Adoration appropriatness

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What is appropriate to do at adoration?

I’m asking as a general question, but to get things rolling, I can give an example: Is it appropriate to read your bible during adoration?
 
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mvinca:
What is appropriate to do at adoration?

I’m asking as a general question, but to get things rolling, I can give an example: Is it appropriate to read your bible during adoration?
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Absolutely! In fact, I can’t think of a better time or place for meditation on the Sacred Scriptures than in Jesus’ own presence.

And you can pray any prayers you like or read any meditative material you wish. All that is asked is that you do it silently.
 
Adoration is your time with God. Anything is appropriate, read your scriptures, pray your prayers including the rosary etc…sit and meditate, have a silent conversation with Him, open your soul or do nothing other be in the presence of the Lord. There is no set format for adoration…An hour is usually the prescribed time for adoration but even a snippet of time spent in adoration is worth the visit if that is all you have available. God is happy to have you there. And as the previous reply suggested, do it in silence.

God bless you and you will reap the rewards and graces offered when you come to adore the Lord.
 
I have Adoration once a week in the chapel at the hospital. It’s great because I’m usually the one on there, so it’s just me and Jesus.

While I’m there, I usually do the Stations of the Cross, pray 5 decades of the Rosary and spend some time just talking with Jesus. It’s a great time for me, and truly one of the highlights of my week.

Scout :tiphat:
 
I think I may start going to adoration - our parish has it on Fridays. I’m a little shy about getting started though.

My sister’s parish has perpetual adoration. My sister is a saint. She really is. She is a working mother of six and manages her home and career effectively, effeciently and lovingly. She is also my ‘mother’ ever since ours passed away when I was 21.

Anyway, it would have been easy for someone like her to say she didn’t have time for adoration.

Instead, she signed up to be there once a week between midnight and 1AM. Why this time? * Because she knew she would always have time to do it then. * She wanted to avoid the possibility of an unplanned ‘mom’ emergency during waking hours - and make certain she could always keep her date with Him.

Thanks for listening to be brag about my sister.!!!
 
Sometimes I pray a Rosary, sometimes I just pour my heart out to Him in spontaneous prayer, and sometimes I just bask in His Presence 🙂
 
Little Mary:
I think I may start going to adoration - our parish has it on Fridays. I’m a little shy about getting started though.
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I’m the same way, shy. I decided to go one day, I was still unsure about the whole thing honestly, everything is still so new to me right now, I haven’t even had the Eucharist yet. Anyway, as soon as I got out of my car and was walking toward the chapel, I started crying. The tears just kept coming. I sat in that chapel and cried for about an hour. The Lord was letting me know he was there, and he knew everything! It was beautiful. An older woman there, who probably thought I was having a meltdown, got up and came over to me and put her arm around me and said some words of comfort and then left me alone with Him.

I have to get back there. I haven’t gone back because I have been afraid that I will just cry the whole time again. That’s a stupid excuse, but I felt like I was ruining things for everyone else there. I guess I need to get over that.

Anyway, just go. It is an amazing time to spend with Him. 😃
 
I once did a long shift (for a semi-perpetual adoration) in the middle of the night, I was alone. I just sat and prayed for the first half hour and some other times too, but it was hard to just keep doing this for the whole shift. Is anything I did here not okay -
At one point I got up and started walking around the church. I was not always facing the Host.
I heard some noises and got freaked out because I thought there was someone else in the church. I tried to go up to the choir loft to see if anyone was there, also had a look in some other dark parts of the church.
I went and read some of the bulletins, Catholic newspapers etc. at the back of the church.
Around the last half hour of my shift I was checking the clock every 5 minutes, anxious for my replacement to arrive so that I could go home and sleep.
 
Little Mary:
I think I may start going to adoration - our parish has it on Fridays. I’m a little shy about getting started though.

My sister’s parish has perpetual adoration. My sister is a saint. She really is. She is a working mother of six and manages her home and career effectively, effeciently and lovingly. She is also my ‘mother’ ever since ours passed away when I was 21.

