language, met them where they are, and invited them to turn their hearts toward Jesus in the monstrance.

There were no performances, no activities, no noise. Just the soft presence of hundreds of young hearts, learning for perhaps the first time what it means to simply sit with God.

The Real Presence, Made Real to Them
Corpus Christi is one of the Church’s most profound celebrations, a feast that asks us not only to believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, but to adore it, to draw near, and to let that nearness change us. For many of our students, this session was their first real encounter with Eucharistic Adoration. For others, it deepened something already quietly growing.

In those thirty minutes, they were not studying about Jesus. They were with Him.

We live in an age that equates productivity with value and noise with life. What our students experienced that Sunday morning was something different, the ancient Christian practice of resting in God’s presence, without agenda, without words, without anything to show for it except a heart that has been touched.

We hope it planted in them a seed of contemplation that will grow quietly through the years and that whenever life grows loud and heavy, they will remember that there is a place they can return to, where He waits, and where stillness becomes grace.

By Julianna