Attendance at adoration

[maryj]

We have Adoration m-th 6p.m. to 8p.m. on thursdays we begin a 24 hr. Adoration from 8a.m. to 8 a.m. friday. During lent with have 24 hour perpetual Adoration from ash wednesday to Holy Thursday. Our parish has 1800 families registered. We have some trouble with over night hours which we attribute to our weather here in northern minnesota and a very large senior population. Most hours have more than one adorerer. I have always had the same hour, but have recently picked up another hour in the middle of the night. There are four of us (including our associate pastor) who rotate that hour, we usually end up with two night hours during lent. It’s a great solution for those of us who work and can not commit to a weekly middle of the night holy hour. Keep praying, get your priests on board, we’ve been going strong for over 15 years. Praise Jesus!!

 

[CarrieH]

Our parish church doesn’t have adoration except on occasional holy days (i.e., the Feast of Corpus Christi), but one of the other churches in town has had perpetual adoration for several years now. They have a sign-up sheet and you can take the same hour every week, you can join a group which covers a certain hour (so you’re not obligated to be there every week), you can sign up on the substitute list, or you can just stop in whenever it suits you. They always have at least one adorer present, and they try to have two for each hour. The chapel is locked after hours for security reasons and you have to know the number sequence for the keypad in order to get in, or ring the doorbell for someone to let you in.

The cathedral downtown has adoration on First Fridays, as well. Attendance varies, but there are usually at least half a dozen people there when I have stopped in.