Adoration - How do you pray?

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I’m going to be spending one hour weekly in Adoration.

This is new for me. How do you all pray when in Adoration? Do you have special prayers or do you just sit and get into mental prayer, reflection and the like?

List prayers you pray.
 
Well, pretty much, you do whatever you want to do. I mean, you’re going to hang out in private with your best friend. What do you do when you’re alone with your good friends?

My usual routine:
Kneel and pray whatever comes to mind for 5 minutes.
Liturgy of the Hours.
Rosary.
Couple chapters out of the bible.
Other reading (currently True Devotion to Mary).

Finding people to pray with and doing worship songs is always nice if you can, too.

You are truly blest to be able to worship our lord so personally!

Josh
 
Diane,

You are SO blessed to be able to do this. What an awesome experience is Adoration. I don’t have a routine for Adoration. As Josh said, it’s time spent alone with my best friend. You know how you can be with someone you truly love, and enjoy each other without saying a word? That’s often how I spend some of my Adoration. I clear my mind. I don’t pray, I just “Be still, and know that He is God.” Just being in His presence like that is such a blessing.

Sometimes we talk quietly to each other. Sometimes He talks and I listen. Other times I talk and He listens. He’s really good at listening. Sometimes I will aproach the Monstrance and just kneel in front of Him. This is a very powerful experience for me. His presence is SO strong, that the Holy Spirit just blows through me. I LOVE IT!
 
I use a book called ‘One Hour With Jesus’ a lot. There are 2 volumes I believe. I also like to read ‘Imitation of Christ’ and my Bible. A lot of times I just kneel quietly and listen. There really is no need for words.
 
Ok, so what you are all telling me is that spiritual reading is a good thing to do in adoration? I wondered about this.

What prompted my routine (which hasn’t started yet) is that I volunteered to adopt a priest to pray for through Opus Sanctorum Angelorum (Work of the Holy Angels) and adoration is one thing you can do. The sisters running it look for committment to pray for a priest one year and they give a list of things you can do. All you do is send an email with your name and address and they send you someone to pray for, or you can choose your own priest or bishop or seminarian.

So, that is what is prompting it. I don’t do stations of the cross, but I will be doing it weekly for my priest too.

opusangelorum.org/Spirituality/Spiritualadoption.html
 
I don’t have a holy hour formally, but in recent months I’ve become addicted to the True Presence.

In the beginning I just felt drawn, and I would do as some suggest…I brought stacks of books, spiritual reading, etc. Then I came across something that said that Bl. Fulton Sheen used to write his homilies in Adoration.

Well, as I am an aspiring writer crippled by writer’s block, I took the hint and I invested in some paper!

I actually learned a few things and started to realize that my ideas weren’t really coming from me but they were truths being spoken to me by our Lord.

I was led to a Spiritual Director (SD) and through a process, I now have 3 journals which come with me to adoration.

In one journal, which is from some dream interpretation in which we discern what Jesus is telling me, I write a journal response. This has morphed into a form of letters ot Jesus. I don’t always feel like writing but sometimes I feel prompted and I’m amazed at what I tell him.

I pull out the other journal if Jesus is speaking to me. (this is hard to describe but I know it happens to a LOT of people). Sometimes it’s just a phrase, sometimes it starts with one thing and just goes on…I write until the words don’t come anymore.

Sometimes I just sit there, kneel there…pray Divine Mercy, sometimes I come into his presence and just cry my heart out.

Every day is a different experience.

Here is my advice to you: Bring a Bible and a notebook or if you for some reason are drawn to a particular book when you go, just grab it. Spend some time in prayer to start out. Sit back and just enjoy the Lord’s company. If you have any concerns about ANYTHING tell him about it. If you have nothing pressing on your mind, just sit still and absorb the fact that you are in God’s presence.

If possible, try to spend at least 5 minutes with Jesus every day…you will be amazed at what happens to you after you begin!

Adoration is the best-kept secret of the Church and it almost brings me to tears to find the churches which don’t offer it or have it for only a couple hours per week or per month or not at all. There is true spiritual poverty in those parishes as they do not have this great blessing.
 
How do you show your reverence to our LORD who is present in the Adoration Chapel?
 
10 mins settling into the presence of the Lord forgetting the world and realising He is there…
20 min Evening Prayer
30 min Rosary in petition and thanksgiving
 
I usually bring the writings of some saint and read a bit and then meditate on it. Even if it’s just one sentence from the book. I try to dig deep into what I’m reading, I ask Jesus to explain it to me, to give me lights, and to make me understand it. I also make sure to say the rosary. That way in one holy hour I’ve had contact with Jesus, Mary, and a saint. I also journal. Mainly writing down thoughts about what I read, or lights I receive while contemplating the rosary, or things that bothered me about my day, or how I feel, or how I think Jesus met me that day, basically whatever comes to mind. I save the journals and then read back over them a few months later. It’s really interesting! Of course it’s also a good idea to just kneel or sit there and contemplate Jesus in the Eucharist…you can learn so much about him just by contemplating his presence there!
 
The Lords prayer.
Hail Mary.
Sometimes the Creed.

Thanks for another week.
Thanks for things currently going on.
Request His guidance in my life.

Then I usually read: The Bible, or some else appropriate. Currently Volume 1 of “Faith of the Early Fathers”.
 
Thanks for sharing all the ideas. I must say that journaling is something I would never have thought of. Good idea because I too, am a writer of sorts.

In fact, I think as I write. My thoughts are incomplete in my head until they begin to flow on paper and get revised. This is my brains way of processing those half-baked thoughts.
 
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