Anyway, it would have been easy for someone like her to say she didn’t have time for adoration.

Instead, she signed up to be there once a week between midnight and 1AM. Why this time? *Because she knew she would always have time to do it then. *She wanted to avoid the possibility of an unplanned ‘mom’ emergency during waking hours - and make certain she could always keep her date with Him.

Thanks for listening to be brag about my sister.!!!
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the reason she has the time to meet all her other demands is that she has her priorities right and gives that first hour to Jesus. we should learn from her.
 
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puzzleannie:
the reason she has the time to meet all her other demands is that she has her priorities right and gives that first hour to Jesus. we should learn from her.
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Sorry but I’m still puzzled by this signing up thing.
If I have time and decide to go to our Eucharist Adoration Chapel I just go and spend time there. I don’t need to sign anything or get permission.
 
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thistle:
Sorry but I’m still puzzled by this signing up thing.
If I have time and decide to go to our Eucharist Adoration Chapel I just go and spend time there. I don’t need to sign anything or get permission.
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I think there has to be at least one person guaranteed in the Chapel at all times - so as long as they have one signed on to the roster for each time slot they don’t need more.

By the way flopfoot, if you don’t mind my asking, which church do you go to for Eucharistic Adoration? I haven’t seen one near me that has it permanently and it’d be nice if there was somewhere nearish that I could go if I felt so inclined.
 
My parish has adoration every Thursday from 9 am to 9 pm. I have been thinking about going and I’m glad someone asked about it. And by the way, your sister DOES sound wonderful - a great role model for all of us!
 
Is it okay to read stuff like books by Scott Hahn or Karl Keating?
 
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LilyM:
I think there has to be at least one person guaranteed in the Chapel at all times - so as long as they have one signed on to the roster for each time slot they don’t need more.

By the way flopfoot, if you don’t mind my asking, which church do you go to for Eucharistic Adoration? I haven’t seen one near me that has it permanently and it’d be nice if there was somewhere nearish that I could go if I felt so inclined.
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St Thomas Becket’s at Lewisham, near the cul-de-sac in Thomas St (comes off West St which comes off Parramatta Rd). Right near Lewisham Station (north side of the station). They have adoration beginning Friday 1pm and finishing Sunday 5pm every weekend, going all through the night (so not exactly perpetual, but still pretty good). I’m normally there either Friday or Saturday night, sometime shortly after midnight.

Can’t believe I’m giving directions to someone on the forums… when I first signed up here I thought there was no-one from Australia let alone Sydney here. Turns out there are a few of us (-:

Thistle, when places have a sort of perpetual adoration (or in fact a completely perpetual adoration), they have a roster of people who go at the same time every week, so that they can be sure of having at least 1 person in the church at all times. This doesn’t mean that everyone who goes is rostered - anyone can turn up - but if you find that you tend to go at the same time each week you may want to volunteer for the rosters, it always helps to have reserves. I’m a reserve myself, only been called in to fill an official slot once, other times I just go when I want. Another job of the people on the rosters is to sort of keep the church safe, since it’s being left open all night. Some people at Lewisham lock the doors and if anyone wants to come in they can ring a doorbell and the rostered person will let them in.

Still no-one has answered my question on appropriateness (post #9 I think). Can anyone help?
 
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Flopfoot:
Can’t believe I’m giving directions to someone on the forums… when I first signed up here I thought there was no-one from Australia let alone Sydney here. Turns out there are a few of us (-:

Still no-one has answered my question on appropriateness (post #9 I think). Can anyone help?
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Yeah, there are just a couple of us Aussies 🙂 Adoration sounds good, I may check it out some time. Glad it’s near the railway station. I live near Central Station :cool: so I don’t have a car - can’t say I’ve missed having one either.

I think there’s Tridentine Latin Mass somewhere in your neighbourhood too. Being born post Vatican 2 I’ve never actually been to one but I might go just to see what all the fuss is about.

