Good Analogies for Adoration?

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Hi everyone, my whole purpose of posting this question up is to find some kind of explanation to what the act of adoration is all about. I personally have one analogy in mind, but I’m not too sure if it’s correct. I said that it is like going out into nature, some wide and big open space of some kind, and coming into the acknowledgment of our own “littleness,” if that is even a word, compared to everything else that is out there. And I was planning to say something like "that’s like what happens in Eucharistic Adoration, it is encountering the God of the Universe and coming to the acknowledgement that we aren’t so important, in a good way. Any thoughts would be appreciated. And please, no haterz 👍
 
Hi everyone, my whole purpose of posting this question up is to find some kind of explanation to what the act of adoration is all about.
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I think the experience is different for everyone but the common theme is encountering God. To praise, adore and thank Him for the love and mercy He has for all of us.

Eucharistic Adoration at my parish is 30 minutes of silence after the Exposition and 30 minutes of saying the Rosary, Benediction and Reposition.

During the first 30 minutes I either read the Gospels and picture myself in those times listening to Jesus teach or I just sit and talk to Him like He is sitting right next to me in the pew. I just tell Him about what I’m feeling, my problems, fears and anxieties and ask for His help. I ask Him for His grace so I can be more loving, kind, merciful, forgiving and patient with others…so that I can see others through His eyes.

Then I offer up the Rosary for sinners everywhere and all the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
 
I tend to think of it more like you do brad, where I am spending time with Jesus, since He really is present with us there.

I would do different things while there.

Sometimes I would pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet, or pray the Stations of the Cross, or pray different prayers from different prayer books/booklets that I brought with me.

Sometimes I would just read part of a Papal Encyclical and would then think on it, or read some Scripture passages, or sometimes I wouldn’t do anything at all except just talk to the Lord and pray to Him.

I would just do whatever I felt that the Spirit was leading me to do.

The church was really pretty that I would go to, so sometimes I would just walk around it and pray in front of the various statues that were there, and would light a votive for prayer intentions, too. 🙂
 
I think of it as looking in to the eyes of my Beloved. And Him smiling back at me.
 
I truly doubt that “good analogies” are needed to explain Eucharistic Adoration.

All that is really needed is the basic fact that God, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, is truly present in the Sacred (consecrated) Host.
 
Here’s a progression:

Someone is parting from you, and they give you a photograph for your wallet so that you can always remember them and keep them close at heart and think back on conversations you’ve had with them.

Instead of it simply reminding you of them, it actually and mysteriously makes them physically present.

Instead of it being a photograph, it’s something that doesn’t communicate the way the look at all, but which is nonetheless very common.

Instead of simply keeping the object on your person, you put it in a special room, and visit with it quite frequently.

Instead of thinking back on past conversations, you have new ones, since your friend is really there, even if they are hidden.
 
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