Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament?

[Toni]

Yes we have had one for many years. I love adoration and receive so much peace in my day from going.

 

[WILKM]

To me, adoration before the Blessed Sacrament is absolutely wonderful. If I could spend more time before the Blessed Sacrament, I would. I just get the most wonderful peaceful feeling being with Our Lord and with no distractions. I read somewhere about a chap who used to be in the church day in and day out staring at the Blessed Sacrament and eventually someone asked him what he is doing and he said, “I look at the Lord and the Lord looks at me”. I always think of that if I don’t have much to say at times when I visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament.

I’m trying to encourage my kids that whenever we pass a church, to pop in and say a quick prayer to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. They may not realise it now but in the future, when problems arise, they may need help and there’s nothing better than talking to Him in the Blessed Sacrament.

 

[cheddarsox]

When I was in high school I used to pop into chapel regularly for this. Into my adulthood, I would stop in churches to “say hey” daily. Even after I left the church, I would drop in for adoration.

But most churches are locked all the time now. I still try to go on Holy Thurs, but don’t make it every year. It stinks to have to make an apt with Christ. I think this is one of the saddest things ever. It was the last good contact I had with the church, and now it’s gone. It was the last good, real thing I felt I got from Catholicism.

cheddar