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The Flaw


I wrote "The Flaw" while praying before the Blessed Sacrament in the Adoration Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Little Italy, San Diego. As the founder of Adoration Servants, I was reflecting on the incredible gift of the Eucharist, the thousands of Catholic churches throughout the world where Our Lord waits for us, and the tools Adoration Servants provides to help people find Him, a troubling thought kept returning to my mind. 

The Flaw is not that Catholics cannot find Eucharistic Adoration. The Flaw is that too few believing Catholics desire to seek Him there. More than three centuries ago, Our Lord lamented this very indifference to St. Margaret Mary. Has much really changed? The Flaw

Roswell, New Mexico has Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration only a few minutes walk from the International UFO Museum. The small island of Key West has a Perpetual Adoration Chapel. Most likely, there is a church offering Eucharistic Adoration with Exposition within five or ten miles of where you are reading this right now. Yet what does it matter if the majority of believing Catholics have little desire to visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament? This, I believe, is one of the principal laments expressed by Our Lord in His revelations to St. Margaret Mary and at the very heart of devotion to the Sacred Heart.

I have been blessed to witness two major worldwide efforts to renew devotion to the Eucharist. In 2004, I founded Adoration Servants during Pope St. John Paul II's Year of the Eucharist (2004-2005). Great hopes accompanied that extraordinary year, yet as I recently reviewed its 20+ year old recommendations, I found myself asking: how much had truly changed?

Twenty years later, the Church completed the Three-Year Eucharistic Revival (2022-2025) with the same hope of renewing Eucharistic faith and devotion. I pray its lasting fruits will be greater. Yet I cannot help but wonder whether, unless we address what I call "The Flaw," we may once again find ourselves asking the same question years from now.

This is one reason devotion to the Sacred Heart remains so important. Our Lord did not merely ask that we honor His Sacred Heart; He asked that we make reparation for the indifference and coldness shown toward Him, especially in the Holy Eucharist. If "The Flaw" is real, then reparation is not merely a pious devotion—it is part of the remedy.

The Three-Year Eucharistic Revival was inspired by a survey reporting that approximately 70% of Catholics do not believe in the Real Presence. Yet similar surveys have produced essentially the same results for decades.

The bishops are to be commended for responding. But we must ask whether this statistic identifies the actual problem or merely a symptom. The Sacred Heart reveals the real problem. The real problem is not the Catholics who do not believe.

The real problem is that among those who do believe, far too many are lukewarm toward the Eucharist. To illustrate what I mean, I suggest that of the 30% who believe in the Real Presence, perhaps 70% are nevertheless lukewarm. They believe Jesus is truly present, yet they seldom think to visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament—whether they are in Little Italy, in Key West, or in their own hometown. If I am even close to being right, this should bring tears to all our eyes. It did bring tears to my eyes and made me realize for all I thought I did to promote Eucharistic in 20 years, I should have done so much more and those tears made me all but abandon my computer consulting business to, God willing, spend the rest of my life dedicated to Eucharistic Adoration.

This chart below demonstrates the flaw. The average Catholic parish has more than enough people to support Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration but due to the flaw does not have enough people doing so. Now, it can reasonably be argued that most people are just too busy doing other things, including noble efforts. The short answer, according to a letter of St Margaret Mary where she speaks of a diocese where even though they admitted devotion to the Eucharist was important they argued they had many other noble efforts that took priority. Margaret Mary wrote the Lord told her those "other noble priorities" were not bearing the fruits they should be because they put those ahead of Jesus. The Flaw Statistics
This is the next day follow up to originally writing “The Flaw” section while in San Diego.

I gave a Eucharistic talk in a San Diego parish the day after I wrote “The Flaw” section, and the day after.A lady who heard my talk from the prior day was ecstatic because she is going to Pittsburgh the next week. She said my talk inspired her to spend more time in Eucharistic Adoration and she is planning her trip to visit a number of Chapels having Adoration while she is in town.She used the Adoration Search site.

This is yet another follow up months after originally writing "The Flaw."

 During a "Eucharistic Mission of Love" retreat is Florida I was asked by a priesta at the parish to demo the Adoration Search website and mobile app. It was May 2026 and he told me the "snowbirds" would be leaving soon. Snowbirds are people who basically spend their winters in Florida and go back to their home states for the summer. Afterwards, I came upon a table of 4 or 5 attendees, and they indeed were snowbirds. Each was using Adorationsearch.org to invetsigate Adoraiton chapels in thier home towns and expressing excitement that they knew where they could adore when they got home.

If we build it, they will come. But we must also acknowledge "The Flaw", and actively address it.