Do you have a favorite quote on Eucharistic Adoration?

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Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread. Luke 24:35
 
Just got back from my hour. I forget which saint said it when asked what they do at adoration, but I tend to follow the advice,

“I look at Him,
He looks at me.”

Blessings,
Stephie
 
“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament. . . . There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that: Death.

J.R.R. Tolkien
 
It’s from a hymn aquinas wrote - Tantum Ergo Sacramentum. You’ve almost certainly heard it, it’s pretty common. That line roughly reads “faith will supply the defects of the senses.”
 
…as they went on their way, he entered a village; and a woman named Martha received him into her house. 39And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. 40But Martha was distracted with much serving; and she went to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” 41But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things; 42one thing is needful.j Mary has chosen the good portion, which shall not be taken away from her.”
-Gospel of Luke
 
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There is a story about adoration from St. John Vianney that I love:
"…This was an old peasant who every day went into the church before going to his labour in the fields, and again when he returned. There he used to remain for a long while quite motionless and mute, with his eyes fixed on the Tabernacle.

" Pere Chaffangeon, what do you say to Our Lord during your visits ? " M. Vianney asked him one day, surprised at never seeing his lips move.

“Nothing. I look at Him, and He looks at me.”
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That’s the quote I always use. I knew it was from saint. Didn’t know which one. Thank you, St. John Vianney.

And thank you @AveOTheotokos for the info.

Blessings,
Stephie
 
littlesoul said:
that’s beautiful…
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It really is. It get’s me every time I find myself distracted or “talking” too much during prayer at adoration. It helps bring me back to embracing the silent gaze between one and their beloved.
 
The Mass itself provides all that a Catholic needs sacramentally and spiritually.

Eucharistic adoration, perpetual or not, is a doctrinal, theological, and spiritual step backward, not forward. Fr McBrien

Not to be a wise guy…but adoration is not in my Catholic devotional practices or faith tradition… so this quote would be favorite.
 
I seem to recall that there is a need for both public praise and honor (Mass), and private prayer. That quote doesn’t seem to imply that.

Blessings,
Stephie
 
godisgood77 said:
The Mass itself provides all that a Catholic needs sacramentally and spiritually.

Eucharistic adoration, perpetual or not, is a doctrinal, theological, and spiritual step backward, not forward. Fr McBrien

Not to be a wise guy…but adoration is not in my Catholic devotional practices or faith tradition… so this quote would be favorite.
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Not to be a wise guy…but a controversial, dissenting, liberal priest who
  1. wrote a USCCB condemned book that taught ideas such as:
  • that Catholics may, in good conscience, believe that Jesus could have sinned
  • that Mary may not have given birth as a virgin
  • that issues such as women’s ordination, homosexuality, and contraception are open for discussion
  1. was a paid consultant on The Davinci Code
  2. wrote for the National Catholic Reporter
  3. openly criticized popes
  4. knocked a centuries-old devotion praised by saints upon saints
is not really someone who’s opinion has any relevance to me… so this quote would be my least favorite.

If Adoration is not in your Catholic devotional practices or faith tradition, then that is your opinion and you are entitled to it.

However, for you to come to this thread, where people are having an uplifting discussion about one of their important spiritual devotions, and then to post something that serves only to tear down and insult their devotion and spiritual progress is uncharitable, unproductive, and insulting.

I am saddened by and feel sorry for you both that you felt the need to write and share such negativity with others, and I will be praying for both you and Fr. McBrien next time I am at Adoration.

The Mass may provide all that we need, but I seek not to give God only the bare minimum sacramentally and spiritually; I instead desire to spend as much time as possible with Him, for He is our Beloved.

Lord, let the glowing force of Your Love
blind me to all things below heaven,
so that I may die for love for Your love,
who thought me worthy to die
for love of my love.
Amen.
 
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Fair enough… your opinion is noted. Not my intention to drag down… simply to express a different viewpoint. My apologies, in my haste I probably provoked your response.

In my view, the Mass is not the bare minimum … if there was nothing else, that would be more than we could ever fathom fully.

My thought in posting was that many impressionable folks my read and join this discussion. With that, I believe it’s important to vocalize that there is nothing wrong with being Catholic and not indulging in adoration… for many there are other devotional practices that are more meaningful.

I take solace in Matthew ‘For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them."… and am with God when we gather…

Either way, thanks for your prayers.
 
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Eucharistic Adoration is the most necessary mission to the Church, which has even more
need of prayerful souls than of powerful preachers or men of eloquence. (St. Peter Julian Eymard)
 
On prayer:

I say very simply to God what I wish to say, without composing beautiful sentences, and he always understands me.

-Saint Therese of the Child Jesus
 
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“You can come to me (in Eucharistic Adoration) at any moment, at any time; I want to speak to you and I desire to grant you grace!”

-Jesus speaking to St. Faustina
 
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The love of God and neighbor, the greatest commandment, is expressed in, and the fruit of, Eucharistic worship.

John Paul Ii
 
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