As for your question - doesn’t sound like you’re doing anything wrong, I’m sure it’s hard to keep awake at that time of night. Maybe bring additional reading material with you so that you’re not quite so bored? Even some suitable music as long as it’s not AC/DC or anything :bigyikes:
 
Hmm, my dad studied Latin, wonder if he would understand what they’re saying at a Latin Mass. Not that I’ve ever really wanted to go to one of them, they’re more before my time. But what do you mean by ‘in my neighbourhood’? I don’t actually live anywhere near Lewisham - I live in the northen area, a suburb called Eastwood, know where that is? That’s one reason I go in the night time, because there’s no traffic and I can drive south much quicker. For you it would be easier to go in the daytime cause bloomin’ Cityrail doesn’t run trains after midnight. Although, you can actually walk to Lewisham from Central, I did it once (I was in the city cause I goto UNSW), took an hour to get there.

PS. AC/DC is not even close to being the least appropriate music (for Adoration) that I have in my collection. But, I don’t think it would be right to bring a stereo to Adoration anyway. They have a bible they keep in the front pew (or maybe second from the front) for people going to Adoration who want something to read. But for me, reading the bible is harder to concentrate on than praying at Adoration while I’m tired anyway. Thanks for the suggestions though.
 
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Flopfoot:
Hmm, my dad studied Latin, wonder if he would understand what they’re saying at a Latin Mass. Not that I’ve ever really wanted to go to one of them, they’re more before my time. But what do you mean by ‘in my neighbourhood’? I don’t actually live anywhere near Lewisham - I live in the northen area, a suburb called Eastwood, know where that is? That’s one reason I go in the night time, because there’s no traffic and I can drive south much quicker. For you it would be easier to go in the daytime cause bloomin’ Cityrail doesn’t run trains after midnight. Although, you can actually walk to Lewisham from Central, I did it once (I was in the city cause I goto UNSW), took an hour to get there.

PS. AC/DC is not even close to being the least appropriate music (for Adoration) that I have in my collection. But, I don’t think it would be right to bring a stereo to Adoration anyway. They have a bible they keep in the front pew (or maybe second from the front) for people going to Adoration who want something to read. But for me, reading the bible is harder to concentrate on than praying at Adoration while I’m tired anyway. Thanks for the suggestions though.
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Sorry floppy, I did think you must live closer to Lewisham - it shows real dedication to travel at night just to attend Adoration. Anyways, TLM is in Maternal Heart Chapel in Thomas St Lewisham, according to the internet, and we all know how reliable THAT is :rolleyes:

As for music, if you have a discman or mp3 player going with some suitable music (religious or classical?) I don’t see how that would be inappropriate. Can’t be worse than the organ I hear every Sunday 😃

Likewise something other than the Bible to read. I think it’d be a lot better than falling asleep or being bored.
 
At one point I got up and started walking around the church. I was not always facing the Host.
I heard some noises and got freaked out because I thought there was someone else in the church. I tried to go up to the choir loft to see if anyone was there, also had a look in some other dark parts of the church.
I went and read some of the bulletins, Catholic newspapers etc. at the back of the church.
Around the last half hour of my shift I was checking the clock every 5 minutes, anxious for my replacement to arrive so that I could go home and sleep.
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You didn’t say how long the shift was but it sounds like it may have been a bit too much for you. Nothing wrong with that. When I go, it’s usually for an hour. If I want to stay longer, I will but I am not waiting for someone to relieve me. Perhaps that committment is too much for you right now, especially because it is in the middle of the night. You might guarantee yourself a more successful visit with Christ by scheduling a more manageable amount of time with him .
 
Shift was 2 and a half hours - 1:30am to 4am. I didn’t ask for that time - I just told the people who run Adoration that I could be a reserve for Friday night / Saturday early morning, and that was the time slot they needed me to fill. They probably don’t have many volunteers for that time of night so that they can break up that time into 2 separate time slots.
 
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