Eucharistic Adoration: down the hall, past the bathrooms

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Our parish has Eucharistic Adoration once a year for 1 hour after Holy Thursday Mass. We don’t have a separate chapel, and instead of using a small corner of the church like I’ve seen some churches do, or leaving a monstrance on the altar, the priest and deacons process the hosts out of the church (in the ciboriums), down a few halls, past the bathrooms and into a meeting room at the end of one hallway where there is a table set up to place the hosts on and a few chairs. Is this kind of procession and set-up allowed? Walking past the bathrooms just kills me. It seems very disrespectful. (I’ve never been in the room for Adoration so I’m not sure if a host is placed in a monstrance or not. I don’t even know if we have a monstrance…).
 
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Elzee:
Our parish has Eucharistic Adoration once a year for 1 hour after Holy Thursday Mass. We don’t have a separate chapel, and instead of using a small corner of the church like I’ve seen some churches do, or leaving a monstrance on the altar, the priest and deacons process the hosts out of the church (in the ciboriums), down a few halls, past the bathrooms and into a meeting room at the end of one hallway where there is a table set up to place the hosts on and a few chairs. Is this kind of procession and set-up allowed? Walking past the bathrooms just kills me. It seems very disrespectful. (I’ve never been in the room for Adoration so I’m not sure if a host is placed in a monstrance or not. I don’t even know if we have a monstrance…).
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That is correct the Blessed Sacrament should be removed from the sanctuary, the taberncale opened and the lamp put out. A short procession is good. What bothers me most is on Holy Thursday everyone comes to have their feet washed, Mass takes two hours. Yes, not only 12 but anyone and everyone! To start with Father had someone wash his feet first! I don’t get that one. Then when Mass is over about 50 people out of the 600 or 700 that were at Mass stay for adoration. Within 15 minutes that number drops to about 25-30 and after a half hour to about 15 and goes down hill from there. Adoration does continue until midnight sometimes there is only one or two people during the last hours.

We had planned to take the RCIA group to three other churches this year between the end of Mass and midnight as sort of an experience of Catholic unity in this great Sacrament. We found that two of the other churches didn’t even have adoration after the Mass and the third only for about 10 -15 minutes after Mass before the priest locked up the Church.
 
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That is correct the Blessed Sacrament should be removed from the sanctuary, the taberncale opened and the lamp put out. A short procession is good.
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We have our Holy Thursday adoration in the Church hall, which is set up like a garden for the occaision. Candles, plants, white satin. The attendance is definitely top heavy (100 or so right after mass, then an average of 5-10 until 11:30pm) We close with the Office of Readings for Good Friday, which I love. Very, very nice way to spend Holy Thursday with our Lord.
 
Is Holy Thursday Adoration the modern equivalent of 40 hours devotion I remember from my youth?

Mike
 
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travellinmike:
Is Holy Thursday Adoration the modern equivalent of 40 hours devotion I remember from my youth?

Mike
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I don’t think so, because this adoration is supposed to end at midnight. I think the 40 hours can be any 40 hours, and is supposed to echo the time Jesus spent in the tomb from the crucifixion on Good Friday to the Resurrection Sunday Morning. The Holy Thursday adoration is our effort to “spend an hour with Him” in the Garden of Gethsemane. Very, very special and wonderful time.

amy
 
Our parish remains open all night on Holy Thursday. Prior to the day, we have people signup for the an hour of adoration throughout the night. People readily come from the entire south side of our city. Many churches even rent buses to provide for all the pilgrims that do the novena of visiting churches on Holy thursday. My family has been doing it since I was in 3rd grade and now our college age sons always return to do it with us as well. They look forward to this tradition. However, our tabernacle is on a side altar, not in another part of our parish complex.
 
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I guess I didn’t explain it very well…I go to Adoration every Friday morning at another church in town since ours only has it once a year. I’ve just never been to the one at our church after Holy Thursday Mass.
 
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