text: But that's not just looking at it; it's also meditation and contemplation. No problem with that.
  A local young priest did just that at an adoration session after Mass - silent contemplation. The PP however told him he had to have Litanies and Blessed Sacrament hymns as well!
  Maybe one reason why Eucharistic processions dropped out of favour with most Catholics in the 1970s is because they realised  that V2 was challenging them to have a deeper understanding of the Real Presence. Up to then, the processions were seen as the peak expression of the real presence (something not intended by the Mediaeval prelates who came up with the practice).
  BTW it is thought that Pope John Paul II wanted to declare that Mary was physically present in the Eucharist at the Consecration, not just Jesus. Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict) told him that that was theologically unsupportable. Benedict clearly has a better understanding of the Real Presence - not surprising given his theologian background.